Foodworker Illness Awareness

Workers who prepare food while experiencing diarrhea and/or vomiting are frequently linked to foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurants and other retail food outlets. As a food manager or worker you have a responsibility to protect yourself and your guests from foodborne illness.

	Illness Reporting for Food Service Fact Sheet Fact sheet for food workers and food managers.
	Employee Illness Decision Guide (PDF) Ask these three questions to decide if employees' duties should be modified due to illness.
	Employee Illness Card: Do you have vomiting and/or diarrhea? (PDF)
	Employee Illness Log (PDF) This log can be used to track and report employee illnesses.
	Food Employee Illness Guidelines (PDF) An illness symptoms action guidance chart showing illnesses/conditions, the action foodworkers should take, criteria for returning to work, and other helpful information.
	11 x 17: Employees: Report Your Illness Poster (PDF) 8 1/2 x 11: Employees: Report Your Illness Poster (PDF)
	Persons-In-Charge: You Must Report Customer Complains of Illness Poster (PDF)
	Poster alerting employees that they must not work in the food establishment if they have vomiting or diarrhea, they must tell the person in charge if they are sick, and they can not return to work for at least 24 hours after symptoms are gone. This poster is available for download in five languages. Attention Poster (PDF) Chinese Mandrin (PDF) Hmong (PDF) Somali (PDF) Spanish (PDF)
	Employees Keep Your Customers and Your Coworkers Healthy Poster (PDF) Poster alerting employees that they must not work in the food establishment if they have vomiting or diarrhea, they must tell the person in charge if they are sick, and they can not return to work for at least 24 hours after symptoms are gone.
	The Keep Yourself and Your Guests Safe and Keep Yourself and Your Consumers Safe posters are available in a variety of size variations and languages. These posters provide a simple message for all persons working in the food handling trade. 11 x 17: Keep Yourself and Your Guests Safe (PDF) Hmong (PDF) Somali (PDF) Spanish (PDF) 8 1/2 x 11: Keep Yourself and Your Guests Safe (PDF) Hmong (PDF) Somali (PDF) Spanish (PDF) 11 x 17: Keep Yourself and Your Consumers Safe (PDF) 8 1/2 x 11: Keep Yourself and Your Consumers Safe (PDF)

• Illness-Related Restrictions for Food Workers, and for Children or Staff in a Daycare Setting
  Employees may be subject to certain restrictions from food service when they are ill with a diarrheal illness.

Food Worker Handwashing Posters

	Handwashing with a Nail Brush Eight steps to washing hands using a nail brush poster that could be hung in restrooms.
	Minnesota's Health/Your Health is in your Hands Posters
	Handwashing for Employees (PDF) Handwashing fact sheet for food workers. How to wash your hands, when to wash your hands, where to wash your hands, hand antiseptics. Preventing Contamination from Hands (PDF) Fact sheet for food workers including: Preventing bare hand contact, handling ingredients, and handling finished menu items.

Comprehensive List of all Handwashing Posters and Print Materials
Signs, posters, brochures, manuals, curricula, and other hand hygiene materials that you can print and use.

Cover Your Cough

Cover Your Cough Poster for the Community The "green" cover your cough poster for health care facilities asking people to cover their cough and clean their hands. This poster is available for download in several languages.

Comprehensive List of all Cover Your Cough Print Materials
It is easy to browse through this list of all of the Cover Your Cough print materials.

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Keeping Food Safe During Buffets or Picnics
Buffets or picnics can be a means to transmit disease among your guests if care is not taken in how the food is handled.

Preventing Illness Associated with Animal Contact
How to stay healthy around household pets, petting zoos and fairs.

Waterborne Illness
Waterborne illness is caused by recreational or drinking water contaminated by disease-causing microbes or pathogens. Of note, many waterborne pathogens can also be acquired by consuming contaminated food or beverages, from contact with animals or their environment, or through person-to-person spread.

There's No Such Thing as "Stomach Flu" (PDF)
Complaints of "stomach flu" are usually norovirus, the most common cause of gastrointestinal illness.

Food Safety Basics: Preventing Foodborne Illness
There's a lot you can do to handle and prepare your food safely. Learn what you can do to prepare, serve and store food safely.

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