If there was a way to get a 600% return on your investment, would you be interested in learning how? Then read below!

A University of Missouri-St. Louis study, "Provision of Sanitation Facilities at Construction Sites," calculated the return on investment in portable toilet facilities at four different types of sites: home, high rise, highway, utility.  The average net cost savings as a percentage of costs was 600%!  Wow!  How did they accomplish this?  By locating a portable restroom with 100 feet of each group of 7 workers.

The restroom is one of the resources your workers need to finish the project.  By providing enough toilets at the right location, you will reap many rewards.  The closer the facilities are, the less down time your workers will experience when they have to use them.  Also, the more toilets you have available, the less each toilet will get used and therefore will stay cleaner. Additionally, you don't want a situation where your employees are choosing less sanitary alternatives because the toilet is inconvenient.

So, examine your workplace and answer the following question.

QUESTION: Are all of your workers within 100 feet of a restroom?

• NO? 
  • Reposition your current toilets closer to your workers.
  • Consider additional toilets as necessary to ensure a facility is available within 100 feet of each employee.
  • Determine the path that your employees are likely to take to get to the toilet and examine any safety issues.
• YES?
  • Your main concern is how many toilets to provide.  The ANSI guidelines are 1 toilet for every 10 workers.  The study mentioned above indicates that 1 toilet for every 7 workers is optimal for cost savings.  You make the call, but we recommend that you stay somewhere between 1 toilet for every 7-10 workers to maximize your investment.