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Chapter 1: Management

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1. Managers have many responsibilities. One of the primary responsibilities of a food manager is:
A.  To make sure customers are happy.
B.  To make sure employees stay busy.
  C.  To train employees in basic food safety principles.
   
2.

What is the proper way to wash your hands?

A.   Sanitize hands 10-15 seconds
B.   Use anti-bacterial gel on hands and exposed arms

C.   Rub lathered hands & exposed arms vigorously for 10-15 seconds.

   
3.  May an employee eat, smoke, or chew gum or tobacco in the food preparation area?
A.   Yes.
B.   No. (explain your answer)
   
  4.   May an employee drink in the food preparation area?
  A.   Yes.
B.   No.              (explain your answer)
 
5. Employees may not wear a wrist-watch while preparing food because:
  A.   it may harbor microorganisms.
   B.   it may slip off of the wrist and fall into the food being prepared.
C. All of the above

 

6. Which of the following foodborne illnesses is one of the BIG FIVE?
   A.   Norovirus
B.   Hepatitis A virus
  C.   E. Coli
  D.   Salmonella typhi
  E.   Shigella ssp.
F. All of the above
 
7. An employee with symptoms of one of the "Big 5" foodborne illnesses must:
  A.   be restricted from handling food or food items such as utensils and clean napkins.
  B.   be excluded from the food establishment. (Stay home!)
    
   
  8.   Food-handlers must not work with or around food if they have which of the following symptoms:
A.   fever and sore throat
   B.   diarrhea and vomiting.
   C.   an infected boil or cut on finger that's not protected.
   D.   any of the above symptoms
   

  9.  

Should the manager restrict or exclude the employee with the symptoms in question #8?
    
10. An employee diagnosed with Shigellosis, Norovirus, E.Coli, Salmonella typhi or ___________ must be excluded from the eating establishment.
A.    Hepatitis C
  B.    HIV
   C.    Hepatitis A
    

11. 

Before returning to work, an employee who was excluded from the establishment must:
A.   Ensure all symptoms are gone for 72 hours.
B.    have approval from the regulatory authority and provide written documentation from a          physician.
    
12. The Staphylococcus bacteria is most likely to contaminate food by employees who are carriers of the bacteria:
  A.    Mopping the floor
   B.    coughing, sneezing or scratching during food prep
   C.    eating in a food prep area
 
13. A manager should restrict the food handling tasks of an employee who has persistent sneezing, coughing or runny nose that:
  A.    requires cold or cough medication.
   B.    causes discharges from the eyes, nose or mouth.
    

  14.

When should food employees wash their hands?
A.    after touching dirty dishes
   B.    after blowing their nose
   C.    before handling food
D.    all of the above
 
  15. Why must the food manager make sure employees have clean fingernails and wear clean aprons?
A.   bacteria under fingernails and on dirty aprons can contaminate food.
   B.   Listeriosis is found under fingernails
   
16. When training employees in basic food safety principles, which of the following subjects should be included?
   A.    the nutritional value of foods
   B.   symptoms of diseases that are transmitted through food
 
17. A food employee is making hamburger patties and another employee is cutting raw chicken meat. Their aprons get dirty from the raw meat. The dirty apron is a concern because:
  A.   it may be a carrier of cold or flu
  B.   The apron could contaminate other food
 
18. A piece of food gets stuck in a customer's throat. Which of the following should be done?
  A.   the Heimlich Maneuver
  B.   Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation - CPR
   
 19.  The health inspector completed an inspection and gave you the inspection report. The score was an 89. As a manager you should:
A.   be concerned because the score wasn't 100 and fix the issues so the violations do not occur again.
  B.   give your employees the afternoon off for the adequate score.
   
20. Employees may drink from a non-spillable, closed beverage container if it prevents the contamination of the:
A.   hands
   B.   glass
    
21. Employees are required to report which of the following to the manager?
  A.   Health
B.   Previous food safety training

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