Oregon Statutes - Chapter 624 - Food Service Facilities - Section 624.080 - Diseased persons working in restaurants, bed and breakfast facilities or temporary restaurants; suspicion of possible transmission of infection; rules.

(1) The Department of Human Services may, by rule, define certain communicable diseases which may be spread to the public by employees of a restaurant, bed and breakfast facility or temporary restaurant.

(2) No person who is affected with a communicable disease described in subsection (1) of this section or is a carrier of such disease shall work in any restaurant, bed and breakfast facility or temporary restaurant. No restaurant, bed and breakfast facility or temporary restaurant shall employ any such person or any person suspected of being affected with any communicable disease or of being a carrier of such disease. If the restaurant, bed and breakfast facility or temporary restaurant manager suspects that any employee has contracted any disease in a communicable form or has become a carrier of such disease the manager shall notify the Director of Human Services immediately. A placard containing this subsection shall be posted in all toilet rooms.

(3) When suspicion arises as to the possibility of transmission of infection from any restaurant, bed and breakfast facility or temporary restaurant employee, the director may require any or all of the following measures:

(a) The immediate exclusion of the employee from all restaurants, bed and breakfast facilities and temporary restaurants; and

(b) Adequate medical examinations of the employee and associates of the employee, with such laboratory examinations as may be indicated. [Amended by 1957 c.672 §5; 1973 c.825 §10; 1987 c.226 §6; 1999 c.59 §184]

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