LTC Regulations: Facility Tags

In the past, regulations were grouped by discipline. There were "dietary" tags and "nursing" tags and neither discipline paid much attention to the others. Some facilities still have this philosophy. A better approach is to consider all regulations as facility regulations.

Any employee, regardless of department, must follow F371 if she is handling food. This applies to dining service employees, of course. It also applies to employees in activities/life enrichment, social services, nursing, department managers and anyone else that prepares or serves food, even if it is just for special events.

It is necessary that the dining service manager take responsibility for seeing that all employees who work with food are properly trained. It is also necessary to monitor that they are actually using the knowledge they were given.