United Arab Emirates: staff sickness and training

“Law” is a binding rule. “Official guidance” is not law, but inspectors expect it. “Chef Hygiene default” is a value the app checks against where no rule gives a number.

• LawDubai: a certified Person in Charge on every shift where high-risk food is prepared, the certificate valid 5 years, and the Person in Charge's name shown where customers can see it (the Dubai Food Code 3.1).
• LawEvery food handler holds a valid occupational health card after the government medical fitness tests (the Dubai Food Code 5.1; Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah ask for it too). In Dubai, sick staff come back 48 hours after the symptoms and the medicine stop (the Dubai Food Code 5.2).
• LawDubai: every food handler is trained before starting work, with a refresher after 1 year. Abu Dhabi: EFST food safety training for every food handler (ADAFSA's Code of Practice No. 29 of 2019).