Following an occurrence in a business I worked with recently I found myself counting up the number of times I had come across dirty protests (people smearing excrement on walls or similar behaviour) and found that there were five such occurrences.  It is an unpleasnat and unhealthy form of behaviour and it made me wonder if I have been unlucky in working in businesses where it has happened or if it is a common occurrence.  Has anyone else out there encountered this?  Obviously I'm not after gory details but it might be more widespread in industry than I had thought.

Come across quite a few in my ten years in a prison as a Health and Safety bod. Never really got involved myself, but always felt a bit sorry for the clean up team even though they were prisoners, they were paid but I think £23 a week and that was just part of their duties.

I don't work there now but have recently come across two incidents both the same person who has menatal health issues.

Just remebered and never thought of it as a dirty protest until DHM. I was at school with a kid who used to write Zorro in his own dirt in the toilets in school.

They caught him by watching the registers of who was in on the days it happened took them months but they got him in the end.

Dealt with this on a number of occasions e.g. The general public and employees; especially around redundances and working change issues

A: Firstly give the problem to management as its a management issue

B: Second do all that U can to provide management with education about the issue from the H&S angle NB: we found that office toilets were hit the most not the front line

There are very few public toilets around these days and this was one of the factors presented to justify closures

best of luck

Unfortunately I have had first hand experience of this.  Through the Scottish Prison Service.  It was mainly kept to the Segregation area and very rarely occurred in mainstream population.  This was in various establishments but here was one in particular that almost half of those in Segregation were on the dirty protest. 

My experience was probably over a year working in wall to wall dripping human excrement.  I kid you not, it was everywhere.

In this setting it was extra ordinally difficult in managing the mess as there was invariably a violence threat we also had to deal with on a daily basis.

There was risk assessment, injections, showers, cells being cleaned daily it was exceptionally demanding. 

 Reading this I realise that we had a  milder version of this as a problem when I was at school in the early '80s. all girl school. It was handled discretely, so much so that I have only just realised what the regular statements in assemply were all about.

When I worked on a refinery in North East Lincolnshire there were numerous times this happened. Mainly by discruntled employees and others who thought they had a point to prove. The culprits were never found but the stance taken by the refinery was instant dismissal and it stopped. 

Pretty disgusting people to do it but, they are amongst us and need identifying as if they are capable of doing that, what else are they capable of?