Facilities Regulations, 1990
4. Change-rooms

 

1.    In respect of employees -

a.    for whom showers are prescribed, or

b.    who need to undress, the employer shall provide separate change- rooms for males and females respectively, in accordance with the provisions of Part C of SABS 0400.

2.    An employer contemplated in subregulation (1) shall -

a.    ensure that a change-room is not connected directly by means of a door or any other opening to any room in which the exposure to a high risk substance is equal to or above the action level for such high-risk substance or in which untanned hides or skins or unwashed wool or mohair are treated, processed or stored;

b.    provide adequate seating in the form of chairs or benches in every change-room for the maximum number of employees that will be using such change-room at any one time;

c.    not store any materials, tools or other goods not related to the use of a change-room in such change-room or allow such items to be stored therein;

d.    where a change-room has windows, glaze such windows in obscure glass or similar material;

e.    screen the entrance to every change-room in order to afford privacy; provide a conspicuous sign at the entrance to a change- room to indicate the sex of the persons for whom the change-room is intended;

f.     provide a conspicuous sign at the entrance to a change-room to indicate the sex of the persons for whom the change-room is intended;

g.    provide facilities for the drying of wet clothes, if clothes of the employees for whom a change-room has been provided, may become wet in the course of their work;

h.    ensure that every change-room is naturally or artificially ventilated in accordance with the provisions of Part O of the National Building Regulations; and

i.     ensure that no employee referred to in subregulation (1) changes his clothing at any other place at a workplace that in a change- room provided for him.

3.    Subject to the provisions of regulation 5 an employer may allow a change-room to be used for the partaking of meals provided that -

a.    an obscure partition of at least two meters high is installed between showers and eating places; and

b.    there is no direct communication between the change-room and toilet facilities.