For the purposes of this rule, a restroom is a room maintained on the premises for use by employees that contains a
toilet. This includes outhouses.
You must:
(1) Provide enough toilets for the camp's capacity.
• Toilets and outhouses must be provided in a ratio of
one for every fifteen people, with a minimum of two units for
any facility shared by men and women.
Note:
Check with your local jurisdictions for regulations regarding outhouses.
(2) Have enough rest rooms for each sex based on the
maximum number of persons the camp is designed to house at any
one time.
(3) Provide separate rest rooms for each sex wherever
rest rooms are in buildings shared by men and women.
• Distinctly mark the rooms "men" and "women" with:
– Signs printed in English and in the native language of
the persons occupying the camp
OR
– Easily understood pictures or symbols.
• If the facilities for each sex are in the same
building, they must be separated by:
– Solid walls
OR
– Partitions extending from the floor to the roof or
ceiling.
(4) Make sure:
• No one has to pass through a sleeping room to reach a
rest room
• Rest rooms have a window of at least six square feet
opening directly to the outside, or are satisfactorily
ventilated
• All outside openings are screened with 16-mesh material
• Fixtures, toilets, chemical toilets, or urinals are not
located in a room used for other than toilet purposes
• A rest room is within two hundred feet of the door of
each sleeping room
• Any outhouse is at least one hundred feet away from any
sleeping room, dining room, lunch area, or kitchen.
(5) Provide urinals as follows:
• One urinal or two linear feet of urinal trough for each
twenty-five men
• Construct the floor out of materials that are moisture
proof, from the wall and out at least fifteen inches from the
outer edge of the urinals
• Have an adequate water flush in urinals when water
under pressure is available
• Urinal troughs in outhouses must:
– Drain freely into the pit or vault
AND
– Have a drain constructed to exclude flies and rodents
from the pit.
(6) Install any new toilets in a rest room.
(7) Make sure:
• There is an adequate supply of toilet paper for each
rest room, outhouse, or chemical toilet