The employer, representative contractor or contractor upon being notified by a representative of the Department or local or the Department of Health of the existence of an infectious, contagious or communicable disease in a home where industrial homework is being done, shall, if permitted by the local or Department of Health, remove the articles or materials from the home. The articles or materials shall be immediately sterilized in a manner approved by the Department. The employer, representative contractor or contractor may not again furnish materials to a homeworker living in the home until he has been notified by one of the agents mentioned in this section that the home is free from the infectious, contagious or communicable disease.