text: do people who work in restaurant kitchens have to be checked for aids?   no they dont.  tney do however have very strict codes of food handling and hygiene. (thats for everyone, not just people with hiv/aids.)  if any worker cuts themselves the full batch of food is thrown away.  people with hiv/aids are not any kind of risk to anyone in most jobs as the virus cannot be passed on like that.  obviously the exceptions are in the medical industry, as an accident with a scalpel/sharp could easily cut the practitioner and the patient.  for most jobs a person wouldnt have to declare they had hiv/aids and quite rightly too. unfortunately there is a still a social stigma attached to people diagnosed as hiv positive. but the truth is these people pose no risk to us in everyday life.  we however pose a great risk to them if we have any form of infectious illness and they are at a stage where their immune systems are suppressed because of the condition.