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“The LiftaLoo isn’t just a toilet, it’s the fix the offshore industry has needed for years.”
“It’s non-spillable. When it is lifted, it is sealed and it stays together.”
Andrew Hart, CEO Cargostore Worldwide Testimonials
Ekaterina Burge, Global Business Development Manager at Cargostore Worldwide
Ekaterina Burge & Jon Aldiss standing beside the Liftaloo.
Winners announced for the Global Offshore Wind Awards 2026
RenewableUK announced the winners of the fifth annual Global Offshore Wind Awards at a ceremony at the Royal Lancaster London, 2026.
14 awards were announced - covering people, projects and sector priorities - having been assessed by an expert panel of judges representing a diverse pool of senior industry professionals and Government figures.
People first: The LiftaLoo - The World's First Single-Point Lift Offshore Welfare Unit, by Cargostore Worldwide.
The LiftaLoo is now an 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 offshore certified toilet!
Many congratulations to all the winners, as well as the finalists and applicants. The record number of entries this year reflects both the scale of talent across the offshore wind industry, in addition to the diversity of skill and high calibre of all involved.
Jon Aldiss, Director of Griffin Special Projects, states:
“My journey in marine construction predates the offshore wind industry, challenging work like winching off pitching vessels to fixed structures. This experience led to the founding of Pegasus Welfare in 2016, the invention and delivery of the first certified offshore welfare solution on a windfarm and the first internal turbine toilet.
As an experienced industry insider, I engaged with UK HSE to define the non-negotiables for the next generation of offshore welfare. Griffin’s mission is to elevate human dignity and safety for technicians by designing safer, fully compliant solutions that raise welfare standards and simplify logistics.
The LiftaLoo offers a safer, smarter, and more efficient solution for offshore hygiene. It reduces HSE risk, simplifies certification and logistics, built to perform in harsh environments.
For companies focused on safety, compliance, and operational excellence, it’s a no-brainer. The cabin was developed using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to optimise the shape and material choice. Designed for operations in extreme conditions. Instead of rigid, brittle materials, we use low-density polyethylene for its elasticity – it flexes rather than fractures. The single central lifting point simplifies handling. It's a modular, moulded design – robust, compliant with latest HSE expectations. Safe. Full tank drop tests from 5m onto concrete prove its integrity.
Our 9 year journey in offshore wind sanitation has seen multiple awarded patents. Our latest iteration of the in turbine variant and our stand alone onshore vacuum systems has Griffin head and shoulders above the competition.
Griffin is proud to serve under female ownership and direction on both the board and administration levels, making our development work focused on hygiene and human factors.”
When Cargostore Worldwide launched LiftaLoo™ – the world’s first, single-point lift offshore welfare toilet unit – at Global
Offshore Wind 2025, its aim was to solve a significant problem facing the many thousands of engineers and maintenance
teams working on wind turbines and decommissioned oil rigs: the lack of dedicated toilet facilities.
IMPROVING HYGIENE STANDARDS
The absence of dedicated, hygienic facilities has long been a serious welfare concern across the industry. The LiftaLoo™ was
developed specifically to address this gap. Its reception at Global Offshore Wind 2025 reflected a timely alignment between a
market requirement and a purpose-built solution.
Offshore operators quickly recognised its potential in helping them meet growing Health, Safety and Environment (HSE)
obligations, and many expressed a desire to ‘move beyond the makeshift’ alternatives in favour of a dedicated, certified facility.
The LiftaLoo™ delivers on that promise. Key features include a sealed waste tank with rapid swapout capability, warm running
water with a removable, rechargeable battery, solar-powered lighting, a biodegradable sanitary bin for safe and discreet disposal of hygiene products, and a porcelain bowl with a patented seat design optimised for comfort and cleanliness.
Crucially, its LOLER-certified single lifting point allows crews to move it quickly and safely from vessel to platform. Four lashing points allow it to be rapidly fixed to external decks for stability in the most challenging environments.
Andrew Moll, global operations manager at Cargostore Worldwide, explained that demand for LiftaLoo™ accelerated almost immediately after launch, but so did the learning curve.
“Launching at Global Offshore Wind was one thing,” he said. “Getting units straight out into live offshore environments was where the real validation happened.”
Early deployments highlighted just how critical robust welfare infrastructure is offshore. They also generated valuable operational feedback from technicians and site managers working in exposed, high-wind and subzero conditions.
“We saw extended siting requests almost straight away,” Andrew said. “Operators didn’t just want a temporary welfare solution. They wanted something that could remain safely in place for months.”
One example emerged during cold weather deployments, where extreme conditions caused the waste tank chemical to freeze.
While the unit remained structurally sound and fully compliant, this highlighted an opportunity to further enhance the waste system for sub-zero environments. Rather than applying incremental adjustments, Cargostore formalised the next phase of development to exceed its own rigorous quality benchmarks.
“We knew the product was already revolutionary,” Andrew said. “The question became how to harden it for longer deployments and scale production without compromising quality.”
To achieve this, Cargostore partnered with Tharsus, a product design and advanced manufacturing specialist. Collaborating with Tharsus meant the LiftaLoo™ maintained the accolade of being fully designed, developed and produced in the UK.
THE THARSUS IMPACT
Tharsus operates under a “Solve + Scale + Supply” model, supporting industrial clients in strengthening both product performance and manufacturing capability.
The collaboration with Cargostore centred on the optimisation of its integrated power and water systems.
By significantly increasing battery capacity, the system could support a more powerful water heating process paired with advanced UV water treatment.
To prepare for larger-scale production the focus shifted to certification, strengthening supply chain robustness and implementing enhanced quality management processes.
“Cargostore was clear about what success looked like,” said Dave Swan, chief technical officer at Tharsus. “They had a strong product and clear market demand. Our role was to help reinforce and industrialise that capability so it could perform consistently in some of the most demanding offshore conditions.”
The partnership also ensured that production timelines could meet growing market requirements without compromising compliance, structural integrity or operational reliability.
“For offshore operators, delivery dates matter,” Andrew explained. “If we commit, we deliver. That discipline is built into both the product and the manufacturing process.”
AN IDEAL PARTNERSHIP
With offshore wind employment forecast to more than double and decommissioning activity increasing steadily through to the 2070s, welfare provision is moving from afterthought to expectation.
The LiftaLoo™ represents that shift. A purpose-built, certified offshore welfare unit refined through live deployment, strengthened through engineering partnership and manufactured to scale.
“Dignity offshore shouldn’t be optional,” Andrew concluded. “It should be standard.”
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