Occupational Health and Safety Code

354

An employer must not place unreasonable restrictions on a worker’s use of, or access to, any of the facilities required by this Part.

355(1)

An employer must ensure that an adequate supply of drinking fluids is available to workers at a work site.

355(2)

The drinking fluids available at a work site must include potable water.

355(3)

Unless water is provided by a drinking fountain, the employer must ensure that an adequate supply of single‑use drinking cups is provided in a sanitary container located by the water supply.

355(4)

If there are outlets at a work site for both potable water and non‑potable fluid, the employer must ensure that the outlet for potable water has a prominent label that clearly indicates drinking water.

356

Sections 357 to 361 do not apply to

(a) a food establishment or other work site for which there are specific regulations under the Public Health Act, or

(b) a mobile or temporary work site at which work is being performed for a period of not more than 5 working days if the employer has arranged for workers to use local toilet facilities during that period.

357(1)

Subject to subsection (2), an employer must ensure that a work site has the number of toilets for each sex that are required by Schedule 7, in separate toilet facilities.

357(2)

A work site may have only one toilet facility for the use of both sexes if

(a) the total number of workers at the work site is never more than 10, and

(b) the door to the toilet facility can be locked from the inside.

357(3)

If 3 or more toilets are required for men, an employer may substitute not more than 2/3 of the toilets with urinals.

357(4)

If 2 toilets are required for men, an employer may substitute one of them with a urinal.

357(5)

An employer must ensure that a toilet facility is located so that it is readily accessible to the workers who may use it.

357(6), (7)

Repealed.

358(1)

If a work site is connected to a public or municipal water main and sanitary drainage system, the employer must ensure that the toilets are connected to that system.

358(2)

If a work site is not connected to a public or municipal water main and sanitary drainage system, the employer must ensure that the toilets are self‑contained units or connected to a septic tank.

358(3)

An employer must ensure that a toilet that is a self‑contained unit is emptied and serviced at regular intervals to ensure the unit does not overflow.

359(1)

An employer must ensure that at least one wash basin or hand cleaning facility is provided in a toilet facility.

359(2)

An employer must ensure that there is one wash basin or hand cleaning facility for every 2 toilets in addition to the wash basin or hand cleaning facility required under subsection (1) if 3 or more toilets are required in a toilet facility.

359(3)

An employer may substitute circular wash fountains for wash basins or hand cleaning facilities required by subsections (1) and (2) on the basis that each 500 millimetres of the fountain’s circumference is equivalent to one wash basin or hand cleaning facility.

360

An employer must ensure that a toilet facility at a work site has

(a) toilet paper available at each toilet,

(b) hand cleaning agents and single‑use towels of cloth or paper, or air hand drying equipment, at each wash basin or hand cleaning facility, and

(c) a covered disposal container for feminine hygiene products near each toilet used by women.

361(1)

An employer must ensure that a lunch room, change room, toilet, urinal, wash basin, hand cleaning facility, circular wash fountain or shower at a work site is clean and sanitary and operational.

361(2)

An employer must ensure that changing rooms, lunch rooms, toilet facilities and rooms in which a wash basin or shower are located are not used as storage areas for materials unless the storage facilities are properly constructed for those materials.