R 408.40130 General sanitation.

Rule 130. (1) The employer shall provide adequate washing facilities for employees engaged in the application of paints, coating, herbicides, or insecticides, or in other operations where contaminants may be harmful to the employees. Such facilities shall be in near proximity to the worksite and shall be so equipped as to enable employees to remove such substances. (2) Washing facilities shall be maintained in a sanitary condition. (3) All of the following apply to lavatories. (a) Lavatories shall be made available in all places of employment. The requirements of this subdivision do not apply to mobile crews or to normally unattended work locations if employees working at these locations have transportation readily available to nearby washing facilities that meet the other requirements of this paragraph. (b) Each lavatory shall be provided with hot and cold running water, or tepid running water. (c) Hand soap or similar cleansing agents shall be provided. (d) Individual hand towels or sections thereof, of cloth or paper, air blowers or clean individual sections of continuous cloth toweling, convenient to the lavatories, shall be provided. (4) All of the following apply to showers. (a) Whenever showers are required by a particular standard, the showers shall be provided in accordance with subdivisions (b) to (d) of this subrule. (b) One shower shall be provided for each 10 employees of each sex, or numerical fraction thereof, who are required to shower during the same shift. (c) Body soap or other appropriate cleansing agents convenient to the showers shall be provided as specified in subrule (3)(c) of this rule. (d) Showers shall be provided with hot and cold water feeding a common discharge line. (e) Employees who use showers shall be provided with individual clean towels. (5) Eating and drinking areas. An employee shall not be allowed to consume food or beverages in a toilet room nor in any area exposed to a toxic material. (6) Every enclosed workplace shall be so constructed, equipped, and maintained, so far as reasonably practicable, as to prevent the entrance or harborage of rodents, insects, and other vermin. An employer shall institute a continuing and effective extermination program where their presence is detected. (7) Whenever employees are required by a particular standard to wear protective clothing because of the possibility of contamination with toxic materials, the employer shall provide change rooms equipped with storage facilities for street clothes and separate storage facilities for the protective clothing.