PDFWAC 246-215-02205
Employee health—Reportable history of illness.
(1) foodemployees and conditional employees shall report to the person in charge if they:
(a) Have diarrhea, vomiting, sore throat with fever, or jaundice (yellow skin or eyes), except as specified under WAC 246-215-02235;
(b) Have a lesion containing pus such as a boil or infected wound that is open or draining and is:
(i) On the hands or wrist;
(ii) On exposed portions of the arms; or
(iii) On other parts of the body, unless the lesion is covered by a dry, durable, tight-fitting bandage; or
(c) Have an illness diagnosed by a health practitioner as due to an infection with:
(i) Norovirus;
(ii) Hepatitis A virus;
(iii) Shigella spp.;
(iv) shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli;
(v) Salmonella Typhi (Typhoid fever); or
(vi) Salmonella (nontyphoidal).
(2) In addition to the reporting in subsection (1) of this section, foodemployees and conditional employees in a foodestablishment serving a highly susceptible population shall report to the person in charge if they:
(a) Have consumed or prepared food implicated in a confirmed disease outbreak;
(b) Have attended or worked in a setting where there is a confirmed disease outbreak;
(c) Live in the same household as someone who works at or attended a setting where there is a confirmed disease outbreak; or
(d) Live in the same household as or have consumed food prepared by a person who is infected or ill with:
(i) shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli;
(ii) Shigella spp.;
(iii) Salmonella Typhi;
(iv) Hepatitis A virus or jaundice; or
(v) Norovirus.