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Council Directive 92/57/EECShow full title
Council Directive 92/57/EEC of 24 June 1992 on the implementation of minimum safety and health requirements at temporary or mobile constructions sites (eighth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC)
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14. Sanitary equipment
14.1. Changing rooms and lockers.
14.1.1.Appropriate changing rooms must be provided for workers if they have to wear special work clothes and if, for reasons of health or propriety, they cannot be expected to change in another area.
Changing rooms must be easily accessible, be of sufficient capacity and be provided with seating.
14.1.2.Changing rooms must be sufficiently large and have facilities to enable each worker, where necessary, to dry his working clothes as well as his own clothing and personal effects and to lock them away.
If circumstances so require (e.g. dagerous substances, humidity, dirt), facilities must be provided to enable working clothes to be kept in a place separate from workers' own clothes and personal effects.
14.1.3.Provisions must be made for separate changing rooms or separate use of changing rooms for men and women.
14.1.4.If changing rooms are not required as referred to in point 14.1.1, first paragraph, each worker must be provided with a place in which he can lock away his own clothes and personal effects.
14.2. Showers and washbasins
14.2.1.Suitable showers in sufficient numbers must be provided for workers if required by the nature of the work or for health reasons.
Provisions must be made for separate shower rooms or separate use of shower rooms for men and women.
14.2.2.The shower rooms must be sufficiently large to permit each worker to wash without hindrance in conditions of an appropriate standard of hygiene.
The showers must be equipped with hot and cold running water.
14.2.3.Where showers are not required under the first paragraph of 14.2.1, a sufficient number of suitable washbasins with running water (hot water if necessary) must be provided in the vicinity of the workstations and the changing rooms.
Provisions must be made for separate washbasins, or separate use of washbasins for men and women when so required for reasons of propriety.
14.2.4.Where the rooms housing, the showers or washbasins are separate from the changing rooms, there must be easy communication between the two.
14.3. Lavatories and washbasins
Special facilities with an adequate number of lavatories and washbasins must be provided for workers in the vicinity of workstations, rest rooms, changing rooms and rooms housing showers or washbasins.
Provisions must be made for separate lavatories or separate use of lavatories for mens and women.
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