Health and Safety Code § 113953.1

ARTICLE 4. Handwashing

Current as of September 28, 2026Health & Saf. Code, § 113953.1Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 23, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by Sec. 3 of Ch. 23.

(a) A handwashing facility shall be clean, unobstructed, and accessible at all times for employee use.

(b) A handwashing facility shall not be used for purposes other than handwashing.

(c) Employees shall not clean their hands in a sink used for food preparation, warewashing, or in a service sink or a curbed cleaning facility used for the disposal of mop water and similar liquid waste.

(d) Notwithstanding subdivision (c), a warewashing sink may be used for handwashing as specified in Section 114125.