Slovenia: 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.

• LawSlovenia has no national food hygiene certificate, course length or renewal. EU law applies: the operator must instruct and train staff to suit their work (Regulation 852/2004).
• LawBefore the first day each worker signs a consent to report illness and fills in a symptom declaration. The employer keeps them with a staff list for inspectors (Rulebook 82/03).
• LawA worker with vomiting, diarrhoea, jaundice, pus-filled skin lesions or discharge from the eyes, ears or nose must stop food work and tell the manager at once (Rulebook 82/03).
• LawThere is no routine yearly medical exam or health card. A public health institute checks a worker only after an infection, diarrhoea or vomiting at home, travel to an area with poor hygiene, or when an inspector asks. The employer pays.
• Official guidanceNIJZ outbreak guidance: stay away for 48 hours after symptoms stop for most infections. After typhoid or dysentery return only with a doctor’s certificate after negative stool tests.