{"id":"DUT-AK-011","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Alaska","state":"AK","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Environmental Health, Food Safety and Sanitation Program (regulation)","authority":"AS 17.20 (Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) and AS 44.46.020 (as the Alaska Food Code recites); 18 AAC 31 (Alaska Food Code)","instrument":"18 AAC 31.300","title":"Employee health (Alaska Food Code, art. 3, Management and Personnel)","dateIssued":"2026-09-28","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2026-09-28","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP","QUAR"],"addressees":["specified businesses: operators of food establishments (restaurants, bars serving food, grocery and retail food, processors, camps, institutions, mobile units)"],"clause":"(a) The operator of a food establishment shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that each employee with an infected wound or a disease communicable by food is not working in a food establishment in any capacity that might contaminate food or a food-contact surface. (b) The operator... shall ensure that... each employee reports each of the following conditions to the operator","enforcement":"Permit suspension and immediate closure under 18 AAC 31.905 (DUT-AK-012).","functions":[],"notes":"A standing operator\u0027s duty to keep employees with communicable disease or the listed symptoms (vomiting, diarrhea, jaundice, sore throat with fever, infected lesions) out of food handling, to require employee reporting of those conditions, to exclude or restrict under Table E, and to notify the department within 24 hours of listed diagnoses; with 18 AAC 31.320 (the person in charge \u0027shall\u0027 identify hazards, develop and implement policies \u0027to prevent foodborne illness\u0027 and train employees), it is the sanitary-code footing of the symptom-screening and exclusion protocols of Mandate 016 Attachment F (Ex. AK-042) and of DEC\u0027s COVID-19 guidance (DUT-AK-013).","sourceUrl":"https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/alaska/18-AAC-31.300","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":115384,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-AK","url":"/library/DUT-AK-011","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-AK-011","citation":"Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Environmental Health, Food Safety and Sanitation Program (regulation), 18 AAC 31.300 (standing) (Ex. DUT-AK-011)","stateName":"Alaska","related":["AK-042","DUT-AK-013","DUT-AK-012","DUT-AK-018","DUT-AK-019"]}