Construction Site Portable Toilets in the Wabash Valley

What OSHA actually requires on a job site

OSHA's construction sanitation standard is 29 CFR 1926.51. The part that governs how many toilets you need on site reads, in plain terms: for 20 workers or fewer, one facility. For 20 or more workers, one toilet seat and one urinal per 40 workers. For 200 or more workers, one toilet seat and one urinal per 50 workers.

Two practical notes that catch people. The counts are based on the number of workers on the site, not the number employed by any one contractor, so on a multi-trade job it is the total head count that matters. And the standard requires the facilities to be maintained in a sanitary condition, which is the part a weekly service schedule exists to satisfy.

We do not enforce OSHA and we are not your compliance officer. What we will do is figure the count with you against the standard so the number on the invoice is defensible when somebody asks.

When a site needs units, and for how long

Realistically, from the day the first crew shows up to the day the last one leaves. Most of our construction accounts in Parke, Vigo and Montgomery counties run three months to a year. New residential builds, ag buildings, county road and bridge work, and commercial remodels are the bulk of it.

Short jobs work too. A two-week remodel where the household bathroom is torn out is a normal call for us, and it gets a weekly service just like a big site would.

Service, access and moving units

Standard service is once a week on the same weekday, so your crew knows when to expect the truck. Service means pumped, interior scrubbed, paper restocked and deodorizer recharged. High-traffic sites with big crews get more frequent service, which we will suggest rather than wait for you to ask.

Two things keep a site account running smoothly:

• Access on service day. Gate codes, lockbox combinations or a superintendent's cell number. A missed service because the driver could not get past a padlock is the most common problem on construction accounts and it is entirely preventable.
• Tell us when the site moves. Units should sit near where the trades are working. As a building goes up and the work moves from the pad to the interior, the unit should follow. Reasonable relocations during a monthly rental are included.

Units by crew size

Add a handwash station where the crew is handling materials that make hand washing more than a courtesy. On sites with any food service or concrete work, it is the first thing we would add.

What it costs on a job site

Our standard rate is $125 a unit plus $35 for delivery and pickup, with the $35 charged per trip rather than per unit, so setting four units on one site is one delivery charge and not four. Weekly service is included in the rental rate. There is no separate per-service line, which is the thing that makes a national outfit's invoice impossible to check.

The only variable line you will see is $45 for an out-of-cycle service. If your crew doubles for a pour week and a unit will not make it to its scheduled day, call us and we clean it for $45 rather than telling you it is not on the route until Monday. Most accounts never use it.

Multi-unit and multi-site accounts get quoted as a package, and all of it lands on one monthly invoice. No deposit to open the account.

Why contractors keep the account

Because the truck comes on the day it said it would. Dane Leatherman owns Rockin L and works on the trucks himself, so a mechanical problem gets solved in our shop overnight instead of sitting in a dealer's queue for a week. On a construction account that reliability is the entire product.

The second reason is billing. One invoice a month covering every unit on every one of your sites, not a stack of separate tickets from a national dispatch system. If you are running three jobs at once across Parke and Vigo counties, that matters more than the per-unit rate.