Porta Potty Rental in Wenatchee, WA 98801

Washington's construction table beats the federal one from eleven workers upward, so use the state numbers. The state rule is written to cover both portable chemical toilets and flush toilets. The table runs one toilet for one to ten employees, two for eleven to twenty-five, three for twenty-six to forty, four for forty-one to sixty, five for sixty-one to eighty, then one more toilet for each additional twenty employees or any fraction of that. Compare the federal table, which allows a single facility all the way to twenty workers, and the gap at a crew of a dozen is immediate.

Where you already have plumbed toilets, the state lets you subtract. If an employer provides both flush and portable chemical toilets, the number of employees the flush toilets can serve is calculated and then subtracted from the total, and portable units are required only for the employees who remain. On a Wenatchee packing facility or a building with working restrooms in part of it, that calculation is worth doing before you order.

Several state duties come with the count. Units need internal latches to prevent inadvertent entry. Where there are twenty or more employees of both sexes, separate facilities for each sex are required. Chemicals, toilet tissue and seat covers have to be kept in a supply sufficient for the entire shift, and any defective or inadequate unit must be removed from service immediately.

On a multiemployer site the duty sits at the top. Washington puts responsibility for meeting the sanitation requirements on the prime contractor, while each employer remains responsible for seeing that facilities are provided for its own workers.

A written inspection duty comes with it, and we can help. At the start of each shift the facilities must be checked. Anything failing must be put right at once, and the action written up and kept on site for at least seventy-two hours. The check covers water supply, cleanliness, wash water temperature, towels, cleansers and the state of each unit. We can set the service schedule so the site passes.

For events, Washington has a state schedule few people know about. It covers an outdoor music festival with predicted attendance of two thousand or more lasting five hours or longer. It calls for three toilets for each sex for the first five hundred patrons, then one more per sex for each extra five hundred or major fraction, based on projected maximum daily attendance. So two thousand patrons means six per sex, or twelve units. Separate facilities per sex are required, and chemical toilets may be used as the local health officer approves. Units go within three hundred feet of all day-use and camping areas, next to food concessions, medical and administrative areas, with toilet paper provided. Places of worship, stadiums and arenas within seating capacity are excluded, as are government-sponsored fairs on established fairgrounds. That last point matters here, where a fairground event and a field concert differ.

One state requirement portable toilets cannot meet, and we will say so plainly. Washington requires a lactation space on construction sites that is not a bathroom or a portable toilet. No porta potty, accessible unit or restroom trailer satisfies that rule. If your site needs to comply, it needs a separate provision, and we would rather tell you that than imply a portable toilet covers it.