189A.6 - HEALTH EXAMINATION OF EMPLOYEES.
189A.6 HEALTH EXAMINATION OF EMPLOYEES.
The operator of any establishment shall require all employees of
such establishment to have a health examination by a physician and a
certified health certificate for each employee shall be kept on file
by the operator. The secretary may at any time require an employee
of an establishment to submit to a health examination by a physician.
No person suffering from any communicable disease, including any
communicable skin disease, and no person with infected wounds, and no
person who is a "carrier" of a communicable disease shall be
employed in any capacity in an establishment. No person shall work
or be employed in or about any establishment during the time in which
a communicable disease exists in the home in which such person
resides unless such person has obtained a certificate from a
physician to the effect that no danger of public contagion or
infection will result from the employment of such person in such
establishment. Every person employed by an establishment and engaged
in direct physical contact with meat or poultry products during its
preparation, processing, or storage, shall be clean in person, wear
clean washable outer garments and a suitable cap or other head
covering used exclusively in such work. Only persons specifically
designated by the operator of an establishment shall be permitted to
touch meat or poultry products with their hands, and the persons so
designated shall keep their hands scrupulously clean. Section History: Early Form
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 189A.6]