How cubicle design can reduce bullying in Australian schools
The Issue
Almost 25% of school students in Australia experience bullying at some stage during their time in school. This equates to almost 1M school students.
Unfortunately, toilets have long been a hotspot for bullying and anti-social behaviour in schools and education facilities, due to limited supervision compared with other areas.
Washroom Design Solutions
In order to look for solutions, it is first important to understand why bullying is prevalent in school toilets. These areas are often an extremely private part of the school building and are unsupervised by teachers and staff.
A lot of anti-social behaviour occurs when pupils are allowed to congregate in private toilet areas and therefore one of the biggest advancements in washroom design has been to introduce more open-plan spaces.
The aim is to reduce space around cubicle areas and one of the biggest advancements is to move handwashing facilities out into open spaces such as the corridor. This enables passive supervision, ultimately making students feel safer using the toilet facilities.
Advancements towards greater supervision of the washroom areas must also factor in student privacy. To support this, there has been a growing demand within secondary schools for full height toilet partition systems to protect student’s privacy. Urinals are now rarely factored into school washroom refurbishments as there is more of a focus on privacy.
To address the above factors, Duracube® has developed 3 new full height partitioning systems. Full Height Privacy Core and Full Height Privacy Ultra provide a vastly improved solution to these issues, while Full Height Privacy Max provides the complete solution to the fight against bullying.
Full Height Cubicle Design features to reduce bullying
- Designed to maximise privacy with little or no gaps around panels
- These 3 systems comply with the Australian Standards for a Unisex bathroom.
- Duracube Privacy edge eliminating gaps between doors and nibs
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