The National Celebration of World Toilet Day 2010 & National Environmental Health Seminar 2010.

Today (22.11.2010), Environmental Health Section of the Feudal Ministry of Local Government, Kuala Lumpur organize the National level of the Celebration of the World Toilet Day at Hotel Legend, KL with the Prize giving of the Clean Toilet 1Malaysia Awards at the Main hall of Hotel Legend, KL.The Function was graced by the Feudal Minister of Housing & Local Government, KL,YB Dato' Wira Chor Chee Heung. The awards were categorized into the following section:-

1. Public Toilets under Local Authorities
2. Public Toilets under Shopping Complexes.
3. Public Toilets under Restaurants.
4. Public Toilets under Primary Schools.
5. Public Toilets under Secondary Schools.

It was also announced by the Minister that another 2 categories of  Public Toilets awards was dropped due to unforeseen circumstances. Sibu Municipal Council's entry of the Conceptual Public Toilet at Sibu  Town Square Phase II was in the shortlisted of among the top 6 in the Local Authority Categories.Looking from the photos taken for the top 3 categories of the public toilets and we had indeed overlooked a few points.Better Luck next time!.The Ceremony of this awards was a very grand one and a lots of goodies or souvenirs to take back. A very good experience for STC.

Was equally surprised that there were exhibition of products & Services and Government Department and  a Seminar on the Environment Health was organized long side with this Launching of the Awards cos' I only had the invitation for this launching and heard that there was another official notification of this Seminar that came later. Anyway, since we are here, what's about joining the Seminar.The Seminar consisting of 5 sessions for 2 days  with about 14 papers were presented from experts ranging from toilets to environmental issues.The hall were full of participants from government departments and private sectors.

1. Photo: National Environmental Health Seminar in session.















2.Photo: Side Decor of the Hall.

3. Photo : Dr Pani with YB Dato' Wira Chor Chee Heung (Fedual Minister of Housing & Local
                 Government,KL)















4.Photo: Dr. Pani showing the minister the cleaning of floor with "Green Machine"ProVap 7
   Vac Steam Cleaner.

 5. The Green Machine- ProVap 7Vac Steam Cleaner provide efficient cleaning and sanitising with the
     added benefit of a chemical injection facility.

 










6. Photo: One of the company exhibitors- friends.

 7. With En. Syed and a beautiful lady from Econax at their booth.

8. The Seminar in session on the 2nd Day (on 23.11.2010)

9.The Registration Crew from KPKT, KL and preparing the Certificate of attendance for the participants.

Yes, nearly forget, the exhibitions of Sanitary Services &  products  were at the shopping lobby of the Mall, KL i.e. on the ground floor and a total of 20 booth in the exhibition.

"Clean Toilet Seminar" in conjuction with World Toilet Day 19th November 2010

The 19th November is the World Toilet Day and this year (on this Day),Sibu Municipal Council/Sibu Toilet Council celebrated this day in a small scale,organizing "Clean Toilet Seminar " and as well as the  launching of Posters on the "Vandalism in Public Toilets"  &  "Care for the Next Users". There is a session of on-the-spot Cleaning of Toilet practical . Nearly missed this, there was also a small scale of exhibition of toiletries products by the Kimberly Clark agent. This round, most of the participants were from the Government Departments in this central region of the States, non governmental organizations, public toilets' operators from government & private sectors,  and some coffee shop operators. we are expecting the group from education department but unfortunately, it was the last day of the school term , guess, most probably,they were busy. The Guest of Honor is our Mayor, YB Chairman, Datuk Tiong Thai King.

The "Clean Toilet Seminar" consists of the introduction of Sibu Toilet Council, some Toilet facts, most important of all, the Cleaning process, care of Toilets and the practical session on the on the spot cleaning which included use of cleaning solutions in one of our public toilet at Sibu Town Square.

On the posters, we don't have our own posters until this launching and now, we had 9 posters on the public toilets and its educational messages.This is our first try!

The practical session of on-the-spot cleaning was conducted by one of the Sibu Cleaning Contract Specialist and he had been in Sibu for quite numbers of years doing the cleaning contracts with private as well as the government sectors. Use of cleaning solutions and personal cares were his topic for that day.

The feedback from the participants were that they were very eager to get hold of our soft copy of our talks and they said that they are going to do themselves. Well, our talks' modial was not created for this seminar but it's our observations & experiences gathered from various places and our own practices. It's for sharing.

 
Thanks also goes to the Feudal  Ministry of Local Government and Housing, KL  for the provision of funds and support from our state Ministry of  Environment and Public Health,Kuching for organizing this Seminar.

1. The hall at RH Hotel, Sibu.

                                                                            

 

 

 

 

2. The Seminar in progress.

                                                                      

3 .MC giving introduction of the Seminar with the Guest of Honor at the Stage.

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4. The Guest of Honor, YB Datuk Tiong Thai King giving his Speech.

5. Seminar in session. 

                                                                                                                                                                        

     

 6.Exhibition Booth of Kimberly Clark Agent.

                                                                                     

               

7. Practical Training and Demo Session.

8. The Backdrop.

The 10th World Toilet Summit in the United States.

I was informed by my Toilet Council Chairman, Cr. Robert Lau Hui Yew that this Year's World Toilet Summit is in USA and where in the US? Well, it in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from October 31st to November 3rd, 2010. It's an auspicious period.....10th Summit in October (10)  in the Year 2010 (another 10). It's a 10-10-10.  It's quite costly to travel to the US and can  forget about going to the US. But, we are going to celebrate the World Toilet Day 19th November 2010 with Toilet Maintenance Course, exhibitions of toiletries & sanitary wares in Sibu.

