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VACUUM TRUCK SERVICE
Some Facts About Portable Toilets – SPECIAL EVENTS:
Under normal conditions most persons will use sanitation facilities once every four hours. Each portable sanitation unit should accommodate a maximum of 200 persons. Weather conditions and the consumption of food, liquids, beer and other alcoholic beverages will increase usage by 30 to 40 percent. Your local portable sanitation service contractor’s experience will help you in events requiring more than 10 units for more than one day; it is recommended that a service technician be on standby duty at the event. This enables the toilet contractor to adequately handle any sanitation problem that may arise.
This hypothetical example illustrates how good sanitation planning can impact a special event.
Assumptions:
- There are 10,000 attendees at an event,
- The sponsor budgets $6,000 for toilet facilities
- Each attendee spends $3.00/hour at the event.
The average cost for the toilet facilities is $.60/attendee. If the average attendee is satisfied with the cleanliness, availability, and absence of long lines to use the portable sanitation units, he/she will be willing to use the units and thus stay at the event longer. If each attendee lengthens his/her visit by only 12 minutes, the additional gross revenues to the event sponsors will pay for the cost of furnishing portable sanitation units.
Good planning for sanitation at special events pays! A satisfied customer will stay longer, spend more money, and return next year. Your portable sanitation contractor can advise you on availability of hand washing units and special handicapped facilities.
CONSTRUCTION
Portable toilets are the primary sanitation facility for the construction industry. Contractors realize that when employees have to leave the job site or walk too far to use toilet facilities it costs money. The average time needed, including travel, to make one off-site restroom usage is 7 minutes. If you divide a worker’s pay plus benefits/hour, by 60 minutes you’ll discover the cost for each minute of restroom usage. A University of Missouri-St. Louis, Study: “Provision of Sanitation Facilities at Construction Sites,” calculated that at four types of construction sites studied in the St. Louis area contractors earned an 850% return on their investment in portable facilities. Availability of units was important in the study. Every group of seven workers had access to a facility within 100 feet of the group’s central location. Portable units are not only less expensive than permanent facilities but their use improves productivity.
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