Temporary Housing
for Workers
Chapter 296-833, WAC |
Effective
Date: 12/01/02 |
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WAC 296-833-200
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Your responsibility:
To provide and maintain safe and healthful
housing for your temporary workers.
You must:
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and maintain sufficient grounds and open areas in
temporary housing sites
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| Follow these design
and equipment requirements for shelters |
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Provide and maintain sufficient grounds and
open areas in temporary housing sites.
You must:
(1) Make sure that all temporary
housing sites:
- Are adequately drained and are free from ground
depressions in which water may accumulate
- Have no history of flooding
- Don't endanger any domestic or public water
supply with their drainage
- Are located at least 200 feet from a
swamp, pool, sink hole, or other surface collection of water
unless the water surface can be treated for mosquito control.
(2) Make sure the housing area is
large enough to prevent the buildings from being crowded too closely
together.
(3) Make sure the principal housing
areas for sleeping and food preparation/eating are at least 500
feet from livestock operations.
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Note:
Livestock operations include, among other
things, dairy farms, corrals, slaughterhouses, feedlots,
and stockyards. Operations where livestock can roam on a
pasture over a distance may be treated as outside the definition.
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(4) Make sure that grounds and open
areas surrounding the shelters are maintained in a clean and sanitary
condition.
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Follow these design and equipment requirements
for shelters.
You must:
(1) Make sure that every shelter
in the camp provides protection against the elements.
(2) Make sure each dwelling unit:
- Has at least 70 square feet of floor space
for the first occupant and at least 50 square feet of floor
space for each additional occupant
- That is designated a family unit has a separate
sleeping area for children over 6 years old
- With designated sleeping room(s) has at least
50 square feet of floor space in the sleeping room for each
occupant
- Has at least a 7-foot ceiling
- Has windows:
- - Covering a total area equal to
at least 1/10 of the floor area
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- - At least 1/2 of which can be opened
for ventilation
- Has each exterior opening screened with 16-mesh
material
- Has screen doors with self-closing devices.
(3) Make sure that the floors of
each shelter are constructed of wood, asphalt, or concrete.
- Floors must be kept in good repair
- If wooden floors are used, they must be:
- - Elevated one foot above ground
level at all points to prevent dampness and to permit free
air circulation
- - Smooth and tight.
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Note:
You may "bank" around outside
walls with earth or other suitable material to guard against
extreme low temperatures.
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(4) Provide beds, cots, or bunks,
and suitable storage facilities such as wall lockers for clothing
and personal articles in every sleeping room.
- Beds must be at least 36 inches away from
other beds, both side to side and end to end
- The frame of the bed must keep mattresses
at least 12 inches off the floor
- Double-deck bunks must be spaced at least
48 inches away from other beds, both side to side and end to
end
- The minimum clear space between lower and
upper bunks must be at least 27 inches
- Triple-deck bunks are not allowed.
(5) Provide equipment that adequately
heats the living area whenever the camp is used during cold weather.
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Note:
All heating, cooking, and water heating
equipment must meet state and local ordinances, codes, and
regulations concerning installation.
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