Agriculture is an enormously important industry and one where safety has always played an important role since the dawn of the industrialization. Lack of care around large equipment can cause serious injuries and even death. Insects, fungus, and disease all can destroy crops and make them unsuitable for eating. These dangers are the obvious ones, but what about the invisible threats facing our food supply?                                                    

E. coli, salmonella, and other life-threatening infections can contaminate food easily, even vegetables. This can happen from livestock living near fields, either by wandering into the fields from their enclosures or from water runoff after a heavy rain that washes fecal material from where they're kept to where fruits or vegetables are growing.  If farm workers are not given adequate toilet facilities, the very process of harvesting can expose raw fruits and vegetables to these diseases that usually live in the intestinal tract of animals. As gross as the very idea is for most people, this is exactly the reason we're all taught to wash our hands after going to the bathroom, even if we don't want to think about it. That the news carries regular notices for food recalls for things like E. coli contamination is proof that this is a very current problem that isn't going away easily.

Animals will do what they do, unfortunately, but for the humans out in the fields there is at least a relatively easy solution. Trailer mounted portable toilets can be moved along with farm crews as they work. Modern portable toilets available for rent from the Denison and Dallas area are as sanitary as most homes and can be equipped with hand-washing stations in addition to the hand sanitizer included inside the toilet units themselves. These are very much like the porta potties most are used to seeing around construction sites and large scale events like county fairs or music festivals. The difference is they are secured to a special trailer that makes it easy to step up and into the portable toilets for use. The trailer makes it easy to hitch up and move to keep up with the working crews.

Agricultural regulations require these sorts of facilities be available as part of strict safety guidelines, not just for the workers but for consumers as well. A single accident can cost a farmer thousands of dollars between loss of product from contamination, steep fines, and risking the loss of potential buyers. With so much on the line, not just in regards to economics but even more importantly the health of both workers and consumers, farming communities outside of Dallas and around Denison enormously benefit from the ease of access from these trailer mounted portable toilets.