Health and Safety Code section 113953.1


(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.

Source: Section 113953.1, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=113953.­1.­ (updated Jan. 1, 2007; accessed Jul. 14, 2025).

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