Employee Illness
Materials
Food Safety Partnership
October 2009
History
• Input from various members of FSP
• Strong opinions on current materials
• Opportunity for input on new
materials
Employee Illness/Hand Hygiene
Workgroup (EIHH Wkgp) Membership
• Maintain a good cross-section of
public health stakeholders from
across Minnesota
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Local
State
Industry
Academia
EIHH Wkgp Beginnings
• Two large project areas
– Employee Illness
– Hand Hygiene
• Focus on one at a time
• Felt that most pressing need was
Employee Illness materials
Needs & Objectives
• Need new materials that would be useful &
user friendly to operators
• Target audiences:
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Persons-in-charge
Employees/staff
Public
Sanitarians & corporate food safety staff
Persons-in-charge
Employee Illness Decision Guide
Some public health and industry
partners have commented that:
• Current chart is confusing and hard
to follow
• Too much information
Employees / Staff
Illness Awareness Posters
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Design
Information
Opportunity to comment
Options available
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New Materials
Aesthetically pleasing
Easy to use
Consistent with Food Code
Clear direction
Opportunity to comment
Ownership of materials &
process
• Library of materials
• Massachusetts Department of
Health
More New Posters
What’s Brand New???
• New target
audience
• Useful tool for
field sanitarians
• Available to
industry
• As inclusive as
possible
Next Steps
• Break out sessions at satellite
locations
• Materials available online:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/fo
od/pwdu/fsp/iaworkgrp/index.html
• Comments sent to:
[email protected]
• Conference call October 28
• Materials available for distribution ->
early November
Many Thanks!!!!
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Deb Anderson
Ken Schelper
Mary Woodford
Karen Swenson
Lavonne Kucera
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Deb Kosiak
Mandy Sedlak
Elena Yepiz
Sally Lannier
Deborah Durkin