W. Va. Code R. § 61-23A-15

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 49, December 6, 2024

Section 61-23A-15 - Employees

15.1. All employees shall thoroughly wash and sanitize their hands and forearms before starting work. All employees shall wash and sanitize hands during work hours as often as necessary to remove soil and contamination, after working with raw fish products, before handling ready-to-eat products, after visiting the toilet room, after using tobacco, or after eating or drinking.

15.2. Effective hair and beard restraints shall be used by employees who process, prepare or handle food to keep exposed hair and beards from food or food contact surfaces.

15.3. No person shall use tobacco, eat, or drink in food receiving, processing, packaging, storage or handling areas.

15.4. Employees shall maintain a high degree of personal cleanliness and shall conform to good hygienic practices during all working periods. Personal cleanliness includes clean clothing.

15.5. Employees shall remove all insecure jewelry, and shall remove from the hands and forearms any jewelry that cannot be properly sanitized.

15.6. Employees who have an illness, skin infections or communicable forms of infection, including but not limited to cuts, burns, boils, abrasions, wounds, open lesions or bandages on the hands, face or forearms shall not perform work activities in which there is a likelihood of contaminating food, food packaging or food contact surfaces until the medical condition is corrected. It is the duty of the supervisor to ask employees about such medical conditions and the duty of the employee to report them prior to the start of each workshift.

W. Va. Code R. § 61-23A-15