Canada – Nova Scotia Offshore Marine Installations and Structures Occupational Health and Safety Transitional Regulations

92 (1) Every employer must provide wash basins in each toilet room as follows:

• (a) if the room contains one or two toilets or urinals, one wash basin; and

• (b) if the room contains more than two toilets or urinals, one wash basin for every additional two toilets or urinals.

(2) If an outdoor privy is provided, the employer must provide wash basins required by subsection (1) as close to the outdoor privy as is reasonably practicable.

(3) An industrial wash trough or circular wash basin of a capacity equivalent to the aggregate of the minimum capacities of the wash basins referred to in subsection (1) may be provided in place of the wash basins.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the minimum capacity of a wash basin must be determined by reference to the applicable municipal by-laws or provincial regulations or, if there are no such by-laws or regulations, by reference to the National Plumbing Code of Canada, 2010.