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Under California code, when the occupancy is over 100, you need to have separate facilities for the customer and the employees. For the employee's facilities, can they share a common facility? If so, is it dependent on the shift size of the staff?
January 11, 2005 |
Jim
Jim
Dear James,
California is currently not using the IBC as their model code (they are the lone holdout - hopefully that will change), so I'm not sure I can help much. From an IBC viewpoint, the toilet requirements depend a lot on the use and the occupant load count. The term "separate facilities" refers to the requirement to have both men and women's restrooms not that the customer facilites must be different from the employees. Hence you should be able to have customers and employees included in the same occupant load count and have a separate Mens Room and Womens Room that serve both employees and customers.
I recommend contacting a local California architect through the American Institute of Architects - www.aia.org.
Hope this helps!
Your Code Connection Host
California is currently not using the IBC as their model code (they are the lone holdout - hopefully that will change), so I'm not sure I can help much. From an IBC viewpoint, the toilet requirements depend a lot on the use and the occupant load count. The term "separate facilities" refers to the requirement to have both men and women's restrooms not that the customer facilites must be different from the employees. Hence you should be able to have customers and employees included in the same occupant load count and have a separate Mens Room and Womens Room that serve both employees and customers.
I recommend contacting a local California architect through the American Institute of Architects - www.aia.org.
Hope this helps!
Your Code Connection Host
January 14, 2005 |
T. Welker AIA
T. Welker AIA
