Personnel—Health.
Seattle Mun. Code ch. 10.16, subch. II, § 10.16.310
in effect10.16.310 - Personnel—Health.
A. The Director or a physician authorized by him, shall examine and take a careful morbidity history of every person connected with a producer-distributor dairy, or about to be employed by one, whose work brings him into contact with the production, handling, storage or transportation of milk, milk products, containers, or equipment. If such examination or history should suggest that such person may be a carrier of, or be infected with, the organisms of typhoid or paratyphoid fever or any other communicable disease likely to be transmitted through milk, he shall obtain appropriate specimens of body discharges and cause them to be examined in a laboratory approved by him or by the state health authorities for such examination, and if the results justify, such person shall be barred from such employment.
B. Such person shall furnish such information, submit to such physical examinations, and submit such laboratory specimens as the Director may require for the purpose of determining freedom from infection.
C. No person with an infected cut or lesion on hands or arms shall handle milk, milk products, milk containers, or milk equipment.
D. Milkers' hands shall be washed clean, rinsed with an effective bactericidal solution, and dried with a clean towel, immediately before milking and immediately after any interruption in the milking operation. Wet-hand milking is prohibited. Convenient facilities shall be provided for the washing of milkers' hands. No person with an infected cut or lesion on hands or arms shall milk cows, or handle milk or milk utensils.
(Ord. 84106, § 7(Items 19r and 25r), 1955.)
Source: City of Seattle, Seattle Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/wa/seattle/codes/municipal_code?nodeId=TIT10HESA_CH10.16MIMIPR_SUBCHAPTER_IIPRDA_10.16.310PEEAFetched: 11/1/2026