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RAS launches
Public Toilet Cleanliness Campaign with partners
The RAS and the National
Environment Agency held a launch ceremony of the Public Toilet
Cleanliness Campaign at the Lifelong Learning Institute to commemorate World Toilet Day. The Public Toilet Cleanliness campaign aims to encourage users
to adopt good toilet habits in consideration of other users. The campaign targets four
specific behaviours, namely,  flushing the toilet after use, keeping toilet
seats clean, keeping floors dry and binning litter. Practising such good
toilet habits will result in a better user experience for all.
Guest of Honour Dr Amy
Khor graced the launch together with representatives from the transport
hubs, coffeeshops and hawker centres namely Koufu
Group, NTUC Foodfare, Singapore Foochow Coffee
Restaurant & Bar Merchants Association, Go Ahead, SBS Transit, SMRT
and Tower Transit. After the launch, a series of roadshows will be held at
participating transport hubs, coffeeshops and hawker centres. As part of
the campaign efforts, premises owners will be provided with a clean
toilet checklist and guidelines to monitor the state of cleanliness in
their toilets. Posters and signages will also be placed at transport
hubs, hawker centres, coffeeshops, community centres and shopping malls
to nudge users to observe good toilet habits in the coming months.
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RAS launches 4th edition of Guide
to Better Public Toilet Design and Maintenance
Soon after the launch of the Public
Toilet Cleanliness Campaign, Guest of Honour Dr Amy Khor launched the 4th
edition of A Guide to Better Public Toilet
Design and Maintenance. The guide was launched to commemorate
the 20th anniversary of RAS. This guide provides qualified persons such
as engineers, architects, and environmental & facility management
professionals with information about good design, maintenance and user
education. The latest edition incorporates smart toilet technology
guidelines to encourage toilet owners and operators to adopt technology
for effective cleaning and to improve the maintenance  of
the toilets. Prior to launching the Guide, Dr Amy Khor also visited the exhibition
on holistic smart toilet technology.
The latest edition was reviewed by RAS together
with partners from the public, private and people sectors. Government
agencies namely the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), National Environment Agency and PUB, together with the
Environmental Management Association of Singapore and World Toilet
Organization, actively contributed to the Guide. Private companies namely
3M Singapore, Adsec Systems, Aqua Tech, Convergent Smart Technologies, Infinergy Systems Solutions and VISO also contributed
to a new section about the adoption of smart technology in toilets. The
first edition of the guide was published in 1999 by the then Ministry of
the Environment. The second edition was published in 2002 while the third
edition was published and launched in 2013 by then Second Minister for
the Environment and Water Resources Ms Grace Fu.
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RAS holds Better Public Toilet Design & Maintenance Seminar
In
its bid to extend outreach about the latest Guide, RAS organised a
seminar at the Lifelong
Learning Institute on the day of the Guide launch. RAS presented about
better toilet design, maintenance and education. New additions from the
latest 4th edition and handy information from the previous editions were
shared with about 150 participants.
The Design segment covered new additions on signage to indicate distance
or time to nearest toilets, smart lighting sensors, durability of
materials, better-designed urinals to facilitate aiming, installation of
standalone wash basins and diaper changing stations in both male and
female toilets. The Maintenance segment touched on new additions on National
Environment Agency’s (NEA)
advisory to toilet owners and productivity calculator for washroom
cleaning. The final User Education segment offered first-hand information
 about
successful implementation of user education, direct and indirect messages
and new means of message placement namely display panels, interactive
feedback systems and audio messages.
The
Smart Technology segment, which comprised of the holistic “Detect Feedback
Eliminate Clean (DFEC)” smart technology, was presented by RAS
partners namely Detect – Convergent Smart Technologies
on smart sensors; Feedback – Infinergy Systems Solutions on
feedback systems; Eliminate – Adsec Systems
on ozonated water and 3M Singapore
on coatings for sanitary fixtures; Clean – Dyson Professional
on fast drying hand dryers and Adkel Solutions on bidet
washers. The final presentation of the seminar was the sharing of details
about the Public Toilet Cleanliness Campaign by the NEA. RAS partners
also set up exhibition booths about their products and services so as to facilitate
any enquiries from interested participants.
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RAS gives out 55 awards at the tenth LOO (Let’s Observe
Ourselves) Awards
On 19th November in commemoration of World Toilet Day, the LOO Awards was held at Lifelong Learning Institute to recognise 55 exemplary
organisations
and individuals.
Among the recipients, a record 20 restroom attendants were also recognised
for the first time to mark the 20th anniversary of RAS. Madam Sum Lan
Heong from Springmount Services was strongly commended by Guest of Honour
Dr Amy Khor, for her commitment in maintaining 6-Star Happy Toilets at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands
and upgrading her skills through the Singapore Workforce Skills
Qualifications (WSQ) despite having an extensive cleaning experience of 22
years. Under the Best Happy Toilet category this year, a new Public
Transport sub-category was introduced with Bukit Panjang Integrated
Transport Hub clinching the award for the first time. The Best Happy
Toilet of the Year was awarded to 6-Star Happy Toilet at The Shoppes at
Marina Bay Sands, Zone 4 Level 1.
 Four
young individuals were also singled out by Dr Khor in her speech, for
their active advocacy of clean toilets in their schools. Twin sisters
Paige and Gaile Ng, who are both student leaders from Chongfu Primary
School, led and motivated their team in restroom decorations and poster
designs. They also conducted recess activities for their fellow students
to recognise the efforts of restroom cleaning attendants. Playing an
active role as a Green Captain of the CHIJ Kellock, Lim Jia Ying upheld
her responsibilities to ensure her classmates carried out cleaning
routines and spring cleaning. She also took great initiative in
appreciating the attendants with thank-you cards and hampers. As an
active Art Club member of the Park View Primary School, Kaylea Toh has contributed
her talent and creativity in toilet decorations for the past two years.
She conducted a morning assembly talk about adopting good restroom
etiquette and showing kindness to cleaning attendants.
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