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I need some ideas for preventing back flow risk near a sluice sink in a school.

Its special needs school and they currently have a mains fed shower next to a sluice sink, they use it to wash down children on special trolleys if they have had an accident. At the moment the shower hose can drop into the pan of the sluice sink, I was onsite a few days ago and saw it in there! As its also used to hose off the trolleys it can also get fecal matter on the head when doing that as well. Other than feeding the shower, or alternative bit of equipment, from a pumped separate tank with water heater, can anyone think of an alternative solution? There isn't a ceiling void in the room so positioning a water tanks isn't possible.

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Fix the head so it can’t be lowered into cat 5 risk

 
Thanks for the suggestion Shaun, the hose needs to reach the trolley though to clean it off so it would probably restrict that. Ill suggest it though and maybe test the idea out 👍🏼
 
If you mount it to the left wall they should have enough but not enough to reach the drain

Or hard pipe it around furthest away so the hose can’t reach the drain
 

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