Cleanliness of personnel (Repealed)

(a) All employees shall wear clean outer garments, maintain good personal hygiene, including having clean fingernails, and conform to necessary hygienic practices during all working hours. (b) All employees shall wash their hands thoroughly with soap and warm water in an adequate hand-washing facility before starting work, after using the toilet facilities, and as often as may be additionally necessary to remove soil and contamination. Employees shall dry their hands by paper towels. The hands of all employees shall be kept clean while engaged in the handling of food and food contact surfaces. Food employees shall minimize bare hand contact with ready-to-eat foods. (c) Hair nets, head bands, caps, or other effective hair restraints shall be used by male and female employees engaged in the preparation, processing, or packaging of food products when necessary to keep hair from falling into food or onto food contact surfaces. (d) Employees shall not use tobacco in any form or eat while engaged in food preparation, processing, or packaging, or while in equipment and utensil washing or food preparation and processing areas. (e) No person known to be affected with any disease in a communicable form, or known to be a carrier of such disease, or known to be afflicted with boils, infected wounds, open sores, or known to have acute respiratory infection shall be permitted to work in any area of a food establishment in any capacity in which there is a likelihood of such person contaminating food or food contact surfaces with pathogenic organisms; and no person known or believed to be affected with any such disease or condition shall be employed in such an area or capacity while so affected. (f) The management of any food establishment, when it knows or has reason to believe that any employee has contracted any disease in a communicable form transmissible through food or has become a carrier of such disease, shall immediately notify the local director of health and the Department of Consumer Protection.