Serbia: 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 who makes, sells or serves food, or touches food or packaging, needs a health check before starting and then every 6 months. This is the sanitary book (sanitarna knjižica). It includes a doctor exam, a throat and nose swab, and stool tests. The book must be kept and shown on request (Pravilnik 3/2017).
• LawFood handlers must be instructed and trained for their job, and the staff responsible for HACCP trained in HACCP (Pravilnik 73/2010, art. 29). No renewal or hours are set. Keep a training log.
• LawNo one with a food-transmissible disease or carrier state, infected wounds, skin lesions or diarrhoea may do food work. Workers must report illness (Pravilnik 73/2010, art. 23).