Can anyone help? i went to a daycentre yesterday and everyone was seated eating lunch ( i found this next action particularly strange) ....a door opened and someone came directly out of the "toilet" into the dining area...is there any "rules" "regulations " with regards to toilet facilities opening directly into another room ?

There are plenty of rules etc re toilets but mostly for newer builds; more info please noting that many such accommodations are in locations that are available as against suitable

Thundercliffe, Workplace HSW Regs ACOP para 208 - "no room containing a sanitary convenience should communicate directly with a room where food is processed, prepared or eaten." But then in the guidance at Para 211 it says this sentence "is not intended to apply to rest rooms in which workers may eat food they have brought into the workplace" So, were they day care centre users or day care centre staff who had brought their own lunches? EC Reg 852/2004 ANNEX II Chapter 1 para 3 "Lavatories are not to open directly into rooms in which food is handled." This legislation is brought into effect in by The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006. There may be some flexibility to allow the situation you found if food is merely being plated out rather than being "handled". Contact your EHO for food legislation breaches and your HSE Inspector for H&S breaches in Day Care Centres