Six employees will work outdoors for an eight-hour shift. Water is not plumbed or continuously supplied, and there will be no replenishment during the shift. How much drinking water must be available at the start?

Explanation

Section 3395(c) requires that, where drinking water is not plumbed or otherwise continuously supplied, enough be provided at the beginning of the work shift for one quart per employee per hour for the entire shift. Six employees times eight hours is 48 quarts, and four quarts make a gallon, so 12 gallons. Forty-eight is that quart figure read as gallons, which is the commonest slip. Six gallons is a gallon a head and loses the hourly rate; eight gallons counts the hours but not the crew. Note the condition in the stem: the employer may begin the shift with a smaller quantity only where it has effective procedures for replenishment during the shift, and this one does not.