SQF 13.3.5.3 - Requirements for Toilet Rooms and Stalls

Briefly, can a toilet stall within a room be counted as an "adjoining room" to meet the snippet of code below? If not, does the "adjoining room" need to have a door or is a division/wall acceptable?

13.3.5.3 Toilet rooms shall be: 

ii. Accessed from operations via an airlock vented to the exterior or through an adjoining room;

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My interpretation is that the bathroom needs to be separated from operations by at least one non-operations room. I would not consider a partition in front of the bathroom door acceptable, it needs to be separated from operations by a sealed room with a door.

Never liked the way that was written.

The bathroom would have a door and positive airflow to the exterior.

I interpret it as you need two doors to go through to get to your bathroom.

Been dinged on this before and challenged and won the challenge.  The bathroom can not be open directly into production.  You need to have a door and airflow that exhausts out of the building (not into production).  If you do not have exhaust in the bathroom, then you need a second barrier, so another door.  If the bathroom is in a room outside of production, then you have no worries.  For instance ours is another room outside of production, in the break room.  Having said that, we still have doors and exhaust on them.  It would depend what function your adjoining room has in my opinion.

I'm needing some guidance on how they determine the number of bathrooms that are required for the number of employee and where can I find that information?

I'm needing some guidance on how they determine the number of bathrooms that are required for the number of employee and where can I find that information?

Check with your country's work place laws, but in the US this is OSHA's regulation. 

As long as you don't have people crowding to go to the bathroom or not washing their hands because there is no room during the audit, I think it will appear that you have enough. But if you want some reasoning for more facilities, SQF 2.1.1.1 iv. Comply with customer and regulatory requirements to supply safe food. OSHA is personnel safety, but personnel safety usually directly impacts food safety. And OSHA is a regulatory requirement (assuming you are US). 

And forget what I said earlier, that was for temporary facilities. This is for permanent ones:

The whole code can be found here:

https:/​/​www.ecfr.gov/​current/​title-29/​part-1910/​section-1910.141#p-1910.141©