Standards Development

Scope

This document applies to mobile non-sewer- connected toilet cabins system.
It specifies the requirements for services related to the provision of toilet cabins and the relevant
requirements for toilet cabins and sanitary products, taking into account comfort, hygiene, health and
safety.

It specifies the minimum quality requirements for toilet cabins and sanitary products, as well as the
extent of on-site service and the required disinfection and the number of toilet cabins to be provided. It
also determines the frequency of use, the maximum number of uses per toilet cabins, the locations and
the intervals for on-site service or disposal of faecal water.

This document applies in the framework of activities carried out in the following sectors:

— construction and extractive industries, opencast or underground;

— public events and recreational activities, festivals and concerts;

— agriculture: Labour camps and temporary work camps;

— beaches;

— emergencies;

— Military tactical and training exercises.

There are other types of mobile toilet cabins which are not connected to a sewage system (e.g. dry
toilets, composting toilets, incinerations toilets, vacuum toilets, or other technologies and processes)
and which are not covered by this standard.

This document establishes a system to ensure that mobile sanitation facilities for waste disposal are
available not only in the workplaces but wherever there are no waste disposal systems connected to a
sewerage network.

This document is directed at manufacturers, services providers' companies and publics or private cabin hirers of toilet cabins not connected to a sewage network. This standard applies to mobile cabins
(excluding dry toilets) that are not connected to a sewerage system.

Purpose

Where we come from:

Since the inception of the industry in the 1960s, portable sanitation without connection to the sewerage
network has come to solve a major problem in those places where there is no possibility to connect
flush toilets / evacuation to a sewerage network.

Since its birth, the portable sanitation industry has developed into the "mobile sewerage" industry,
becoming a strategic and essential sector.

Portable sanitation without connection to the sewerage network solves a serious problem in strategic
sectors, which do not have a sewerage system, such as:

-Temporary or mobile construction sites, whether public or private, where construction or civil
engineering works are carried out.

-Public events and shows, whether publicly or privately organized, profit or non -profit, which bring
people together to watch them, which take place outdoors (private or public) and which require the assembly and dismantling of temporary installations.

-Thousands of music festivals/concerts that usually bring together a large number of music concerts
over several days and usually of the same musical genre, so that festival -goers can spend several
days enjoying live music, in a predominantly open-air venue and with temporary infrastructure.

-Metropolitan festivals/concerts, which are held in one city and take place in two or more venues or a
combination of them, in both cases with temporary infrastructure, and which are consider ed to be asocial event.

-Agricultural plantations, in fruit and vegetable stores at their seasonal times, and in particular during
harvesting in agricultural fields.

- When emergencies during natural disasters

In short, portable sanitation without connection to the sewerage network facilitates the lives of millions of people and professionals, providing them with comfort, hygiene and healthiness in their occupations, leisure activities, or in situations of natural disasters and/or emergencies.

Wherever there is a high concentration of people for long hours, portable sanitation is needed.

Portable toilets save and preserve the water 473.000.000 litres of Water per day are saved around the world due to the fact that people use Portable Toilets. (www.psai.org/waterfacts) On an annual basis, that equals over 170 BILLION litres of water saved.

In addition, Portable Toilets protect our Water sources from the devastating effects of the contamination that can be deadly to people, animals and aquatic vegetation.

When the people use portable toilets, without knowing it, they are participating to the prevention of one
of the most valuable resource of the Earth: the WATER

Why a toilet is a lifesaver

Without safely managed, sustainable sanitation, people often have no choice but to use unreliable,
inadequate toilets or practice open defecation. Even where toilets exist, overflows and leaks from pipes and septic systems, and dumping or improper treatment, can mean untreated human waste gets out into the environment and spreads deadly and chronic diseases such as cholera and intestinal worms.

Almost half of the global population or 3.6 billion people lack safe sanitation and every day, over 700
children under age 5 die from diarrhea linked to unsafe water, sanitation and poor hygiene.