The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992

Regulations 10 and 20

SCHEDULE 1PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO FACTORIES WHICH ARE NOT NEW WORKPLACES, MODIFICATIONS, EXTENSIONS OR CONVERSIONS

PART ISPACE

1.  No room in the workplace shall be so overcrowded as to cause risk to the health or safety of persons at work in it.

2.  Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 1, the number of persons employed at atime in any workroom shall not be such that the amount of cubic space allowed for each is less than 11 cubic metres.

3.  In calculating for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule the amount of cubic space in any room no space more than 4.2 metres from the floor shall be taken into account and, where a room contains a gallery, the gallery shall be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as if it were partitioned off from the remainder of the room and formed a separate room.

PART IINUMBER OF SANITARY CONVENIENCES

4.  In workplaces where females work, there shall be at least one suitable water closet for use by females only for every 25 females.

5.  In workplaces where males work, there shall be at least one suitable water closet for use by males only for every 25 males.

6.  In calculating the number of males or females who work in any workplace for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, any number not itself divisible by 25 without fraction or remainder shall be treated as the next number higher than it which is so divisible.