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Posted By paul debney
a friend has just rang up with an interesting scenario.the company where he works has no water services available all day.
the company employs over 100 people in offices and in a warehouse where members of the public have access to.
no toilet or washing facilities are in use.the company is sending people home to use the toilet.
what would the iosh community advise management to do in this situation?
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Posted By Paul Oliver
Prior Preperation and Planning will Prevent P___ Poor Performance.
The Management at this company shoulod have planned for this circumstance by hiring in portable ablutions. Staff should not be expected to go home to use the toilet.
Have a look at the workplace regs, its all in there.
cheers
Paul
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Posted By paul debney
the disruption to the water supply was not planned as im sure this large company would have got portaloos ect.
i have not got the workplace regs in front of me but from memory the regs which relate to water i.e sanitary conveinences are abslute duties.can someone confirm this please.
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
Yes, Paul, the provision of toilets and drinking water are absolute duties.
Paul
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Posted By David Thomas
well it brings a new meaning to "home working"
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Posted By Lorraine Shuker
I had similar situation recently and we arranged with friendly landlord to use facilites of local pub.
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Posted By jason telford
at the end of the day these things happen
1. Ask how long the water will be off
2. Go and purchase some bottled water to drink and wash with
3. if you live local it's fine to go home, but out of the area your stuck or go to the pub, if you have to use the water to fill the systen in emergency situations
4. try to obtain a couple of portable toilets from nearby supplier
and don't take any notice of all these people who plan for every thing ( must have nothing to do all day)
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Posted By Andrew Böber
Faced this a couple of times when I worked at English National Opera and Royal Opera House. Under these circumstance the only option would have been to close the site – a nightmare if you are dealing with paying members of the public – however providence has always blessed me so far. Regardless, it did teach us to immediately write up a contingency should this eventuality happen again.
Andrew
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