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I have a client who is building a distillery from the ground up on a brown field site.
Cureently all the buildings are watertight, they do not have mains electric in all of the buildings but do have mainds potable water into the main building.
We have had a welfare cabin and porta loos on site for the construction phase, when there were lots of workers on site.
We are now in the inbetween phase where there is no real construction work being conducted, but were awaiting our M&E contractor to start the fit out, but that is several months away.
We have 2 blokes on site doing odd jobs, bit of painting, bit of landscaping and general works. We can build the welfare into 1 of the office rooms but there are no toilets onsite.
Now the issue we have is the use of the portaloos. I did a quick Q7A with the workers and they use the portaloos for urinating but not defacating in. THe supplier is very hit and miss with their emptying schedule, always full of excuses, so instead of weekly emptying, it could be 2-3 weeks.
We have the main business office 250m away from the construction site with hot & cold running water and toilets, there are public toilets 75m from the site, across the carpark and there is a cafe the 2 workers visit every day.
Would it be acceptable to dispense with the portaloos and utilise the facilities in either the office, public or cafe toilets?
I've looked at the HSE website but surprisingly they do not specify a distance, just some vague statement about being mindful of the distance the workers have to travel.
Does anyone have experience of a similar situation?
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Mark HSE used to have specific guidance about welfare on "transient" construction sites, not identical but comparable to what you are describing and all about making sure that adequate facilities are accessible in a relatively short time span whether access is by foot or vehicle. Now the guidance is a bit thinner and at Provision of welfare facilities during construction work (hse.gov.uk) I suppose one of the QQ is why they don't just sort out the programme and get the permanent facilities up and runinng? - even if that might be with a temporary power supply, and possibly even temporary arrangements for provision of potable water to the point of use and the removal of sewage to ditto. There's a lot of £££ being invested in this project, so perhaps one or two of those pounds could be diverted to treating a couple of "blokes on site doing odd jobs" with a little more respect. Edited by user 08 September 2023 13:42:02(UTC)
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 1 user thanked peter gotch for this useful post.
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Thankls Peter for the comprehansive answer. It was my recomendation to put in temp facilities.
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