Bulgaria: 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.

• LawEvery worker needs a personal health book (лична здравна книжка), kept at the site and shown to inspectors (Ordinance 15/2006, art. 2).
• LawBefore starting, the worker has a doctor’s exam, worm and protozoa tests, a TB skin test and carrier tests. Every year the skin exam, worm tests and carrier tests are repeated (Ordinance 15/2006, art. 3 to 5).
• LawWorkers with an acute infection, diarrhoea, purulent skin disease or similar must tell the manager at once and are removed from work. They return only with the doctor’s entry “допуска се на работа” in the book (Ordinance 15/2006, art. 7 to 9).
• LawBulgaria has no national hygiene certificate, course hours or renewal. The EU rule still applies: staff must be instructed and trained for their work (Regulation 852/2004).