Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 31 - Labor
38a - Sanitary, Lighting and Heating Facilities for Employees of Railroad Companies as Defined in Section 16-1 of the General Statutes
Section 31-38a-6 - Privacy
Universal Citation: CT Reg of State Agencies 31-38a-6
Current through December 12, 2024
(a) Installations existing on February 7, 1961.
(1) The entrance door to every
water-closet compartment or toilet room existing on February 7, 1961, which
opens directly into a workroom shall be screened from view by a vestibule or a
stationary screen, extending to a height of not less than six feet, and of
sufficient width to prevent a view of the interior of the water-closet
compartment or toilet room.
(2)
Where such water closets for males and females are in adjoining compartments or
toilet rooms and the entrance doors are within ten feet or less of each other,
a stationary screen not less than six feet high and either T or L shape shall
be built between and in front of the doors.
(3) Every partition separating a water-closet
compartment provided for males from a compartment provided for females shall
extend from the floor to the ceiling and there shall be no direct connection
between the compartments either by doors or by other opening.
(4) No water closet or urinal compartment may
be maintained in connection with rooms in which food products are manufactured
or in which unwrapped food products are packed or sold, unless such compartment
is separated from such rooms by a ventilated vestibule with door. The
compartment and vestibule doors shall be provided with self-closing devices.
During the period between May first and November first, all windows in toilet
rooms, water closets and urinal compartments provided for such workrooms shall
have wire screens, not coarser than fourteen mesh wire, and such screens shall
be kept in good repair.
(b) New installations.
(1) Every water-closet compartment installed
after February 7, 1961, shall be located in a toilet room, or shall be built
with a vestibule and door to screen the interior from view.
(2) The door of every toilet room and of
every water-closet compartment, which is not located in a toilet room, shall be
fitted with an effective self-closing device to keep it closed.
(3) Where the water closets for males and
females are in adjoining compartments, there shall be solid plaster or
metal-covered partitions between the compartments, extending from the floor to
the ceiling.
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