WASHROOM
HIGH-SPEED HYGIENE
Washrooms in busy shopping centres, service stations and airports need to cope with high numbers of visitors whilst keeping down costs. SCA’s Charlotte Boniface looks at the types of systems that can deliver high- speed hygiene.
Washrooms in away-from-home environments need to fulfil a range of different functions. In upmarket hotels and restaurants, for example, their role will be to provide a quiet haven where people can take time out for a wash and brush-up and where women can reapply make-up if they choose.
In a healthcare washroom, hygiene will be paramount in order to prevent the spread of disease via cross- contamination. However, the hygiene provision here will need to be offset against costs since there are budget constraints in any public sector- funded setting such as the NHS.
The busy washrooms of service stations, shopping centres, airports and entertainment centres fall between these two examples. Like the toilets of smart hotels and restaurants they will need to deliver high standards of service so that visitors are left with an impression of professionalism and efficiency.
But far from creating a relaxing haven, high-traffic washrooms also need to make it easy for visitors to use the facilities swiftly and then leave quickly before queues and logjams can form.
The integral design of these washrooms can help to facilitate a quick throughput. A cramped washroom with narrow aisles will cause congestion, for example, particularly if too few cubicles have been provided. On the other hand a long corridor with cubicles on both sides - with plenty of space between for people to pass - will facilitate
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an easy flow of traffic. And where partitions have been used in place of doors at the outer entrance, several visitors will be able to enter and leave the washroom at the same time.
Washroom users will avoid those cubicles where the toilet paper supply has run out, and this will lead to queues forming outside other cubicles. Similarly where soap and hand towel supplies have run out at basins, visitors will gravitate towards those sinks where supplies are still available. Again this will result in queues and logjams.
Cost is always an issue in the facilities management sector. So how does the smart FM manager provide sufficient supplies of soap, hand towels and toilet tissue to cater for a large throughput of washroom users while also keeping an eye on economics and efficiency?
The answer is to provide easy-to- use systems that ensure a long- lasting supply but that naturally limit consumption. This will prevent run- outs and queues in the washroom.
A toilet paper system such as the Tork SmartOne®
works well since it
limits the amount of paper that each user takes out. Designed for high- traffic washrooms, Tork SmartOne provides 1,150 sheets per roll and reduces paper consumption by up to 40%. The fact that each washroom visitor uses less paper means that lower amounts enter the system with each flush. Less paper leads to fewer blockages and a reduced risk of “out- of-action” cubicles.
A jumbo roll of toilet tissue is a
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