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(a) In factories or workshops where the number of males employed
or in attendance exceeds 100, and sufficient urinal accommodation
is also provided, it shall be sufficient if there is one
sanitary convenience for every 25 males up to the first 100,
and for every 40 after.
(b) In factories or workshops where the number of males employed
or in attendance exceeds 500, and the District Inspector of
Factories certifies in writing that by means of a check
system, or otherwise, proper supervision and control in regard
to the use of the conveniences are exercised by officers
specially appointed for that purpose, it shall be sufficient if
one sanitary convenience is provided for every 60 males, in
addition to sufficient urinal accommodation. Any certificate
given by an Inspector shall be kept attached to the general
register, and shall be liable at any time to be revoked by
notice in writing from the Inspector.
In calculating the number of conveniences required by this order,
any odd number of persons less than 25, 40, or 60, as the case may be,
shall be reckoned as 25, 40, or 60.
2. Every sanitary convenience shall be kept in a cleanly state,
shall be sufficiently ventilated and lighted, and shall not communicate
with any work-room except through the open air or through an
intervening ventilated space: provided that in work-rooms in use
prior to 1st January, 1903, and mechanically ventilated in such manner
that air cannot be drawn into the work-room through the sanitary
convenience, an intervening ventilated space shall not be required.
3. Every sanitary convenience shall be under cover and so
partitioned off as to secure privacy, and if for the use of females
shall have a proper door and fastenings.
4. The sanitary conveniences in a factory or workshop shall be so
arranged and maintained as to be conveniently accessible to all persons
employed therein at all times during their employment.
5. Where persons of both sexes are employed, the conveniences for
each sex shall be so placed or so screened that the interior shall not be
visible, even when the door of any convenience is open, from any place
where persons of the other sex have to work or pass ; and, if the conveniences
for one sex adjoin those for the other sex, the approaches
shall be separate.
6. This order shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1903.
7. This order may be referred to as the Sanitary Accommodation
Order of 4th February, 1903.
A. Akers Douglas,
One of His Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State,
Home Office, Whitehall,
4th February, 1903.