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12. Suitable W.C. accommodation to be provided for hands employed.
13. Storage (water) cisterns to be of the most approved type with dust-tight fixed covers.
14. Provision to be made for hanging wearing apparel (not worn by staff during
working hours) in a suitable place outside Bakehouse.
15. Flour not to be deposited immediately on the floor, but to be stacked upon small,
trestles or a wooden platform raised 12 inches above the floor.
16. All dough troughs, benches, &c., in Bakehouse to be provided with castors or
wheels, where necessary, to render them easily moveable.
17. Any shelves necessary, to be fixed two inches away from walls, and all unnecessary
woodwork to be removed from walls.
18. Jet and hose to be provided, with the necessary connection to a proper water supply
for washing down the Bakehouse in an efficient manner.
19. A sufficient number of metal bins, with tightly fittiug covers, for reluse to be
provided.
KITCHENS OF RESTAURANTS, &c.
Standard for Voluntary Certificates.
(I.) CONSTRUCTION.
1. Floors, walls and ceilings to be finished to a hard smooth surface impervious to
moisture.
2. Where practicable, the floor of the Kitchen to be laid to proper falls and be drained
by suitable channels leading to a gully outside the Kitchen.
3. The finished walls of the Kitchen to be absolutely free from dampness. Should damp
walls exist, an inner wall of brick-work, at least half-a-brick thick, to be built with a space
between it and the damp wall of two inches, such space to be ventilated and drained, and
such half-brick wall to be tied to the existing wall—or some other equally efficient and
approved method is to be adopted for ensuring absolute dryness.
4. The joints of any drain passing beneath the floor of the Kitchen to be gas and
water-tight, and all pipes and sanitary fittings to be of the most efficient and approved
type. Covers to inspection chambers to drains to be of metal, and to be doable covers,
both covers having an efficient seal.
5. The Kitchen to have a minimum height of 8 ft., a minimum cubic capacity of
1,500 ft., except under special circumstances, and not less than 400 cubic ft. per head for
each person employed therein.