Oil and Gas Occupational Safety and Health Regulations (SOR/87-612)

10.14 (1) Every employer shall provide wash basins in each toilet room as follows:

• (a) where the room contains one or two water closets or urinals, one wash basin; and

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

(2) Where an outdoor privy is provided, the employer shall 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 shall 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 2020, developed by the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes and published by the National Research Council of Canada.