Redgrave's Factories Acts / by Alexander Redgrave.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1931
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Credit: Redgrave's Factories Acts / by Alexander Redgrave. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in attendance there shall be one sanitary convenience for every twenty-five females. In factories or workshops where males are employed or in attend- ance there shall be one sanitary convenience for every twenty-five males: provided that— (a) in factories or workshops where the number of males em- ployed or in attendance exceeds one hundred, and sufficient urinal accommodation is also provided, it shall be sufficient if there is one sanitary convenience for every twenty-five males up to the first hundred, and one for every forty after ; (b) in factories or workshops where the number of males em- ployed or in attendance exceeds five hundred, and the district inspector of factories certifies in writing that by means of a check system, or otherwise, proper super- vision and control in regard to the use of the conveniences are exercised by officers specially appointed for that purpose it shall be sufficient if one sanitary convenience. is provided for every sixty males, in addition to sufficient urinal accommodation. Any certificate given by an inspector shall be kept attached to the general register, and shall be liable at any time to be revoked by notice in writing from the inspector. In calculating the number of conveniences required by this Order, any odd number of persons less than twenty-five, forty, or sixty, as the case may be, shall be reckoned as twenty-five, forty, or sixty. 2. Every sanitary convenience shall be kept in a cleanly state, shall be sufficiently ventilated and lighted, and shall not com- municate with any workroom except through the open air or through an intervening ventilated space; provided that in work- rooms in use prior to Ist January, 1903, and mechanically ventilated in such manner that air cannot be drawn into the workroom through the sanitary convenience, an intervening ventilated space shall not be required. 3. Every sanitary convenience shall be under cover and so partitioned off as to secure privacy, and if for the use of females shall have a proper door and fastenings. 4. The sanitary conveniences in a factory or workshop shall be so arranged and maintained as to be conveniently accessible to all persons employed therein at all times during their employment. 5. Where persons of both sexes are employed, the conveniences for each sex shall be so placed or so screened that the interior shall not be visible, even when the door of any convenience is open, from any place where persons of the other sex have to work or pass ; and, if the conveniences for one sex adjoin those for the other sex, the approaches shall be separate. (c) Penalty.—See s. 135, post, p. 200. (d) Exception of Administrative County of London.—The Public Health (London) Act, 1891, contains, in s. 38, similar provisions to those of this section. See Appendix, post. The effect of this
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