We've recently had a couple of occasions when food wrappers have been found in a gents toilet cubicle along with food debris. We share the toilets with a call centre and suspect someone is using the toilet for an unoffical meal break!

What if any part of the Welfare regs are they contravening and what can we do about it?
Your advice is much appreciated.

merlin162

As safetyamateur has already suggested, there's probably no breach of any law in the circumstances you describe. However, the furtive eater might well be breaching company rules/procedures.

Some people can be odd and some of them can be very odd! For a related example, years ago during my HSE days a fellow inspector mentioned that while visiting a sewage works he was suprised to see an employee happily eating sandwiches while sat in an area not far from where effluent was being discharged from a pipe into a large tank or similar container. No doubt my colleague gave appropriate advice to management and also the employee who chose to eat where he did.

What about an employee who washes her glass eye in the workplace kitchen?!!!

Leaving the specifics aside, it isn't acceptable that staff leave litter etc. behind. Some polite notices "please leave as you'd expect to find"...."please place litter in appropriate bins" surely wouldn't go amiss.
I've experienced similar, also Call Centre workers. Not allowed to eat at desks, prescriptive breaks other than toilet breaks = secret eating for those with that predeliction.