25.—(1) Suitable and sufficient rest facilities shall be provided at readily accessible places.
(2) Rest facilities provided by virtue of paragraph (1) shall—
(a)where necessary for reasons of health or safety include, in the case of a new workplace, an extension or a conversion, rest facilities provided in one or more rest rooms, or, in other cases, in rest rooms or rest areas;
(b)include suitable facilities to eat meals where food eaten in the workplace would otherwise be likely to become contaminated.
[F1(3) Rest rooms and rest areas shall—
(a)include suitable arrangements to protect non-smokers from discomfort caused by tobacco smoke; and
(b)be equipped with—
(i)an adequate number of tables and adequate seating with backs for the number of persons at work likely to use them at any one time; and
(ii)seating which is adequate for the number of disabled persons at work and suitable for them.]
(4) Suitable facilities shall be provided for any person at work who is a pregnant woman or nursing mother to rest.
(5) Suitable and sufficient facilities shall be provided for persons at work to eat meals where meals are regularly eaten in the workplace.
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 25(3) substituted (17.9.2002) by The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2174), regs. 1, 6(h)
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