TORONTO — Ontario’s labour minister is aiming to solve an excrement predicament.
“It’s just a big pile of feces,” said iron worker Mahee de Repentigny in a video featured on McNaughton’s Twitter feed.She said she will sometimes have to leave work to find a Tim Hortons bathroom because the toilet on the site feels unsafe.
Requiring at least one women’s only toilet on large construction sites is one of a host of regulatory changes McNaughton is proposing. They come in conjunction with labour legislation set to be introduced this spring that includes greater protections for remote workers in mass layoffs and other, yet-to-be-announced changes.
The bathroom-related changes would also double the number of toilets required on construction sites, require adequate lighting, require hand sanitizer where there is no running water, and require single toilets to be completely enclosed. Some portable toilets are only three-quarters of an adult’s height with no roof, McNaughton said. Those would be banned.Article content“Clearly, that’s not happening,” McNaughton said.
It would also extend the good-repair requirement to urinals and cleanup facilities, such as stations with sinks. McNaughton is also proposing to strengthen language in a requirement that personal protective equipment be properly fitted, so women and “workers with diverse body types” are specifically taken into account.This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 15, 2023.
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