Your slippery floor might well cost you £100,000 (or more) this year…

Here’s How To Avoid paying that money - - Ever

Slip and Trip Injuries - Account For

• 33% of all reported injuries

• 20% of over-3-day injuries to employees

• 50% of all reported accidents to members of the public

•       95% of all major slip accidents result in broken bones

                                  Slip = Money

NO SKIDDING TREATMENTS

The long lasting solution to the problem of slippery when wet floors

• Increases co-efficient of friction on floor surfaces to meet and exceed HSE minimum requirements of the surface when wet.
  
• Lasts for years – not a coating that will wear off.
  
• Clear solution.
  
• Suitable for stone surfaces including ceramic, quarry tile, terrazzo, granite, marble, concrete, slate, porcelain etc.
  

• Only treatment system in the world available in custom formulations for different stone surfaces.

The Assessment of Slipperiness:

The HSE Approach

The law requires that floors must not be slippery, so as to expose any person to a risk to their safety (The workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 19992). ¹ 

The characteristics of floor surface materials, required to provide satisfactory, slip resistance have traditionally been considered difficult to assess.  However, research carried out by HSE at HSL, in conjunction with the UK Slip Resistance Group (UKSRG) and  the British Standards Institution, has shown that this is not the case.

The slipperiness of flooring materials, can be accurately assessed by using commercially available, portable scientific test instruments.

HSE/HSL has developed a reliable and robust test method using these instruments for the assessment of floor surface slipperiness in work place and public areas.  The method has been used as a basis of significant HSE and Local Authority enforcement, from advice through to improvement notices, or ultimately prosecution.

The method developed is based on the use of two instruments:

• A ‘Pendulum’ coefficient of friction (CoF) test (HSE’s preferred method of slipperiness assessment); 

•  A surface roughness meter

 

 


Brian Philbin

   Director


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