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Having to go down four flights of stairs to go to a bathroom is ridiculous. I wonder if this is an unexpected side-effect of automating warehouses. Normally, b
by cbhl 9y ago
Having to go down four flights of stairs to go to a bathroom is ridiculous.
I wonder if this is an unexpected side-effect of automating warehouses. Normally, bathrooms are required by OSHA, but the relevant code appears to dictate only the number of bathrooms required by the number of employees on a site[0].
Adding bathrooms to a building is an expensive retrofit; I can't imagine this situation getting better without regulation.
My inclination would be to try and lobby congress to require bathrooms within X feet of employees on every floor, or require Y bathrooms per Z square feet of space. (But what about edge cases? What do construction workers do in high rises?)
[0] https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2017-title29-vol5/xml/CFR-2017-title29-vol5-sec1910-141.xml https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2017-title29-vol5/xml/CFR-...