18.1. Changing rooms and lockers

Council Directive 89/654/EEC of 30 November 1989 concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the workplace (first individual directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) · European Union

Appropriate changing rooms must be provided for workers if they have to wear special work clothes and where, for reasons of health or propriety, they cannot be expected to change in another room. Changing rooms must be easily accessible, be of sufficient capacity and be provided with seating. Changing rooms must be sufficiently large and have facilities to enable each worker to lock away his clothes during working hours. If circumstances so require (e.g. dangerous substances, humidity, dirt), lockers for work clothes must be separate from those for ordinary clothes. Provision must be made for separate changing rooms or separate use of changing rooms for men and women. If changing rooms are not required under 18.1.1, each worker must be provided with a place to store his clothes.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.