Pennsylvania Code › Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY › Part I - Department of Labor and Industry › Chapter 47 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › Subchapter E - FOUNDRIES › SPECIFICATIONS › Section 47.165 - Sanitary conveniences

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
Toilet rooms.
Each foundry employing ten or more persons shall
					 provide and maintain for the use of the employes, in a place conveniently
					 accessible and connected with the foundry making it accessible without exposure
					 to the open air, a toilet room of suitable size in which the employes may
					 change their clothes. The toilet rooms shall have washbowls or washtroughs so
					 arranged that water does not stand in them, of sufficient capacity adequately
					 equipped with hot and cold water service. The washrooms shall be kept clean and
					 sanitary and properly heated during cold weather. Each foundry shall establish
					 and maintain separate from such toilet rooms, a suitable water closet. The
					 toilet room and the water closet shall be connected with the foundry building
					 making them accessible to it without exposure to the open air. They shall be
					 properly heated, ventilated, cleaned and protected from the dust of the
					 foundry. The requirement of the covered passageway between the foundry and the
					 toilet rooms shall not apply to employes who as an ordinary part of their
					 occupation work out of doors at all seasons of the year.
(b)
Toilet facilities.
Each
					 foundry shall provide water closets or chemicals closets of an approved type,
					 separate for each sex, in accordance with the following table:
Number of
								  Persons
Number of
								  Closets
Ratio
1-10
1
1:10
11-25
2
1:12 1/2
26-50
3
1:16 2/3
51-80
4
1:20
81-125
5
1:25
(c)
Additional employes.
For
					 each additional 45 employes, or part of that number, the foundry shall provide
					 one additional water closet.
(d)
Number of employes.
If less than 30 males are employed at one
					 time, there shall be provided one individual urinal. If more than 30 and less
					 than 80 males are employed, two urinals shall be provided, and thereafter one
					 individual urinal shall be provided for every 80 men, or part of that number,
					 employed. At least two linear feet of trough or slab urinal shall be considered
					 the equivalent of one individual urinal.
(e)
Washbasins.
Washbasins
					 with faucets for hot and cold water shall be supplied in accordance with the
					 following table:
Number of
								  Persons
Number of Wash
								  Basins
Ratio
1-8
1
1:8
9-16
2
1:8
17-30
3
1:10
31-45
4
1:11 1/4
46-65
5
1:13
(f)
Additional employes.
For
					 each additional 25 employes, or part of that number, at least one additional
					 washbasin shall be supplied. Two feet of trough and two faucets supplying hot
					 and cold water, so arranged that the water supply may be mixed to the desired
					 temperature, shall be considered the equivalent of a washbasin as setout in
					 subsection (e). If it is desirable to mix the water supply at some location
					 remote from the trough, an outlet for the mixed supply shall be provided for at
					 least every 2 feet of trough.
(g)
Shower baths.
Washrooms installed after 1927, where 20 to 50
					 men are employed, shall be provided with at least one shower bath with an ample
					 supply of hot and cold water. For each additional 50 men, or part of that
					 number, at least one additional shower bath shall be provided.
(h)
Passageway.
If workmen
					 are employed in heated rooms or buildings of foundries, and the required toilet
					 facilities are provided in adjacent buildings or rooms, a covered passageway
					 leading to such facilities shall be made to protect the workmen from a sudden
					 change of temperature.
(i)
Calculation.
In using the tables of this section for
					 calculating the number of facilities required, the maximum number of persons
					 using the facilities at any time may be considered rather than the total number
					 of persons employed.