Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) General requirements.
(1) The employer shall provide adequate and
readily accessible sanitation facilities.
(2) The employer shall establish and
implement a schedule for servicing, cleaning, and supplying each facility to
ensure it is maintained in a clean, sanitary, and serviceable
condition.
(b) Potable
water shall be provided in accordance with General Industry Safety Orders,
Section 3363. In addition, the employer
shall dispense drinking water from a fountain, a covered container with
single-use drinking cups stored in a sanitary receptacle, or single-use
bottles. The employer shall prohibit the use of shared drinking cups, dippers,
and water bottles.
(c) Non-potable
water.
(1) The employer may use non-potable
water for other purposes such as firefighting and cleaning outdoor premises so
long as it does not contain chemicals, fecal matter, coliform, or other
substances at levels that may create a hazard for employees.
(2) The employer shall clearly mark
non-potable water supplies and outlets as "not safe for health or personal
use."
(d) Toilets.
(1) General requirements. The employer shall
ensure that sewered and portable toilets:
(A)
Provide privacy at all times. When a toilet facility contains more than one
toilet, each toilet shall occupy a separate compartment with a door and walls
or partitions that are sufficiently high to ensure privacy; and
(B) Are separate for each sex, except as
provided in (d)(1)(B)2 of this section;
1. The
number of toilets provided for each sex shall be based on the maximum number of
employees of that sex present at the worksite at any one time during a work
shift. A single occupancy toilet room shall be counted as one toilet regardless
of the number of toilets it contains; and
2. The employer does not have to provide
separate toilet facilities for each sex when they will not be occupied by more
than one employee at a time, can be locked from the inside, and contain at
least one toilet.
(C) The
employer shall establish and implement a schedule to ensure that each sewered
and portable toilet is maintained in a clean, sanitary, and serviceable
condition.
(2) Minimum
number of toilets.
(A) The employer shall
provide at least the following number of toilets for each sex. Portable toilets
that meet the requirements of subsection (d)(3) may be included in the minimum
number of toilets.
|
TABLE F-2 |
|
| Number of employees of each
sex | Minimum number of toilets per sex |
| 1 to 15 | 1 |
| 16 to 35 | 2 |
| 36 to 55 | 3 |
| 56 to 80 | 4 |
| 81 to 110 | 5 |
| 111 to 150 | 6 |
| Over 150 | 1 additional toilet for each
additional 40 employees. |
| NOTE TO TABLE F-2: When toilets will
only be used by men, urinals may be provided instead of toilets, except that
the number of toilets in such cases shall not be reduced to less than
two-thirds of the minimum specified. |
(3) Portable toilets.
(A) The employer shall provide portable
toilets, pursuant to subsection (d)(2)(A) and Table F-2, only when the employer
demonstrates that it is not feasible to provide sewered toilets, or when there
is a temporary increase in the number of employees for a short duration of
time.
(B) The employer shall ensure
that each portable toilet is vented and equipped, as necessary, with
lighting.
(4) Exception
for normally unattended worksites and mobile work crews. The requirement to
provide toilets does not apply to normally unattended worksites and mobile work
crews, provided that the employer ensures that employees have immediately
available transportation to readily accessible sanitation facilities that are
maintained in a clean, sanitary, and serviceable condition and meet the other
requirements of this section.
(e) Hand washing facilities.
(1) The employer shall provide hand washing
facilities at or adjacent to each toilet facility.
(2) The employer shall ensure that each hand
washing facility:
(A) Is equipped with either
hot and cold or lukewarm running water and soap, or with waterless
skin-cleansing agents that are capable of disinfecting the skin or neutralizing
the contaminants to which the employee may be exposed; and
(B) If the facility uses soap and water, it
is supplied with clean, single-use hand towels stored in a sanitary container
and a sanitary means for disposing of them, clean individual sections of
continuous cloth toweling, or a hand-drying air blower.
(3) The employer shall inform each employee
engaged in the application of paints or coatings or in other operations in
which hazardous or toxic substances can be ingested or absorbed about the need
for removing surface contaminants from their skin's surface by thoroughly
washing their hands and face at the end of the work shift and prior to eating,
drinking, or smoking.
(f)
Showers. Showers shall be provided in accordance with General Industry Safety
Orders Section
3366(f).
(g) Changing rooms. When an employer provides
protective clothing to prevent employee exposure to hazardous or toxic
substances, the employer shall provide the following:
(1) Changing rooms that provide privacy for
each sex; and
(2) Storage
facilities for street clothes, as well as separate storage facilities for
protective clothing.
(h)
Eating, drinking, and break areas. The employer shall ensure that food,
beverages, and tobacco products are not consumed or stored in any area where
employees may be exposed to hazardous or toxic substances.
(i) Waste disposal.
(1) The employer shall provide waste
receptacles that meet the following requirements:
(A) Each receptacle is constructed of
materials that are corrosion resistant, leak-proof, and easily cleaned or
disposable;
(B) Each receptacle is
equipped with a solid tight-fitting cover, unless it can be kept in clean,
sanitary, and serviceable condition without the use of a cover;
(C) Receptacles are provided in numbers,
sizes, and locations that encourage their use; and
(D) Each receptacle is emptied as often as
necessary to prevent it from overfilling and in a manner that does not create a
hazard for employees. Waste receptacles for food shall be emptied at least
every day, unless unused.
(2) The employer shall not permit employees
to work in the immediate vicinity of uncovered garbage.
(3) The employer shall ensure that employees
working beneath or on the outboard side of a vessel are not subject to
contamination by drainage or waste from overboard
discharges.
(j) No minor
under 18 years of age shall be employed in ship breaking or related
employments.
1.
Amendment filed 1-22-88; operative 2-21-88 (Register 88, No. 6).
2.
Editorial correction of subsection (a) (Register 97, No. 25).
3.
Amendment filed 12-13-2011; operative 12-13-2011. Submitted to OAL for printing
only pursuant to Labor Code section
142.3(a)(3)
(Register 2011, No. 50).
4. Amendment of subsection (b) filed
8-27-2015; operative 10-1-2015. Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to
Labor Code section
142.3(a)(3)
(Register 2015, No. 35).
Note: Authority cited: Section
142.3, Labor
Code. Reference: Section
142.3, Labor
Code.
