Wholesale cleaning and restroom supplies for offices
An office supply list is set by one number almost nobody looks up: the maximum number of people on site at any one time. OSHA’s sanitation standard defines “number of employees” that way — not by headcount — and every fixture count, and therefore every consumable par level, follows from it. A 90-person company running a three-day hybrid rota is a 55-person office for compliance purposes, and buying to the payroll number is how offices end up over-ordering tissue and under-ordering towel.
Bathroom & Rags Supplier puts paper, liners, soap, chemicals, gloves and floor care on one wholesale account with case pricing, one delivery and one invoice, for single offices and multi-site employers across Florida.
What OSHA requires you to stock
Two consumables are not optional. Under 29 CFR 1910.141(d)(2)(iii) hand soap or a similar cleansing agent must be provided at every lavatory, and under 1910.141(d)(2)(iv) you must provide individual hand towels of cloth or paper, air blowers, or clean individual sections of continuous cloth toweling, convenient to the lavatories. Warm-air dryers satisfy the drying requirement — but they do not satisfy the soap requirement, and a dryer that is out of service leaves you with neither.
Fixture counts come from Table J-1, based on the maximum number of employees of each sex present on a regular shift:
- 1–15 employees: 1 water closet · 16–35: 2 · 36–55: 3
- 56–80: 4 · 81–110: 5 · 111–150: 6
- Over 150: one additional fixture for each additional 40 employees
Two provisions save money and are widely missed. Where a toilet room holds only one person at a time and locks from the inside, separate rooms for each sex are not required — and if that single-occupancy room contains more than one fixture, only one counts toward Table J-1. Where facilities will not be used by women, urinals may stand in for water closets, but the water-closet count cannot fall below two-thirds of the minimum. In the break room, 1910.141(g)(3) requires food-waste receptacles to be emptied at least once each working day and to have solid tight-fitting covers unless they can be kept sanitary without one — which is a liner and a lid specification, not a housekeeping suggestion.
The dispenser height most offices get wrong
“Mount dispensers at 48 inches” is the rule of thumb, and above a counter it is wrong. Under the 2010 ADA Standards §308, the 48-inch maximum applies to an unobstructed reach. Reach over an obstruction and the ceiling drops: for a side reach over an obstruction deeper than 10 inches, the maximum falls to 46 inches (obstruction depth 24 inches max); for a forward reach over an obstruction deeper than 20 inches, it falls to 44 inches (depth 25 inches max). The low reach is 15 inches minimum either way. A towel dispenser set at 48 inches above a 22-inch-deep vanity is a finding waiting to happen — and it is far cheaper to fix at install than after.
Par levels for a 50-person office
Assume 50 people on site, 21 working days a month, and about three restroom visits per person per day — roughly 150 visits a day. Adjust the multiplier to your own occupancy and the arithmetic holds (for the same build expressed as a cost per employee, with the fixed block separated out, see the blog):
- Hand towel: at two towels per visit, 300 a day, about 6,300 a month. A multifold case of 16 packs × 250 sheets holds 4,000, so budget roughly 1.5 to 2 cases a month. Roll towel changes the maths — see multifold vs roll paper towels.
- Hand soap: 150 washes a day is about 3,150 a month. A 1,000 mL cartridge of liquid at roughly 1 mL a shot gives about 1,000 uses; the same cartridge in foam at about 0.4 mL gives around 2,500. That is three cartridges a month versus a little over one — the single biggest controllable line on an office restroom budget. See foam vs liquid hand soap.
- Toilet tissue: about 60 toilet uses a day, roughly 1,260 a month, at about 100 uses per standard 500-sheet roll — call it 13 to 15 rolls a month, or one 96-roll case per quarter for a single-floor office.
- Liners: desk-side liners emptied twice a week plus restroom and break-room liners daily. For 50 desks that is around 400 small liners and 60 to 80 heavy liners a month. Sizing and mil rating are covered in our can liner sizing guide.
Order a month at a time against those numbers rather than reordering when a closet looks empty. Offices that switch to par-level ordering typically cut both emergency retail runs and the dead stock sitting behind them. Our office restroom stocking checklist is the walk-round version of this list, and commercial cleaning supplies covers the wider facility range.
Buying on a wholesale account
Everything above ships by the case or pallet at quote-based wholesale pricing — no public retail prices, no per-item markup. Multi-site employers can deliver to several addresses on one account with consolidated billing and a single purchase order. Tell us your site count and the maximum shift occupancy at each and we will build the standing order around it.
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