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

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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