Key bit:
On Wednesday, B.C. Building Trades launched its Get Flushed campaign, which aims to change provincial rules to force construction companies to provide either toilets and hand-washing facilities connected to sewer systems, or portable units with running water, on job sites with 25 or more workers.
Before the “25 or more workers” I had no clue how they could achieve this. But for 25 or more workers, it seems trivial to at a minimum bring in a shipping container kitted out with a water and sewage resevoir.
I’d argue that this should also be the case for any farm workers; no more chemical toilet in the far corner of a 10 acre field.
Hooked up to sewage? Good luck; only the largest sites would have access to a working sewage line and a permit to use it. In most cases, the job would be over before the permit came through, if there was anything to hook up to.
I have been to wedding that have nice washroom trailers for the event. If a small wedding can have a nice washroom trailer I am sure a job site with 25 people can afford it.
I’ve been on site with the ones built out of a portable, like you see on school grounds. They have full flush facilities, they’ve got a separate water reservoir set up underneath or alongside that’s hooked up to a fire hydrant.
Hell, you can get hand wash stations that work on a foot pump using grey water that are pretty space-saving, even, if you don’t want to totally ditch the portajohns.
The only problem is the people who use them and leave them filthy as fuck.
I have been to weddings that served some of the finest food imaginable. Construction workers should be pushing for the seven course meal every lunch while they are at it. If a small wedding can afford it, I’m sure a job site can.
How does that work?
What if the site is in the middle of farmland? Have to have some sort of septic truck that it pumps directly into?
They make trailers that are complete washrooms. Multiple sinks and toilets in stalls/single toilet and sink with running water. Also, they’re heated. Septic truck comes every so often to completely service them.
It’s child’s play.
We live where there is no municipal water or sewage. We have two holding tanks, one for water, one for waste. We haul the fresh water ourselves, but there are contractors we could hire. We call a pumper truck to empty the waste water tank occasionally and they haul it to a municipal dump site where it gets treated along with the rest of the municipal sewage.
There are RVs all over the place with appropriate toilet and water systems.
In the early 1980s, I worked at remote work camps with wash shacks that had hot and cold running water with flush toilets.
It’s a solved problem.
There are already trailers that are self contained washroom units. Some sites already use them some just have portable toilets.
A shitter like that will bring more people into the trades for sure, unironically.
