Portable Sanitation Association International

6 COVID-19 GUIDELINES FOR PORTABLE SANITATION © Copyright 2020 by the PSAI. All rights reserved. CDC REQUIREMENTS/PSAI STANDARD GUIDANCE FOR EVENT PLANNERS Require frequent employee and attendee handwashing (e.g., before, during, and after taking tickets; after touching garbage) with soap and water for at least 20 seconds and increase monitoring to ensure adherence. • Make sure you have enough hand wash facilities on your event site at all times. You will need them while your team is setting up the event, during the event, and afterward while the event is being torn down. • At a minimum, the PSAI suggests you assume each employee will need at least 6 washes per day and possibly more. This includes once on arrival, 1-2 times after using the toilet, once before a meal, and once at the end of the shift, and 1-2 times throughout the shift after engaging in activities that increase exposure. • Assume attendees will need hand washing at least 3 times in a 2-3-hour visit: once on arrival, once when eating or toileting, and once when they exit. • Discuss the capacity of each hand wash station with your portable sanitation provider. While all equipment varies, and some users may run more water than others, a good rule of thumb for a hand wash station is about 300 washes. Supplement hand wash stations with hand sanitizer when sinks with running water are not available. Ensure the sanitizer being used contains at least 60% alcohol. • Hand sanitizer is a good substitute for killing the COVID-19 virus. Note, though, that it does not actually clean the hands. Consequently, sinks with running water are a better choice if they are available. Make sure you have an adequate number of toilets and hand wash units, properly supplied with soap, water, hand sanitizer containing at least 60 percent alcohol, paper towels, tissues, disinfectant wipes, and no-touch trash cans, placed throughout the venue to encourage frequent use and discourage congregating in lines where COVID-19 is more likely to be spread. Distances of at least 6 feet between people should be possible when lines form. • Hand wash stations should be placed, at a minimum, at the points of entry and departure to your event, as well as near restrooms and food venues. • Ensure that you have adequate no-touch trash receptacles near all hand wash stations and toilets. • When considering the number toilets to get, think about capacity (roughly 200 uses per toilet), placement, and lines. You will need enough units, spaced far enough apart, to keep lines and close congregating to a minimum. Ensure that restrooms and other high touch surfaces such as hand wash stations, countertops and diaper changing tables are cleaned and disinfected regularly with EPA- approved disinfectants against COVID-19. • Make a plan for frequent cleaning of toilets and hand wash stations. The interior surfaces and door handles of restrooms should be cleaned multiple times a day, preferably between users. Hand wash stations should also be wiped down multiple times a day with EPA-approved disinfectants. • If your event will last multiple days, consider having the toilets pumped at the end of each day. Even if they are not heavily used, attendees experience a pumped toilet as cleaner than one that had been used the day before, and during the pandemic their expectations for "extreme sanitation and cleaning" are high. Of course if the units have been used 200 times or more they need to be pumped regardless. • Your portable sanitation provider will be glad to discuss cleaning and pumping options with you. These may include providing an attendant on site to do the cleaning or providing you with cleaners and procedures to do it yourself.

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