3717-1-04.3(C) Equipment, utensils, and linens: location and installation

Fixed equipment installation - elevation or sealing.

(1)

Floor-mounted equipment that is not easily movable is to be sealed to the floor or elevated on legs that provide at least a six inch (fifteen centimeter) clearance between the floor and the equipment. This paragraph does not apply:

(a)

If no part of the floor under the floor-mounted equipment is more than six inches (fifteen centimeters) from the point of cleaning access, the clearance space may be only four inches (ten centimeters).

(b)

To display shelving units, display refrigeration units, and display freezer units located in the consumer shopping areas of a food service operation or retail food establishment, if the floor under the units is maintained clean.

(2)

Counter-mounted equipment that is not easily movable is to be elevated on legs that provide at least a four inch (ten centimeter) clearance between the counter and the equipment, unless the horizontal distance of the counter top under the equipment from the point of access for cleaning is no more than:

(a)

Twenty inches (fifty centimeters) and the clearance space is at least three inches (7.5 centimeters); or

(b)

Three inches (7.5 centimeters) and the clearance space is at least two inches (five centimeters).