As an employer of site crews, you are obliged to provide adequate welfare facilities and portable toilets for your personnel while they are at work - be it a roadworks project, commercial new build, office renovation or telecom repair works. Regardless of whether these are short term, temporary or multi-month lasting projects, as far as it is reasonable and practicable, you must supply adequate, clean and safe welfare facilities. It must be very costly to do so, or physically impossible, to provide such portable sanitation units for you to be relieved of this obligation. What exactly are welfare facilities for construction sites though? These typically include portable toilets, mains connect or chemical toilets, hand washing facilities, rest and changing space, locker and clean space for food consumption. As long as it is reasonable to do so, there should be separate toilets provided for male and female staff. When it comes to clothes changing area and lockers, these do not...
Guidelines for adequate provision of welfare and portable sanitation on construction sites. What are the rules that apply to domestic and commercial construction projects, as a site manager, what type of portable welfare and mobile toilets are you obliged to provide for your crew on site? We explain the UK's regulations for health and safety on development sites, telecom repair sites or roadworks.