Sanitary conveniences

Sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences for the persons employed in the factory shall be provided, maintained and kept clean and the following requirements shall have effect– (a) in cases where females are employed there shall be at least one suitable sanitary convenience for every twenty-five females; (b) in cases where males are employed there shall be at least one suitable sanitary convenience (not being a convenience suitable merely as a urinal) for every twenty-five males; 20 Factories (c) in the case of factories where the number of males employed exceeds one hundred and sufficient urinal is also provided, it shall be sufficient if there is one such convenience as aforesaid for every twenty- five males up to the first one hundred, and one for every fifty thereafter; (d) in calculating the number of conveniences, any odd number of persons less than twenty-five or fifty, as the case may be, shall be reckoned as twenty-five or fifty; (e) in cases where persons of both sexes are employed the sanitary conveniences for each sex shall be separate and suitably placed; (f) every sanitary convenience shall be sufficiently ventilated and shall not communicate with any workroom except through the open air or through an intervening ventilating space.