We explain what managers need to know about employee health policies.

In this section

• Excludable symptoms and reportable illnesses
• Employee illness log
• Initial employee health training

Related

• See employee illness

Inspectors

• Discuss employee illness policies with managers
• Observe if any staff show excludable symptoms at work
• Review procedures for:
  • Calling in sick
  • What symptoms and diseases exclude staff from working
  • When to allow staff to return to work 

Effective managers

• Know what symptoms exclude an employee from working 
• Exclude staff if they report or show these excludable symptoms:
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
  • Sore throat with fever
  • Jaundice
  • Uncovered lesion
• Know which diagnosed illnesses need to be reported to the Health Department:
  • Salmonella
  • Shigella
  • Shiga toxin-producing E. coli
  • Hepatitis A
  • Norovirus
• Know when staff are allowed to return to work after reporting symptoms or illnesses. 

Inspectors

• Verify a tracking method or log is available on site
• Review log or tracking method to see if required information is recorded

Effective managers

Have a tracking method or log that:

• Is available to all persons in charge
• Has the required information including:
  • Date illness was reported
  • Employee name
  • Specific symptoms
  • Date employee returned to work 

See our employee illness logs in multiple languages

Inspectors

• Verify the business has an employee health policy
• Check to make sure staff have been trained on all required employee health policies

Effective managers

• Develop an effective employee health policy
• Provide or describe their employee health training
• Train staff on excludable symptoms and reportable illnesses
• Make sure employee health policy is followed