The following shall be considered to be hygienic and sanitary premises:

• Wardrobes
• umywalnie,
• Paragraphs
• rooms with showers,
• dining rooms (except canteens),
• rooms for shelter from the cold,
• rooms for washing, disinfecting, drying, dedusting working or protective clothing.

According to the regulation of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy on general occupational health and safety regulations (hereinafter: the regulation on BHP),these rooms should be located in the building where the work takes place or in a building connected to it by an enclosed passage. This passage should be heated in the case of transition from heated spaces. These requirements shall not apply to paragraphs fitted with leak-proof waste tanks as well as to heating rooms for workers working in open air.

The Regulation on General Health and Safety Regulations defines the type and size of hygienic and sanitary rooms in the workplace and presents what requirements they should meet, namely:

• hygienic and sanitary rooms should be adapted to the number of employees employed, the technologies and types of work used, as well as working conditions,
• they should be kept in a condition which ensures their safe and hygienic use, this rule also applies to equipment located in the premises,
• their location should exclude the need to pass through rooms where poisonous substances or infectious materials are used or particularly dirty work is carried out (except for workers working with these agents),
• should be heated, illuminated and ventilated in accordance with technical and construction regulations and Polish Standards,
• the height of the rooms should not be less than 2.5 m in the light (except for public baths, their height should be at least 3.0 m). The regulations allow the height of the rooms to be reduced to 2.2 m in the light in relation to basements, cellars or attics (excluding publicly available toilets and baths).

The employer should arrange changing rooms in separate or separate rooms. The conditions they should meet are:

• they should be dry and, as far as possible, illuminated by daylight. They may be organised in basements or basements provided that adequate insulation of the external walls and floors has been applied to protect the rooms against moisture and excessive heat loss and to ensure conditions for the evacuation of persons from these rooms;
• air exchange at least four times per hour shall be ensured and, in changing rooms fitted with openable windows for no more than 10 workers, the air exchange shall not be less than twice per hour;
• mechanical ventilation should be installed in a cloakroom for at least 25 workers;
• changing rooms should include seating for at least 50 % of the employees of the largest shift;
• the width of the passage between the two rows of cabinets and the main passageways should be not less than 1.5 m. The width of the passages between the rows of cabinets and the wall should be not less than 1.1 m.

The cloakroom team should include washrooms, which are easy for employees to access. Running cold and warm water should be supplied to the washbasins.  For every eight workers in the largest shift who perform work that contaminates their bodies, there should be at least one spray booth. For work on poisonous, infectious, radioactive, irritating or sensitising substances and other substances with an unpleasant odour, as well as on work which is dusty in a humid and hot microclimate or which causes intense soiling, at least one spray booth shall be provided for every five workers – but not less than one with fewer employees. In addition, washroom rooms should allow air exchange at least two hours per hour, and rooms with showers at least 5 times per hour.

The location of the toilets is no more than 75 m from the workplace. A greater distance is possible only in relation to workers who work permanently in the open, but not more than 125 m from the farthest workplace. In buildings on each floor there should be toilets. If there are fewer than 10 employees working on each floor, then the toilets can be located no further than on the adjacent floor. The entrance to them should lead directly from corridors or roads of general communication. For every 30 men employed in one shift, there should be at least one toilet bowl and one urinal. For every 20 women employed on one shift, there should be one toilet bowl. In addition, the toilet should have an entrance insulating room, having washbasins with a supply of hot and cold water. The number of washbasins is one in three toilet bowls or urinals (not less than one sink).

If the workplace employs more than 20 employees on one shift, then the employer should organize a room for eating meals – a dining room. This requirement does not apply to companies where only office work is performed.

If the workplace employs from 20 to 200 women in one building, the employer is obliged to organize a personal hygiene cabin in the washroom for women equipped with a bidet, a sink with hot running water and a toilet bowl. For every next 200 women, there should be an additional cabin. Its area may not be less than 2.4 m2, and the rooms not less than 8 m2. A workplace employing more than 20 women in one building for one shift should have a separate room with places to rest in a supine position for pregnant women and nursing mothers. It should be assumed that one place falls for every 300 employed women on one shift (not less than one place).

Source:  https://poradnikprzedsiebiorcy.pl/-pomieszczenia-higieniczno-sanitarne

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