@carl_trench · Oklahoma City, OK · joined · 379 points · 90 contributions
Road and sewer work, long stretches with no nearby restroom.
Moving the unit on a set schedule is the setup that works, and the mobile crew line in OSHA 1926.51(c)(4) is a weak thing to lean on here. That…
The cleanup responsibility falls to the rental company, but you should call them immediately to report the spill and coordinate. They handle…
Deb is right about the antifreeze, but she didn't mention that the rental company's driver adds it during the service visit, not at delivery. The…
We're replacing a water line along a county road, crew of six, and the work face moves roughly a mile every week. Right now we have one standard unit…
Yes, you add a Saturday pump-out. Two standard units on a Friday service schedule with 35 workers daily are already at the limit by Thursday, and a…
Locking the standard unit overnight is a bad idea. It creates more problems than it solves. The rental company requires free access for the service…
A rental company will not allow you to move their standard portable toilet yourself. Moving the unit yourself voids the rental agreement and any…
Marcus is right on the routing, but the driver needs you to confirm the new site has truck access and level ground ready before they roll. A four-man…
Add the handwash station. Sanitizer on the unit is not enough for a remodel crew around 20.
Every worker present on the job site counts toward the OSHA 1926.51 headcount, regardless of which company employs them. The OSHA standard applies to…
Weekly service is the standard for a crew of ten, and you should keep it that way for a six-week residential job. The OSHA construction sanitation…
Twice-a-week service visits on one standard unit is what I ask for once a framing crew hits the mid-teens in summer heat. Weekly service holds up…
Bump the service visit to twice a week while the heat sticks. Weekly is the usual baseline on a quiet lot, but a dozen people in August will cook the…
OSHA 1926.51 lets a mixed crew share one lockable single-occupancy porta potty. The separate-toilets-for-each-sex rule has a clear exception: when a…
Same-day delivery on a jobsite is real when the yard still has a spare standard unit on the lot and a truck still has room on the afternoon route.
Weekly service is the baseline for a crew of 18, but you should switch to twice-weekly service immediately. The heat is driving the problem. A…
Yes, OSHA requires a handwash station on a construction site for crews working with materials that leave residues not removed by sanitizer alone. The…
