The disposal of human waste is one of the most vital operations for the control of infection and well being of your patient/resident. The disposal of human waste is also one of the most disagreeable operations that has to be performed. Couple this with regulatory demands and we have a topic that doesn't make many a party conversation.

The room in which this is performed, the sluice room, is often the room left over after the rooms have been allocated to more agreeable tasks. Its size and shape can vary from the ideal to the rabbit hutch. Before even thinking equipment the room must be evaluated for lighting, ventilation, cracks and crevices. Even the surface finishes should be considered as the harbingers of doom.

Next comes equipment selection that best fulfils your current requirements and regulations with eyes wide open as to future changes in both these areas. This equipment must be grouped into clean and dirty areas with due consideration to efficient and effective work flow. Equipment grouping and positioning is also affected by the power, water and waste supplies.

Get everything right and perhaps heaven is too strong a word but you will have a facility that makes human waste disposal as agreeable as possible. A facility that minimises the cost of meeting future demands and regulations. And, above all a facility that keeps bugs at bay and the law suits away.

Get even part of it wrong.  .  .  .  .  .