Inside nightmare workplace where employees have to ask for TOILET PAPER

A damning report details the appalling working conditions of Baltimore City employees, some of whom are required to ask for toilet paper under facility policy.

Baltimore City Inspector General Isabel Cumming discovered earlier this month that Public Works Department employees had been working at the Cherry Hill Reedbird Yard in extreme heat without the city providing them with cold water or proper cooling facilities. This was reported by CBS News.

Since then, she has visited eight other facilities – and returned to the Reedbird Yard – where mostly solid waste workers report, and she has found even more problems that she details in a 46-page report.

Cumming noted that employees at Bowley’s Lane have to ask for toilet paper before using the restroom because the men’s cubicles are not stocked with the essential item.

“There was no toilet paper and it wasn’t just that there was no toilet paper — that’s just the way they work,” she told CBS News.

She visited the Bowley Lane facility and noticed a number of problems

Cumming explained in her report that “the toilet paper is stored in a warehouse at a supplier’s premises,” a practice she wanted the Public Works Department to “stop immediately.”

She wrote that instead, toilet paper should be placed in the bathrooms of all waste processors and workers.

The report also found that some employees of the Public Works Department suffered from heat-related illnesses, with at least one of them even fainting.

Cumming said they have ‘hot water’ in the changing rooms at the Bowley Lane complex.

“They had a fan that was barely running and the air conditioning was only 85 degrees,” she told CBS.

Also, some service vehicles did not have working air conditioning.

Cumming is now asking for “all records of heat-related illness training” that the DPW has provided to its employees over the past three years.

In the institution, employees must ask for toilet paper before going to the toilet

The toilet paper is stored in a separate storage area and not in the cubicles, the report said.

Cumming also saw a number of devices that could improve the working conditions of DPW workers who are sitting still and not being used.

“The OIG observed approximately 20 unopened boxes of coolers and dozens of unopened insulated water dispensers,” the report said.

“A supervisor indicated that the insulated water dispensers did not fit on the newer garbage trucks and that some employees did not want them.”

Some of the equipment was even stored in the building’s showers.

The temperature at the Bowley Lane facility was 85 degrees Fahrenheit

Some problems were reported at the Cherry Hill facility, the same facility Cumming mentioned earlier this month.

“They were aware,” she said of Department of Public Works supervisors. “These conditions are not going to change. We need to make this better.”

The Public Works Department had previously notified CBS Baltimore that improvements would be made, but Cumming said the changes needed to be implemented immediately.

“It’s not enough to tell me that in three years something is going to be done, because in three years we may not have the money for all those things,” she said.

“We need to address these basic human needs now.”

Cumming also said workers were left in the heat without cold drinking water

She added that she took the city’s chief administrator, Faith Leach, to two of the facilities on Tuesday morning to show her some of the deplorable conditions, but that there had been some minor improvements.

Still, Cumming said the DPW isn’t done with her yet.

“Oh, I’ll definitely go, but I won’t tell you or anyone else when I come,” she said. told WMAR.

DailyMail.com has contacted the Ministry of Public Works for comment.