The Regional Director for Business, Competition, Consumer Affairs, Labour and Employment may grant an establishment a temporary or permanent exemption from some of the requirements laid down in this chapter, on the basis of a proposal for compensatory measures ensuring a level of safety deemed equivalent, when it is recognised that it is practically impossible to apply one of these requirements.
Exemption is granted after investigation by the Labour Inspectorate. It is granted after obtaining the opinion of: 1° The social and economic committee; 2° The departmental consultative committee on safety and accessibility for establishments open to the public.
A decision by the Regional Director of Business, Competition, Consumer Affairs, Labour and Employment will be deemed to have been rejected if the competent Minister to whom the matter is referred remains silent for more than four months in the event of a hierarchical appeal.
The employer shall provide workers with the means to ensure their personal cleanliness, in particular changing rooms, washbasins, toilets and, where appropriate, showers.
Collective changing rooms and washbasins must be installed in a special room with a suitable surface area, isolated from the work and storage rooms and located close to the workers’ passageways. Where changing rooms and washbasins are installed in separate rooms, it must be possible to communicate between them without passing through the work or storage rooms and without going outside. For workers who are not obliged to wear specific…
The floors and walls of communal changing rooms and washrooms must be such that they can be effectively cleaned. These areas are kept in a constant state of cleanliness.
Communal changing rooms and washrooms are ventilated in accordance with the ventilation and sanitation rules in Chapter II and are suitably heated.
In establishments employing a mixed workforce, separate facilities are provided for male and female workers.
The collective changing rooms are equipped with a sufficient number of seats and individual non-flammable cupboards. These lockers can hold two pairs of street clothes. Where work clothing is likely to be soiled with dangerous, dirty or smelly substances, the lockers include a compartment reserved for such clothing. Individual lockers are fitted with a lock or padlock.
The washbasins have drinking water. The water is temperature-controlled and distributed at a rate of one washbasin for every ten workers at most. Appropriate means of cleaning and drying or wiping are provided for workers. They are maintained or changed whenever necessary.
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