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Animal shelters connect pets with new families every day. While the hope is the animals find a new home quickly, keeping them safe and healthy throughout their stay is critical. Tight quarters and lots of visitors make that goal challenging, but there is a solution: washing hands, paws, and high-touch surfaces frequently.
The snag in this plan, though, is often a lack of handwashing sinks. Animal shelters are often on a tight budget, and while they have the minimum number of required sinks throughout the facility, that may not be enough to encourage frequent handwashing.
Fortunately, portable sinks can fill that gap. They’re a less messy, less expensive alternative to traditional sinks that need plumbing and allow you to put a handwashing sink anywhere and everywhere you need it.
Proper hygiene in animal shelters is critical to maintaining the health and safety of the animals, employees, and visitors. Even healthy animals can quickly become ill when germs spread throughout the facility.
Whether it’s animal-to-human, human-to-animal, or human-to-human transmission, human hands can harbor and spread infectious diseases around the shelter. E.coli, Salmonella, and ringworm are a few examples.
Frequent hand washing among staff and visitors reduces the spread of these and other illnesses that can harm animals and humans.
In addition to stopping the spread of diseases, proper handwashing creates a safer working environment. The ability to wash hands after outside playtime with the dogs, changing the cat litter boxes, or even sneezing can help employees feel that they work someplace that cares about their — and the animal’s — safety.
Finally, animal shelters have a lot of high-touch surfaces that need to be cleaned and sanitized: toys, enclosures, bowls, floors, not to mention paws. Cleaning these surfaces regularly supports a safer working environment and stops the spread of disease.
Knowing you should wash your hands before and after handling the animals is one thing. Being able to wash your hands with clean hot and cold running water and soap is another. While animal shelters have sinks throughout the building, they may not be conveniently located to encourage frequent handwashing, especially among visitors. What’s more, dragging all the toys to and from the sink may mean they’re washed less frequently, or someone is dragging a bucket of water to the enclosure to clean up. That’s where a portable sink can help.
Portable sinks work without plumbing, eliminating the need for costly or messy retrofits. They go wherever you need them. Simply roll the sink wherever you need it, fill the fresh water tank, and plug the unit into a standard outlet and get instant access to hot and cold running water. You can:
Ozark River Manufacturing’s portable sink solutions can help your shelter with hand hygiene and facility sanitation. Our no-plumbing portable sink units come fully assembled. Simply unpack the sink, fill the tanks, and plug it in. You’ll have hot and cold running water without the need for an expensive or costly remodeling job. Contact us today and learn how we can help, or check out our full selection of portable sinks.
Ozark River Manufacturing designs and delivers top-quality, NSF-certified portable sinks. Since 2006, our inventive and bold team has ensured health compliance with quick-connect tanks and instant hot water. With over 55 models, we provide solutions for every need, backed by exceptional customer support and timely delivery. Healthy people matter, and we make a positive impact every day.
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