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Article R4534-141 of the French Labour Code

Employers shall provide workers with a sufficient quantity of drinking water to ensure their personal cleanliness. Where it is impossible to install running water, a drinking water tank of sufficient capacity shall be connected to the washbasins to enable them to be supplied.
On the sites mentioned in Article R. 4534-137, washbasins or handrails are installed, if possible with adjustable temperature, at the rate of one opening for every ten workers.
Appropriate means of cleaning and drying or wiping, which are maintained and changed whenever necessary, are made available to workers.

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Article R4534-141


Les employeurs mettent à la disposition des travailleurs une quantité d’eau potable suffisante pour assurer leur propreté individuelle. Lorsqu’il est impossible de mettre en place l’eau courante, un réservoir d’eau potable d’une capacité suffisante est raccordé aux lavabos afin de permettre leur alimentation.
Dans les chantiers mentionnés à l’article R. 4534-137, sont installés des lavabos ou des rampes, si possible à température réglable, à raison d’un orifice pour dix travailleurs.
Des moyens de nettoyage et de séchage ou d’essuyage appropriés, entretenus et changés chaque fois que nécessaire, sont mis à disposition des travailleurs.

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