Updated Sept 2022.
How can you reliably prevent people from slipping in a busy building (especially a factory)? It’s a top priority to avoid workplace injuries, and worst-case scenario, a fatality. Safe Industrial answers the question, with location-specific slip reduction mats.
Slips, trips and falls are the most common workplace accidents (29%). They even outrank injuries caused by improper lifting and handling techniques. This prevalence means they contribute a hefty sum towards the £5.2billion cost of non-fatal injuries in UK factories, offices, warehouses and commercial venues.
Even more alarmingly, those largely preventable slips, trips and falls contributed to the 147 workplace fatalities in the UK in 2019. Something no employer can take lightly.
The solution is not always straightforward in a busy industrial set-up or public venue, especially one with diverse operational areas. There is no non-slip flooring option that suits all situations, and that prevents people from slipping on walkways, steps and factory floors or within garages and sports halls for instance.
We look at locational risks, and the best slip reduction products to manage each area of your workplace.
Entrance matting
When you walk into the entrance or lobby of a building with a tiled floor, the chances of you slipping are pretty high, especially if it’s been raining or you have no grip on your shoes.
The transition from the rough exterior floor surface to a smooth interior floor surface needs to be separated with sturdy anti-slip entrance matting that can absorb any moisture and dirt so you can avoid any embarrassing slips or worse, actual injury.
Workstation safety mats
Any industrial process that involves liquids, or a degree of waste debris, can be particularly prone to creating a hazardous floor surface. Also, the COVID-19 pandemic means all employers need to provide plenty of handwashing basins and hand sanitation points; both of which can create workplace slip risks in multiple business locations.
A quick and cost-effective solution is to find good quality workstation safety matting. It can be placed around sinks, hand gel dispensers, machinery and other slip hot spots.
We are a supplier of individual COBAmat® sections, a versatile way to give employees a firm walking surface. They trap materials and liquids in the mesh. The yellow safety bevelled edging also draws attention to places people can slip in your workplace.
Eco-Industrial Floor Covering
Some businesses need anti-slip matting that covers an extensive area, where moisture, grease and other floor-level contaminants create a serious Health and Safety risk. This is especially true of mechanical garages, loading bays or anywhere vehicles and pedestrians share a floor surface.
Rather than replacing slip resistance matting frequently, you need durable industrial flooring to protect staff from accidents. This is something our easy-to-fit Tough Lock Eco-Industrial Floor Covering offers. It’s also a sustainable Health & Safety product, as it is constructed using 100% recycled, firmly bonded PVC.
Tough Lock Eco is a great way to reduce slips in both heavy and light industrial environments. Yet, even when commissioned in large quantities, it’s also a cost-effective interlocking anti-slip system for floors.
Rubber Gym flooring
Not all workplaces and public areas can use highly practical, industrial floor coverings to prevent slips. A far better solution is to specify specialist sports hall flooring materials, for aesthetically pleasing anti-slip floors.
Our Sport Tile Rubber Gym Flooring looks the part and feels great underfoot. However, it’s also engineered to protect the floor from both heavy footfall and potential damage caused by friction or impact from such items as popular gym equipment. Easy to install, interlocking and hard-wearing, the non-porous rubber floor tiles manage moisture build-up. They even act as noise reduction flooring for sports venues and other business locations.
Disinfectant footbath mat
In response to COVID-19, hand hygiene is not the only big issue for many workplaces. Systems to keep footwear free of contaminates – and slippery residue – are also increasingly common.
Our specialist HygiWell Disinfectant Foot Bath Mat can be installed at entrances/exits to remove dirt and debris from the bottom of footwear. However, the deep grooves in the durable 100% recycled REACH-compliant PVC material also act as a disinfectant well. They are the ideal way to both scrape and disinfect the bottom of shoes and boots for infection control and accident prevention.
Getting your anti-slip flooring right
Shopping around to find safety mats and flooring materials for industrial environments has been made much simpler, with the new anti-slip range introduced by the responsive team at Safety Industrial.
We are always happy to help customers to map out locational challenges, and to find the ideal mix of slip reduction products. That way, we can help you to avoid accidents, lost production days and Health & Safety penalties. It can also protect your reputation as a caring employer, who takes safety seriously!