Industrial Washfountains for School Shop Areas

Shop class is typically one of the most popular electives in public schools. While the safety hazards are typically marginal compared to those of many chemical processing and manufacturing plants, students nonetheless have to wash their hands and arms of a variety of contaminants with which they come in contact.  Industrial wash fountains with deep bowl designs are obviously preferable for this task.  However, public schools must put ADA accessibility on equal footing with functionality—much more so than factories—in order to accommodate the increasingly diverse demographics that now constitute what was once an environment that in decades past consisted almost exclusively of able bodied male students with a passion for physical labor.

A very different student body now constitutes the typical school shop area. Not only have gender boundaries come down, but many students who suffer from disabilities are now engaging more than ever in physically challenging activities.  As such, the design requirements of an educational shop facility are somewhat inverted in comparison to their industrial counterparts.  Whereas in factory restroom design, separate accommodations for disabled workers often makes for both a more efficient AND accessible environment, schools must take a more inclusionary approach that reaches out to everyone at once.

Industrial washfountains here must be ADA accessible AND fully capable of meeting the medium to heavy-duty hand washing requirements of metal shop and wood shop. A large bowl design is still required to provide adequate cleaning area for students to wash all the way up past the elbows when they are exposed to contaminants.  However, the bowl cannot be deep, as it is in the classic design, because ADA requirements specifically mandate a shallower bowl that will allow wheelchair bound users to access the interior.   At face value, it would appear that shop areas in schools face an insurmountable challenge.  On one level, they have to provide students with a way to clean up after class.  On another level, however, the typical design featured by most hand washing stations has too deep a bowl for handicapped students to use.

The solution to this dilemma can be found in Bradley’s new Terreon Deep Bowl industrial washfountain. While it bears the label of a deep bowl unit, it actually features a bowl that is shallow enough to meet with ADA stipulations, but that provides enough interior volume to closely equivocate the traditional deeper bowls we are accustomed to seeing in hand washing fountains.  While not recommended for factory environments, The Terreon hand washing station will meet all the typical requirements of shop areas in schools and provide 100 percent compliance with all pertinent accessibility codes.

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