CAMP LAYOUT AND FIELD HYGIENE
Setting up your campsite properly is integral for both comfort and hygiene. As a general guide, consider the following points:
• Choose a campsite that is naturally well-drained.
• Set your camp upwind, with the kitchen and fire downwind +or at least side-on, to blow away smoke, mosquitoes and other airborne vectors of disease.
• To avoid waterlogging your camp, locate showers, water points and drainage downhill
+or to one side, and ensure the water can drain away.
• External toilets should be further downhill and downwind. Remember to locate them at least 50m from kitchens and potable water sources, 100m from the nearest well, bore hole, river, creek or dam, and at least 600mm deep.
• Store food and garbage in sealed containers. Otherwise,…
