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1992 Workplace Regs question

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Seainasive · 03/10/2025 17:06

Asking as my office is in a building with a different tenant on each floor, with toilets off the stairwell not in our office. Toilets are the usual cubicles with shared wash basins, and are unisex. Nobody likes this but the building manager won’t change them.

they say it’s fine as each cubicle can be locked.

where does it actually say that a unisex toilet must be self contained? The words of the relevant clause in the regs are not that specific.

I should maybe put this in Legal but thought I might have more luck here!

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thirdfiddle · 03/10/2025 17:17

This?
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3004/regulation/20

"separate rooms containing conveniences are provided for men and women except where and so far as each convenience is in a separate room the door of which is capable of being secured from inside"

It is obvious that cubicles aren't a feasible reading of separate rooms, otherwise all it's banning is open plan loos which was never a thing in the first place.

The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3004/regulation/20