Timeline for Would it be legal for a business to provide only unisex multi person restrooms for use?
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| Jan 7, 2023 at 12:48 | comment | added | reirab | @phoog True. As long as you separately have all of the requirements met for the restrooms that must be available for employees, then there's no reason that you couldn't also allow employees to use others beyond what are required to be available for them, as long as the other ones also comply with whatever the local state plumbing/building codes require. | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 12:19 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | So Ally McBeal was not realistic?? | |
| Jan 7, 2023 at 9:25 | comment | added | phoog | "as opposed to those exclusively for use of patrons": I suspect that it is not necessary to exclude employees from mixed-gender restrooms. Rather, it is likely necessary to supply sufficient segregated restrooms for employees. If there are additional gender-neutral facilities for customers, there's no reason to designate them for the exclusive use of customers. | |
| S Jan 7, 2023 at 6:16 | history | suggested | Canadian Luke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Corrected OSHA
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| Jan 6, 2023 at 21:21 | comment | added | Nobody | @reirab Ok, thanks, got it. | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 21:19 | comment | added | reirab | @Nobody For example, 4 single-fixture bathrooms with 2 marked for women and 2 for men is ok in Maryland, but 4 unisex single-fixture bathrooms is not ok. | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 21:16 | comment | added | reirab | @Nobody For the OSHA regulation, yes, separate rooms (as long as they're actual separate rooms, not just stalls in the same room) with a toilet and a sink are fine and no sex-specific restrooms are required in that case. However, the Maryland plumbing code does not provide such an exception unless the whole facility is only required to have 2 toilets. Even if you made them each have only one toilet fixture in a separate room, they would still have to be signed for men or women in Maryland if the facility is required to have more than 2 total toilet fixtures. | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 21:12 | comment | added | Nobody | @reirab My question was exactly if you couldn't build toilet cubicles that meet the requirements of toilet rooms and I think there is no requirement that the required number of toilet cubicles be provided all in the same toilet room. | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 21:05 | comment | added | reirab | @Nobody Which part? For the OSHA regulation, you can have only separate, single-person restrooms and satisfy the requirement, but I read the question as explicitly excluding that ("These are not single-person rooms, but larger restrooms with numerous toilets.") However, even that would not satisfy the Maryland plumbing code unless the business was small enough to only require 2 toilet fixtures or meets at least one of the stated exceptions. Note that "toilet room" in the OSHA regulation refers to the actual room (i.e. the restroom,) not just the partitioned off part where a toilet fixture is. | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 20:57 | comment | added | Nobody | If I read this correctly, as long as you put a sink/tap in each cubicle and have no urinals, you could have only gender-neutral toilets, no? | |
| Jan 6, 2023 at 18:20 | vote | accept | dsollen | ||
| Jan 6, 2023 at 17:39 | history | edited | reirab | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added requirements from Maryland Plumbing Code for restrooms for use by patrons or the public
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| Jan 6, 2023 at 17:23 | history | edited | reirab | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clarified that this particular regulation applies to restrooms available to employees (as opposed to patrons.)
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| Jan 6, 2023 at 16:50 | history | edited | reirab | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2023 at 16:45 | history | answered | reirab | CC BY-SA 4.0 |