What Should Every Business Provide in Its Workplace Washrooms?

A clean, well-equipped washroom is an essential part of any workplace. It not only helps create a positive impression for employees and visitors but also supports hygiene, wellbeing and compliance with workplace regulations. Knowing what to include in your workplace washrooms ensures your facilities remain clean, comfortable and fit for purpose.

At Sterling Washroom Services, we provide complete washroom solutions for businesses across Essex, supplying and maintaining everything needed to keep commercial washrooms hygienic and fully stocked. Our services include sanitary disposal, soap dispensers, hand dryers, air fresheners, paper products and clinical waste collection.

Essential Hand Hygiene Facilities

Hand hygiene is one of the most important aspects of any workplace washroom.

Every washroom should include:

• Quality hand soap dispensers
• Reliable hand drying facilities
• Paper towels or electric hand dryers
• Fully stocked toilet paper dispensers

Providing these essentials encourages good hygiene practices and helps reduce the spread of germs throughout your workplace.

Sanitary and Waste Disposal Solutions

Businesses should also provide appropriate waste disposal facilities to maintain cleanliness and support compliance.

Depending on your premises, this may include:

• Sanitary hygiene bins
• Nappy waste disposal units
• Clinical waste collection
• Toilet and urinal sanitising systems

These services help create a cleaner, safer environment while ensuring waste is managed responsibly.

Air Care and Odour Control

Having a consistently odour-free washroom makes a good impression.
Automatic air fresheners and contemporary air care technologies remove odours and keep your facility smelling fresh for employees and visitors alike. Sterling Washroom Services provides customizable air freshening systems ideal for most commercial facilities.

Keep Consumables Fully Stocked

Running out of essential supplies can quickly affect employee satisfaction and your company’s professional image.

Regular servicing ensures items such as:

• Toilet rolls
• Paper hand towels
• Soap refills
• Cleaning products

are always available when needed, helping your washrooms remain operational throughout the working day.

Partner with a Reliable Washroom Service Provider

Managing workplace washrooms is much easier with a professional washroom service provider. Scheduled servicing, product replenishment and waste collection ensure your facilities remain hygienic without placing additional demands on your team.

Sterling Washroom Services offers flexible agreements with no lengthy contracts, reliable scheduled servicing and a wide range of innovative washroom products to suit businesses of every size.

Get in Touch

Whether you manage an office, school, healthcare facility, warehouse or commercial premises, Sterling Washroom Services can help keep your workplace washrooms clean, hygienic and fully stocked.

From sanitary disposal and clinical waste collection to hand hygiene products, air freshening systems and washroom consumables, we provide complete washroom solutions tailored to your business.

Contact Sterling Washroom Services today for a free, no-obligation quotation and discover how we can help improve your workplace washrooms.

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SANITARY DISPOSAL

Why Do We Need Sanitary Bins

All employers have a legal requirement to provide female employees with a suitable means for disposing of sanitary waste.  This includes the safe management of waste on your premises right up to the point of final disposal.  (The Environmental Protection Act 1990).

As with most things in life, these guidelines are often reviewed, with guidance being tweaked from time to time.  Disposing of sanitary waste via a third-party provider, ensures you receive evidential proof that the sanitary or continence items within your bins are disposed of responsibly and appropriately with duty of care provided.

Sanitary Waste	Incontinence	Personal Hygiene
Sanitary pads	Adult Incontinence pads	Wipes
Menstrual cups	Children’s nappy waste	Cotton wool
Tampons	Leg bags and stoma	Soiled materials

How often do I need this service?

Consider the number of people who may need to dispose of sanitary and incontinence waste and adjust the frequency of disposal so that it suits your business.  For example those with fewer employees might prefer an 8-weekly service, whereas companies experiencing frequent footfall, such as cafes and large offices might prefer a weekly service.

What do I need to check?

Your preferred contractor must have a current waste carrier licence. Prices vary between providers and location has a part to play.  We are aware that a charge of up to £300 per bin per annum has been imposed in some places, whereas in other regions, by different providers, servicing averages out at £95 – £130 per bin per annum (based on 13 services per year of a single bin).  But when you check prices, please consider also whether there are additional costs for administration and certification, the length of a contract and its flexibility.  Perhaps you could find out if the company local – is it independent or is it national?

Why is this so important?

As well as providing dignity in the workplace through the provision of appropriate waste disposal, you are also protecting the environment by encouraging your workers to properly dispose of their waste (as this should be separated other forms of waste and should never be flushed).

Research:

According to (Friedler et al., 1996) tampons accounted for around 23% and pads for 3.8% of all unflushables polluting the sewage system. Sanitary pads, mostly composed of plastic, are also washed up in marine areas and can pose a hazard to marine organisms and human health (Ó Briain et al., 2020).

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SANITARY BINS – WHY DO I PAY AND WHAT DO I PAY FOR

Sanitary Bins:

Why do I pay and what do I pay for?

Firstly, let’s address the elephant in the room – nobody wants their staff to touch other people’s sanitary waste. But somebody must do it and that’s why we’re here.

There’s more to it than that.  Current legislation states that you should adequately provide means by which your staff and customers maintain dignity when disposing of sanitary and personal care waste.  These acts are:

Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992

The Water Industries Act 1991

The Environmental Protection Act 1990

Failure to provide adequate sanitary bins in your workplace bathrooms could breach these regulations; however, just as importantly, having sanitary bins in washrooms helps keep staff and visitors comfortable.

Your duty of care expands to ensuring the bins are emptied regularly, and no sanitary/non flushable items should be flushed away.  It then goes further to ask that you ensure you properly manage the waste to protect the environment.

Let’s face it, nobody wants to deal with blocked toilets or pay hefty bills and fines because of inadequate disposal, so if you provide adequate sanitary and/or incontinence waste disposal you are helping everyone.

Why contact us?

We will provide you with a price for the hire of a suitable sanitary bin, removal of the sanitary waste from your bin, a clean of the bin and insertion of a new liner.  You will receive a report and waste certificate and be reassured that it has been done by a professional washroom service provider.  Our price will include certification, administration and you will only commit to 12-months contract with us.  We have no lengthy tie-ins or penalties (although we do ask that you provide us with 1-month’s notice if you decide to cancel).

We are members of the Independent Washroom Services Association (IWSA).  The IWSA is a group of approximately 35 independent washroom service providers . Our association works in partnership to deliver local and national services across the UK and Ireland.  We all work to agreed standards and co-operate with each other to ensure we can meet our customers’ needs.

So what do you pay for?

• Peace of mind that your company’s washroom needs are met with adequate sanitary and incontinence provisions,
• Certification
• Regular service pattern, with regular technicians
• Fair pricing
• Reassurance that you are meeting the requirements of current legislation
• Services that put the customer first

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