Council Directive of 30 November 1989 concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the workplace (first individual directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) (89/654/EEC) (c. 654)

ANNEX II U.K. MINIMUM HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKPLACES ALREADY IN USE, AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 4 OF THE DIRECTIVE

13. Sanitary equipment U.K.

13.1. Changing rooms and lockers U.K.

13.1.1. 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 and of sufficient capacity.

13.1.2. Changing rooms must have facilities to enable each worker to lock away his 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.

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

13.2. Showers, lavatories and washbasins U.K.

13.2.1. Workplaces must be fitted out in such a way that workers have in the vicinity: U.K.

• showers, if required by the nature of their work,

• special facilities equipped with an adequate number of lavatories and washbasins.

13.2.2. The showers and washbasins must be equipped with running water (hot water if necessary). U.K.

13.2.3. Provision must be made for separate showers or separate use of showers for men and women. U.K.

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