Food Service Employee Health Policy: A Presentation of the Fairfax County Health Department Food Safety Program

1. Food Service
Employee Health Policy
A Presentation of the
Fairfax County Health Department
Food Safety Program

2. Employee Health Policy
What are your responsibilities as an
Employee?
1. Know what causes foodborne illness
2. Report to your Manager if you have
a) symptoms of,
b) a diagnosis of, or
c) been exposed to foodborne illness

3. What causes foodborne illness?
• Foodborne illness can be caused by
contaminated food.
• Food can become contaminated by an ill
employee handling the food.

4. Foodborne illnesses every year:
• 48 million people sick
• 125,000 people hospitalized
• 3,000 people die

5. What is foodborne illness?
BIG FIVE
– E.coli
– Salmonella
– Shigella Cause most foodborne
illnesses in the United States
– Hepatitis A
– Norovirus
Salmonella E. Coli

6. What can you do to prevent your customers
from getting foodborne illness?
1) Wash your hands often!
2) Know what foodborne illness is.
3) Know the symptoms of foodborne
illness.
4) Report to your manager if you have
symptoms of, diagnosis of, or
exposure to foodborne illness.
5) Wash your hands often!

7. What are symptoms of
foodborne illness?
Sore throat
Vomiting with fever
Diarrhea

8. What are symptoms of
foodborne illness?
Jaundice -
Yellowing of the
eyes or skin
Skin infection
with open sores

9. If you have symptoms of
foodborne illness…
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Jaundice (yellow skin or eye color)
• Sore Throat with Fever
• Skin Infection with Open Sores
Call Your
= Manager

10. Diagnosis
If a doctor says that you are sick
with one of the Big Five:
1) E. coli
2) Salmonella
3) Shigella
4) Hepatitis A
5) Norovirus
CALL YOUR MANAGER

11. Exposure
You are not sick but…
1) You have been somewhere where a Big
Five illness has been confirmed – wedding
reception, for example;
2) Someone in your house is diagnosed with
one of the Big Five illnesses;
3) Someone in your house has been
somewhere where a Big Five illness has
been confirmed – workplace, for example.
CALL YOUR MANAGER

12. Prevent Foodborne Illness!
For more information visit
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/hd/food
or call 703-246-2444; TTY 711.