For those who like to know more about the World Toilet Summit, they can log in to the WTS website at...http://worldtoilet.org/ or at FaceBook ...http://www.facebook.com/pages/World-Toilet-Summit/

4th Annual General Meeting 2010-Quality Restroom Association Malaysia (QRAM)

The 4th Annual General Meeting was called on 11th June 2010 at Bangsar Seafood Garden Restaurant, One Bangsar, No. 63,Jalan Ara, Bangsar Baru,59100 Kuala Lumpur.Besides the usual presentation of reports, account, and the main agenda of this meeting is the election of 25 nos of National Council Members for the term of Office 2010-2012.

After a lengthy deliberation, YB Datuk James Dawos, Deputy Minister of Tourism Malaysia was elected as the National Chairman. Congratulations to him!.The meeting ended with the dinner at this venue.

 

(Photo: Meeting in Session Chaired by Sir John Loh Soong Chew)

(Photo: members from the Corporates)

(Photo: YB Dato' Dr James Dawos Mamit, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Malaysia)

(Photo: Meeting in Session)

Interesting Public Toilets from Down Under and Land of the Moari.

Hope that visitors from this part of the globe won't  be  surprised to see the Public Toilets of their own countries/areas posted in this blog. These toilets are like those in Malaysia but the different  is that these public Toilets were installed in Recreation Park areas (in a seclude corner) of Hyde Park, Sydney.

In Brisbane,capital of Australian state of Queensland, the Public Toilets in its China Town was found in one of the shop house lot which we seldom or don't see in my part of Town. A very good idea  of providing toilets' facilities in a crowded or no available space for construction of toilets.

In the land of the Maori, one Public Toilet in its Recreation Park of "One Tree Hill" areas, a Cornwall Park, Auckland, NZ found having built with the similar concept with our very own tunnel Toilet in Sibu Lake Garden Phase II. The  Cornwall Park's toilet structure was just like a small dungeon, with its entrance going into the ground and the best of all, this toilet had the facilities to harvest the rain water but only for the urinals.

1. Hyde Park in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

 

Two (2) automatic Public toilets (like those found in the Street of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) but these two were found in seclude corner of the famous Hyde Park at the eastern side of Sydney Central Business District. Australian Fifty (50) cents per entry and the interior, it's more or less  like those auto toilets in our country (Malaysia).

    

(Photo: The Toilet)

(Photo: Another View)

(Photo: User information)

(Photo: Interior of the toilet- Sanitary Bin)

(Photo: Interior of the Toilet- Wash hand basin)

(Photo: fold able diaper changing Platform)

2. Chinatown in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

    

Toilet facilities  in the Shop house lot and this could be the solution for providing Toilets' facilities in the crowded or no space for construction of Public Toilets.

(Photo: Front View)

(Photo: Entrance to the Toilet)

(Photo: Toilet Cubicles)

(Photo: Washing Basins)

(Photo: OKU /handicap Toilet)

3. Cornwall Park (One Tree Hill ) in Auckland, New Zealand.

A similar concept of Public Toilet with Sibu Lake Garden Phase, Permai and it's a bit better cos' of the rain water harvesting facilities. It could be called a "dungeon" Toilet.

 

(Photo: Front View of the Toilet )

(Photo: Top View/Roof  of the "Dungeon" Toilet with bench )

(Photo: Entrance to Male Section of the Toilet)

(Photo: Enterance to the Female Section of the Toilet)

(Photo: Corridor into the Toilet)

(Photo: Rain water holding tank above the urinals)

(Photo: SS grille plateform for urinals)

National Toilet Expo & Forum (Natef) 2010 in Kuala Lumpur.

The season of the NATEF or National Toilet Expo & Forum 2010 is on and this time is back to the Klang Valley in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur on 20th-21 July 2010 at Berjaya Times Square.It had been said that the annual function (NATEF) will be held outside the Klang Valley for 2 year and be back to HQ on the third year. Let's go and meet the toilets' experts and exhibitors of Sanitary products. Hear what's they are going to say ...all about toilets.

Registrations can be done online and log on to the QRAM website for the registration form at http://www.qram.org.my/natef or email info@qram.org.my

Sarawak Toilet Association (STA) -2nd Annual General Meeting

Today, 10th May 2010 @ 9.00 am , a Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Sarawak Toilet Association or " Persatuan Tandas Sarawak " was called at State Ministry of Environment and Public Health or "Kementerian Alam Sekitar Dan Kesihatan Awam" ( or "KASKA") , Kuching by the State Sarawak Toilet Council chaired by YB Datuk Micheal Manyin , former Minister in charge of KASKA. This AGM was due for two (2) years already and was mandatory as the submission of the Annual Report to Registrar Of Society (ROS) was due. Failure to do so, the association would be deregistered . This meeting was also to discuss the handing over the duties of the Chairman and the Office bearers or main Committee to the incoming committee.

This meeting resolved that the next post of the Chairperson should be the Minister in charge of this Ministry and while the Vice chairperson should be the Assistant Minister of the Ministry and the Secretary of the Association be the Principal Secretary of the Ministry.

All the members of the Association are from the local Authorities and it was suggest that the members should also be recruited from the hotel Industries, Tea & Coffee Shop and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

The meeting ended in about 2 hours and this Association would definitely be around for good.

(Photo: YB Datuk Micheal Manyin chairing the Meeting)


(Photo: Members from all Local Authority)

(Photo: Meeeting in session)

(Photo: Meeting in Session)