Outback WA was no match for Instant Toilets & Showers Print
Sunday, 23 August 2009 00:00

What is the Australasian Safari Rally?

The Australian Safari, with its long history of competition throughout Australia and more recently Western Australia, is modernising to reflect our aims and targets to place this event at the forefront of motorsport competition within the region.

As part of the Australian Safari adventure competitors will traverse outback roads and tracks via a route that takes in a great variety of geographical challenges. The inclusion of varying vehicles types, participating in either a competitive or touring element, allows for a spectacle quite like no other in Western Australia’s amazing Outback.

(visit www.australiansafari.com.au for more information)

Five Star Super Twelve Shower unit on the Australasian Safari RallyInstant Toilets & Showers provided toilet and shower facilities for approximately 500 competitors and support crew over the 10 day event, with the event moving daily.   Remote area events are difficult events to cater for for a number of reasons.  Issues that had to be considered were,

  • That the event moves daily with all equipment having to travel atleast 100-360km every day
  • The lack of services in regional areas needed to run the facilities (ie: water, power, sewer points)

  • Waste removal services in each country town for all black and grey water disposal

  • Water availability
    (pressure and run distance to connection points)

  • Power availability
  • Sewer points (for grey water disposal)

With any event where the guests are camping the facilities must be well maintained and operational non-stop as the facilities we provide are typically the only toilets and showers available at a given location.  Careful planning is required to ensure that they remain operational throughout the day/night and to also ensure that a high standard of cleanliness is maintained.

Logistically these type of events require alot more planning than a typical concert or function as the events are in locations where additional equipment is not readily available.  No hardware stores or suppliers are readily accessible so all possible scenarios must be thought out carefully and enough equipment must be taken to work through all possible problems that may occur.  Including the bare essentials of making sure we have enough toilet paper for the event!

Instant Toilets & Showers designed a solution for the Australasian Safari Rally which consisted of a combination of products from our extensive range of portable sanitation equipment. Our solution consisted of,

  • 1x Five Star Streamline toilet blocks (16 toilet cubicles in total)

  • 1x Five Star Super twelve shower units (12 shower cubicles - male/female)

Our transport fleet for the event consisted of,

  • One flat top semi-trucks 

  • One tilt-semi

  • Three support vehicles

Having run several similar events now, Instant Toilets & Showers have a well documented system in place to ensure that we have the right equipment, resources and team on hand to deliver clean, hygenic and functioning products on-time at any location in Australia.

Overall the event itself and our part in the event was a huge success.  Congratulations to the team at Octagon on a well run event.  Instant Toilets & Showers unique products and dedicated team of professionals ensured that our part in this event ran smoothly and that we delivered clean, well maintained toilets and showers every day during the event.  

View our Photos from the Event