Council Directive 92/104/EEC of 3 December 1992 on the minimum requirements for improving the safety and health protection of workers in surface and underground mineral-extracting industries (twelfth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) (c. 104)

ANNEX U.K. MINIMUM SAFETY AND HEALTH REQUIREMENTS AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 10 OF THE DIRECTIVE

PART A U.K. COMMON MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND MINERAL-EXTRACTING INDUSTRIES AND TO ANCILLARY SURFACE INSTALLATIONS

14. Sanitary installations U.K.

14.1. Changing rooms and lockers U.K.

14.1.1. Appropriate changing rooms must be provided for workers if they have to wear special work clothes and where, for reasons of health or propriety, they cannot be expected to change in another room. U.K.

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 to lock away his/her clothes during working hours. U.K.

If circumstances so require (e.g. dangerous substances, humidity, dirt), lockers for work clothes must be separate from those for ordinary clothes.

Provision must be made to enable wet work clothes to be dried.

14.1.3. Provision must be made for separate changing rooms or separate use of changing rooms for men and women. U.K.

14.1.4. If changing rooms are not required under 14.1.1, each worker must be provided with a place to store his/her clothes. U.K.

14.2. Showers and washbasins U.K.

14.2.1. Adequate and suitable showers must be provided for workers if required by the nature of the work or for health reasons. U.K.

Provision 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. U.K.

The showers must be equipped with hot and cold water.

14.2.3. Where showers are not required under the first subparagraph of 14.2.1, adequate and suitable washbasins with hot and cold water must be provided in the vicinity of the workstations and the changing rooms. U.K.

Such washbasins must be separate for, or used separately by, men and women when so required for reasons of propriety.

14.3. Lavoratories and washbasins U.K.

Separate facilities must be provided in the vicinity of workstations, rest rooms, changing rooms and rooms housing showers or washbasins, with an adequate number of lavatories and washbasins.

Provisions must be made for separate lavatories or separate use of lavatories for men and women.

In the case of underground mineral-extracting industries, the sanitary installations referred to in this section may be located on the surface.