Mich. Admin. Code 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.
Notes
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