A Message from the President

Diaper changing stations, barrier-free access, child-height WC & washbasin, child-height urinal in the Ladies’ toilet etc. are all key initiatives undertaken by shopping centres for their toilets. Why?  The public’s expectations of public toilets have gone beyond of a toilet being just clean, dry and odor-free.  

Shopping centres, and for that matter, all other buildings and public places that allow access to the general public, realized the importance of having good public toilets.  And how to achieve a ‘good’ public toilet?  RAS has been helping many toilet owners achieve excellent benchmarks in design, cleanliness and provisions for public toilets through the Happy Toilet Programme.  At the end of the day, if a toilet user leaves a public toilet ‘happy’ i.e. satisfied with the facilities, than it’s a ‘happy’ toilet.  Please visit our website for more information on the Happy Toilet Programme.

Setting standards is just part of RAS’ work, as we reveal our 2010 goals in the next article.  To achieve that, we have many other activities, like participating in the Project Million Lotus (PML) – the message is that good toilet etiquette are acts of compassion, as we think of the next user, when we are using the toilet; the first HDB shopping centre in the heartlands achieving a Happy Toilet 5-stars for its toilets; our school programme successfully launched in pre-schools; being invited by Design Council Singapore to be part of the 10 Touchpoints Design Competition; and conducting public talks on good toilet etiquette.

Upcoming events include the launch of the Best Cleaner award – toilet owners and cleaning contractors, nominate your best cleaner!; recruitment of more volunteers (we need your help, as the number of activities increased in our outreach efforts) and also read the experiences of some of our volunteers; finally, continue to demand clean public toilets, and do tell us your views by emailing it to MySay@toilet.org.sg or SMS to 9770-LOOS.

Happy Toilet (experience), healthy people!