74%
left work to obtain a product
Before in-cubicle provision, nearly three-quarters of respondents said they had left work at some point to find a menstrual product.
Built for healthcare facilities
Keep period care close—and clinical teams moving.
Pads on a Roll puts free pads inside the restroom stall, where staff, patients, and visitors need them. Healthcare teams get a discreet, compact system; procurement teams can buy the products through Staples.
Egal Pads on a Roll and compatible dispensers are listed on Staples.com. Availability, account pricing, and delivery terms are determined by Staples.
The healthcare case
Centralized supplies create hidden operational friction.
Healthcare campuses are large, shift-based, and difficult to leave. When menstrual products live in a supply closet, staff office, or distant restroom, a routine biological need can pull staff away from their work area.
A January 2026 study at an anonymized, approximately 6,000-person NHS trust modeled the cost of that friction. The analysis is illustrative—not a forecast for every US health system—but it gives facility and workforce leaders a practical way to see costs that rarely appear as a budget line.
Read the full healthcare economic case study17 min
average time away
The reported average time away to retrieve a product from any location on or off the healthcare estate was just under 17 minutes.
£73K
modeled annual staff-time cost
For the illustrative 6,000-person trust, conservative estimates combined work interruption, absenteeism, and presenteeism.
10×
Illustrative modeled return
A small facilities investment can recover a much larger time cost.
The study compared approximately £7,400 in annual product provision with roughly £73,000 in modeled staff-time costs. The estimate excludes harder-to-measure effects on patient care, clinical risk, retention, and wellbeing.
The point-of-use system
Treat pads like the restroom essential they are.
Pads on a Roll takes a familiar facilities format—a compact roll—and places it inside the cubicle beside toilet paper. Staff do not need coins, an app, or a trip to a central supply point.
Keep staff near patients
Place pads inside the cubicle so a routine need does not require a trip across a ward, floor, building, or campus.
Protect privacy and dignity
A product is available at the point of use—without asking a colleague, improvising with tissue, or leaving the stall.
Make restocking routine
Compact rolls refill in seconds and fit a facilities workflow that already understands roll-based consumables.
Show staff they were considered
In-cubicle access turns period care into visible workplace infrastructure rather than an informal favor or emergency workaround.
Designed for facility operations
Compact rolls. Fast refills. Less packaging.
Standard rolls contain 40 individually wrapped pads. The format uses substantially less storage space than folded pads and removes the carton-by-carton handling of ad hoc baskets.
- 40 pads per standard roll
- 12 rolls per Staples carton
- No power or plumbing
- Dispenser refills in seconds
Buy through Staples
Put Pads on a Roll into the procurement path your team already uses.
Start with pad rolls and compatible dispensers, or browse Staples Business Advantage’s complete period-care assortment for a coordinated healthcare restroom program.
Staples item 24593337
Pads on a Roll · 40 pads per roll
12 rolls per carton, 480 pads total. Compatible with Egal black and stainless dispensers.
View on Staples
Staples item 24593339
Stainless Pad Roll Dispenser · 5 per box
A compact, wall-mountable dispenser sized for one 40-pad roll in every stall.
View on StaplesNeed another dispenser finish or a broader period-care program?
Staples Business Advantage also lists Egal black and stainless dispensers inside its commercial sanitary dispenser assortment.
Facilities sell sheet
The complete system, ready for a facilities order.
Use the product details below to choose pads, dispenser finishes, and installation accessories. Then combine the Egal order with the cleaning and janitorial products already purchased through Staples Business Advantage.
Browse Staples cleaning & janitorial suppliesStandard · SKU 2101
Pads on a Roll · 40 pads per roll
- Comfortable 4–6 hour, paper-wrapped pad
- 12 rolls per box · 480 pads total
- Pad: 4 × 9 in · Roll: 5 in diameter × 3 in wide
- No chlorine bleach, perfumes, or dyes · Not flushable
Plant-based · SKU 2107
Plant-based · 30 pads per roll
- Tested biodegradable and tested landfill performance
- 12 rolls per box · 360 pads total
- FSC-certified cellulose, corn-based bioplastic, and paper wrapper
- No cotton, superabsorbent polymers, chlorine bleach, perfumes, or dyes
Dispensers
3101 / 3102
Black or stainless, box of 5. Compact 6.7 in diameter × 3.5 in deep; snap-out key included.
Tampon holder
3103
Mounts behind the dispenser with no extra hardware. Box of 5.
Pilot adapter
3104
Tool-free pilot mounting plate using strong 3M tape. Box of 5.
<30 sec
sell-sheet refill time
<10%
of the toilet-paper budget
1/5
the storage space of boxed, vended pads
What healthcare staff said
The response is practical, emotional, and immediate.
“I regularly forget to keep pads in my bag, so having them there is great!”
“If this wasn’t here I would have panicked and left and been embarrassed.”
“Keep it up—amazing thing to have available for those who get caught out or otherwise might struggle for products.”
Start with a pilot or go system-wide
Make the rollout easy to buy—and easy to operate.
Use Staples for procurement, and bring Egal into the planning conversation for dispenser selection, restroom coverage, usage assumptions, and implementation guidance.