(1) Urinal accommodation shall be provided in every industrial premises (other than industrial premises where less than fifty persons are employed or where the latrines are connected to a water-borne sewage system) and such accommodation shall not be less than six meters in length for every fifty employees:
Provided that where the number of employees employed on the premises exceeds five hundred, it shall be sufficient if there is one urinal for every fifty employees up to the first five hundred employees and one for every hundred in excess thereof.
Explanation- In calculating the urinal accommodation required under this rule, any odd number of employees less than fifty or hundred, as the case may be, shall be reckoned as fifty or hundred.
(2) Where female employees are employed in an industrial premises, separate urinal accommodation shall be provided for them in accordance with the same scale as the scale for male employees specified in sub-rule.
17. Latrines and urinals to be connected to sewage system wherever possible- When any general system of underground sewage with an assured water-supply is provided for or exists in any particular locality, all latrines and urinals in an industrial premises in such locality other than a septic tank latrine, shall be connected with such sewage system. Latrines other than those connected with such sewage system if the industrial premises is situated within 30.5 meters of that sewage system. Latrines other than those connected with an efficient water-borne sewage system shall comply with the requirement of public health authority.
Urinals other than those connected with an efficient water borne sewage system and urinals in industrials premises wherein more than two hundred and fifty employees are ordinarly employed shall comply with the requirements of the public health authority.