901:3-4-17(B) State survey procedures for program evaluation

The director will provide the survey methodology to all licensors. The methodology shall include:

(1)

A review of the administrative aspects of the retail food establishment program including applications and licensing, cost analysis and fee adoption, facility layout and equipment specification review, inspections and reports and enforcement;

(2)

A written or electronic assessment pursuant to division (H) of section 3717.33 of the Revised Code to be administered in the following manner:

(a)

Except as provided in paragraph (B)(2)(b) of this rule, each individual registered as an environmental health specialist or environmental health specialist in training that has conducted food inspections within the last licensing year will be evaluated by the director using the assessment;

(b)

Any individual registered as an environmental health specialist or environmental health specialist in training that previously passed the assessment given by the director of health within the same calendar year in which a survey occurs will not be obligated to be assessed again by the director during a survey conducted in the same calendar year;

(c)

The individual is allowed to reference the Ohio uniform food safety code during the assessment;

(d)

No smart watches or cellular phones will be permitted during the assessment;

(e)

The assessment will consist of not more than fifty questions in length;

(f)

The individual will have one hundred twenty minutes to complete the assessment;

(g)

In order to pass the assessment, the individual will correctly answer eighty per cent of the assessment questions;

(h)

In accordance with division (H) of section 3717.33 of the Revised Code, each licensor will provide the director the most commonly documented violations within the jurisdiction by January thirty-first of each year.

(3)

A review of other performance standards relevant to the conduct of the retail food establishment program. Performance standards are outside the scope of the status of compliance.