Section 47.196. Dressing rooms

(a) Lockers. The employer shall provide each employe with a sanitary locker. For employes who make changes of clothing and whose working clothes may contaminate their street clothes with lead or other poisonous compounds or materials, the employer shall provide either an additional locker, a double locker, or such change-house facilities as are approved by the Department. All facilities shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Dressing rooms shall be provided for all female employes and shall be of solid construction and entirely separate from any workroom. In the dressing room, clothes hooks may be provided in lieu of lockers for the use of the female employes.

(b) Couches. Unless a hospital or emergency room, exclusively used for that purpose, is provided and maintained, there shall be provided in every dressing room for the use of females at least one couch or bed.