Nevada Administrative Code|Section 446.054 - Person in charge: Duties regarding conditional employees

                                                
 446.054. Person in charge: Duties regarding conditional employees 
 
1. The person in charge shall ensure that a conditional employee: 
 
(a) Who exhibits or reports a symptom or who reports a diagnosed illness as provided in this chapter is prohibited from becoming a food employee until the conditional employee meets the relevant criteria for the specific symptoms or diagnosed illness as provided in this chapter.
 
(b) Who will work as a food employee in a food establishment that serves a highly susceptible population and who reports a history of exposure as provided in this chapter is prohibited from becoming a food employee until the conditional employee meets the relevant criteria provided in this chapter.
 
(c) Who has been exposed by attending or working in a setting where there is a confirmed disease outbreak or who is living in the same household as, and has knowledge about, a person who works in or attends a setting where there is a confirmed disease outbreak, or who is living in the same household as, and has knowledge about, a person diagnosed with an illness caused by: 
 
(1) Norovirus within 48 hours after the last exposure;
 
(2) Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli or Shigella species within 3 days after the last exposure;
 
(3) Salmonella typhi within 14 days after the last exposure; or
 
(4) The hepatitis A virus within 30 days after the last exposure, is prohibited from becoming a food employee until the conditional employee meets the relevant criteria provided in this chapter. 
 
2. As used in this section: 
 
(a) "Confirmed disease outbreak" means a foodborne disease outbreak in which laboratory analysis of appropriate specimens identifies a causative agent and an epidemiological analysis implicates the food as the source of the illness.
 
(b) "Foodborne disease outbreak" means the occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food.
 
 Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R069-10, eff. 12-18-2013
 
NRS 439.200, 446.940