Specific Locations Where Slip Resistance Testing Is Crucial Popular culture has directed attention toward the importance of anti-slip items. In one episode of the popular American TV comedy series, “The Big Bang Theory,” the female character, Penny, slipped in her bathtub and broke her arm. This prompted her to seek the help of socially awkward … Continue reading “Specific Locations Where Slip Resistance Testing Is Crucial”
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Prevent Slips and Falls in Your Store’s Premises with the Use of the BOT 3000
Prevent Slips and Falls in Your Store’s Premises with the Use of the BOT 3000 When you open your small business’s doors to the public, you have to accept the fact that there will always be the potential of liability should a slip or fall occur within your store’s premises. And whether you are proven … Continue reading “Prevent Slips and Falls in Your Store’s Premises with the Use of the BOT 3000”
How Your Slip Coefficient Rating Can Guarantee Safety
How Your Slip Coefficient Rating Can Guarantee Safety A safe walking surface should not be too hard to achieve. Whether it’s wet or dry, the floors in your property should create an accident-free environment. Unfortunately, that is not always the case with many places. According to a slip-fall statistics, slip and fall accidents account for … Continue reading “How Your Slip Coefficient Rating Can Guarantee Safety”
“All Floors are Slippery When Wet — Right?”
Not right. The right flooring for the situation can be safely slip-resistant when wet or even when lubricated with oil or grease, as in a commercial kitchen or a parking structure. Most people will accept that a concrete sidewalk or a black-top road is slip-resistant wet for pedestrians. We can safety walk or even jog … Continue reading ““All Floors are Slippery When Wet — Right?””
Slip-Resistant Testing
Ever worried about your business being liable for someone slipping on your floor, or slipping on the concrete by your pool? Slipping can be dangerous and can severely injure someone. Falls are the leading cause of nonfatal injuries with an average of 13,000,000 accounting for 35% of injuries in the last recorded year. That’s why … Continue reading “Slip-Resistant Testing”
Falls Deaths in the USA: a 9/11 Every Six Weeks
The National Safety Council’s (NSC) latest published statistics show that falls are causing 28,000 deaths in the USA annually (see p. 19 of their report). This is the equivalent of a 9/11/2001 attack every six weeks, all year long. Moreover, falls deaths are approaching motor-vehicle deaths. Safety Direct America offers products and services that can … Continue reading “Falls Deaths in the USA: a 9/11 Every Six Weeks”
Natural Stone with Sustainable Slip Resistance Wet
Flooring that gets high foot traffic and can get wet or greasy in use needs slip resistance (or skid resistance) that stands up well under wear rather than losing its wet slip resistance after a few weeks. McDonalds Restaurants spent years in research and devised a laboratory slip test that assesses how well the wet … Continue reading “Natural Stone with Sustainable Slip Resistance Wet”
Stop Slips on Cruise Ships!
Since 2008, Safety Direct America has been helping some of the world’s foremost cruise ship companies to prevent slips and falls by helping their designers choose flooring appropriate to the situation (with the correct level of wet coefficient of friction). The work improves safety both on new cruise ships and on ships that are routinely … Continue reading “Stop Slips on Cruise Ships!”
OSHA’s “Suggestion” for Minimum Floor Coefficient of Friction (COF)
We often hear the question, “What does OSHA require for floor slip resistance?” The answer is that OSHA doesn’t require anything, but nevertheless has caused a lot of confusion for employers and the public on this subject. There has never been an official OSHA slip test or safety standard for flooring. In a nonmandatory appendix … Continue reading “OSHA’s “Suggestion” for Minimum Floor Coefficient of Friction (COF)”
How to Prevent Slips and Falls on a Swimming Pool Deck
Unfortunately, many swimming pool decks are slippery when wet as installed! This can and too often does lead to severe accidents for both children and adults. The deck that was supposed to supply fun for the family, club members, or the public becomes a liability that causes pain, suffering, expensive medical treatment, and income losses. … Continue reading “How to Prevent Slips and Falls on a Swimming Pool Deck”