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Posted By zuleha69
As a new memeber to occ.h&s. I carried out a safety inspection in my workplace and found that the company's toilets are not satisfactory. The flushing pressure is weak and they take ages to refill for the next user.
Is there any regs in relation to this, that will support my finidings?........
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Posted By Simon Marshall
Welfare regs -
Regulation 20: Sanitary conveniences
Regulation
(1) Suitable and sufficient sanitary conveniences shall be provided at readily accessible places.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), sanitary conveniences shall not be suitable unless -
(a) the rooms containing them are adequately ventilated and lit;
(b) they and the rooms containing them are kept in a clean and orderly condition; and
(c) separate rooms containing conveniences are provided for men and women except where and so far as each convenience is in a separate room the door of which is capable of being se-cured from inside.
(3) It shall be sufficient compliance with the requirement in paragraph (1) to provide sufficient sanitary conveniences in a workplace which is not a new workplace, a modification, an extension or a conversion and which, immediately before this regulation came into force in respect of it, was subject to the provisions of the Factories Act 1961, if sanitary conveniences are provided in accordance with the provisions of Part II of Schedule 1.
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Posted By Kevin Brown
The ACOP to Reg 20 states that WCs should be connected to a suitable drainage system and be provided with an effective means for flushing with water. The test of whether there is suitable provision would be if the cisterns recharged fast enough to make the WCs 'readily accessible' to enable everyone at work to use them 'without undue delay'. The ACOP also shows minimum numbers for facilities based on the size and composition of the workforce.
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