Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19 - Public Health and Safety › 13-F - The Public Health Code of the State of Connecticut › Chapter VI - LAND AND AIR CONVEYANCES OF COMMON CARRIERS › Section 19-13-F4 - Sanitation at terminals and yards

Current through July 10, 2024
Places where land and air conveyances are serviced, such as
				  depots, coach yards, terminals, bus stations and airplane landing fields, shall
				  be provided with all sanitary facilities essential to the protection of public
				  health, and such places and facilities shall be maintained in a clean and
				  sanitary condition and in accordance with the following requirements:
(a) Equipment and facilities of adequate
				nature and extent shall be provided so that the handling of water, ice and
				foods and the cleaning of land and air conveyances shall be carried out under
				acceptable conditions.
(b)
				Satisfactory facilities for the storage and disposal of garbage and other
				refuse shall be provided.
(c) The
				use of water of unsafe, doubtful or unknown sanitary quality shall not be
				permitted for drinking and for other personal or domestic purposes in any coach
				yard, station, bus terminal, airplane field, hangar or room where land and air
				conveyances are serviced or maintained. Outlets for any such unapproved water
				shall be posted as ''Unsafe to Drink.''
(d) Places or areas where land and air
				conveyances are serviced or handled, including the furnishing of water and food
				supplies, shall have satisfactory and adequately drained platforms or ground
				surfaces kept in good repair and in a clean condition.
(e) In places or areas where land and air
				conveyances are serviced, maintained, cleaned or occupied by passengers at a
				terminal or yard, operations shall be so conducted as to avoid fecal
				contamination of these areas. Where soil cans are used, they shall be of
				suitable material and provision shall be made for their proper cleaning,
				maintenance and storage. Disposal of their contents shall be in a sanitary
				manner, and She water system shall be protected against contamination during
				the cleaning operation.
(f) There
				shall be suitable facilities for the cleaning and flushing of removable water
				coolers and constant temperature bottles in instances where equipment of this
				type is in use, and cleaning and flushing shall be sufficiently frequent and
				thorough as to maintain water of good physical and bacteriological
				quality.
(g) There shall be
				available suitable equipment for the cleaning in a sanitary manner of water
				filters when used on land and air conveyances, and such filters shall be
				properly maintained.
(h)
				Satisfactory facilities and equipment shall be provided at places or areas
				where land and air conveyances are furnished with food and drink supplies so
				that these supplies may be properly protected, and such food and drink supplies
				shall be clean, wholesome and free from spoilage, and shall be so stored and
				prepared as to be safe for human consumption. Foods such as oysters, clams and
				milk products shall not be repacked from one container to another.
(i) Interior cleaning of all land and air
				conveyances shall be sufficiency frequent and thorough as to maintain such
				conveyances in a clean and sanitary condition. Suitable facilities shall be
				provided at the places or areas where land and air conveyances are cleaned and
				shall be such that cleaning operations can be carried out without causing
				insanitary conditions or creating industrial or safety hazards detrimental to
				the health of employees.
(j) There
				shall be adequate toilet, washroom, locker and other essential facilities in or
				adjacent to places or areas where land and air conveyances are serviced,
				maintained, cleaned or handled, for the use of the employees engaged in this
				work. At all stations and terminals of land and air conveyances where public
				waiting rooms are provided and tickets are sold, there shall be adequate toilet
				facilities for the use of both patrons and employees. If such station or
				terminal is located within three hundred feet of a public sewer, water-flush
				toilets shall be installed and permanently connected with such sewer and a wash
				basin or basins shall be located near the toilet and similarly connected.
				Toilets and lavatories shall be constantly furnished with an adequate supply of
				toilet paper, soap and free or pay clean towels. Toilets and other facilities
				set forth shall be separate for each of the two sexes and shall be kept in a
				clean and sanitary condition and in good working order at all times.
(k) Persons engaged in the servicing of land
				and air conveyances with water, foods or drinks shall wear clean outer garments
				or uniforms, overalls or aprons of washable material, which shall be laundered
				at frequent intervals, and shall clean their hands by washing with soap and hot
				water after using a toilet or urinal and directly before beginning their duties
				and at all other times when necessary so that their hands may be clean and
				their duties may be performed in a sanitary manner.
(l) No person shall work in the servicing of
				land and air conveyances with water, foods or drinks who is affected with any
				disease in a communicable form or is a carrier of such disease nor shall any
				such person or any person suspected of being affected with any disease in a
				communicable form or of being a carrier of such disease be employed. If the
				person having administrative direction of employees engaged in the handling of
				water, foods or drinks suspects that any employee has contracted any disease in
				a communicable form or has become a carrier of such disease, he shall
				immediately notify the local director of health. A placard containing this
				section shall be posted in all toilet rooms used by handlers of water, foods or
				drinks. When suspicion arises as to the possibility of transmission of
				infection from any person employed in the servicing of land and air conveyances
				with water, foods or drinks, the local director of health is authorized to
				require any or all of the following measures: (1) The immediate exclusion of
				the employee from the handling of water, foods or drinks, (2) the immediate
				closing of the public eating or drinking places concerned until no further
				danger of disease outbreak exists, in the opinion of the local director of
				health, (3) adequate medical examinations of the employee and of his
				associates, with such laboratory examinations as may be indicated.
(See Reg. 19-13-A23.)