Slips and falls make up most of the accidents that occur in workplaces according to the U.S. Department of Labor. These accidents comprise almost 25% of all injury claims and account for over 95 million lost work days per year. Slips and falls are also responsible for about 15% of all accidental deaths. To avoid becoming involved in a slip and fall accident, make sure you’re using Soybase Clean Original. This concrete degreaser uses anti-slip nanotechnology to coat your floors with a beautiful satin shine while increasing the coefficient of friction (CoF) keeping everyone upright. We also put together a few good steps for you to follow. Check out the list below.
Slip and Fall Prevention Tips
Make sure your employees are wearing the proper shoes with anti-slip treads, especially if they are working around wet floors on a regular basis. Make sure to take extra precautions in wet weather. You should also make sure everyone is walking slower in rain, ice, and snow. Make sure to wipe your feet when entering the building to dry off the bottoms of your shoes, this will also help stop the spread of excess water to other parts of the lobby, further reducing slip risks. That being said, facilities and maintenance should be using good practices to ensure the safety of everyone in the building.
Good cleaning practices are critical in maintaining the safety of your floor’s surface. If the facility’s cleaning habits are poor, employee injuries are more likely to occur. These injuries drive up insurance costs with worker’s compensation claims. Maintaining a proper routine housekeeping schedule will help keep floors in great shape so your employees will not fall.
Make sure you are planning ahead for inclement weather. By planning ahead you are preparing yourself for things that you know will need to be done as well as the personnel responsible for getting it done. Assign responsibilities to team leaders, having a group to take care of the outside needs and the inside preparations. The outside team should work to reduce all wet or slippery walking surfaces. The most reported types of surfaces where slip and fall injuries occur, for both inside and outside, include the following:
- Parking lots and sidewalks
Food preparation areas and
commercial kitchens
Shower stalls
Floors in general
Getting traction on outdoor surfaces during inclement weather is crucial in preventing slips and falls. For optimal traction control, make sure to follow these procedures below.
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Make sure your parking lots and sidewalks are clean and repaired from potholes and other cracks that can cause a trip and fall.
Remove any snow and ice as soon as possible. Shovel or sweep as necessary.
Use brightly colored dyed ice melt salt to mark the best paths for everyone to walk.
For indoors, you have a few different control measures that you’ll need to implement. Make sure to follow these tips:
Use adhesive striping material or anti-skid pads whenever possible to make sure rugs and mats do not move out of place.
Use anti-slip adhesive tapes in high traffic areas where accidents are more likely to happen.
Use the proper types of rugs and mats for entry ways, bathrooms, and food prep areas.
Clean up all spills as soon as they happen. Make sure that if it is raining outside you have adequate procedures to keep the excess water off the floor.Display the proper signs as needed such as “Caution”, “Wet Floor” and “Slippery When Wet”.
Soybase Clean – A Concrete Degreaser for Any Season
Cox Industries has been a leader in the industrial cleaning industry for over thirty years. We make the perfect concrete degreaser for any industry. Soybase Clean comes in its Original formula or you can purchase Soybase Foamy, Pre-Treatment, or Xtreme. No matter what type of surface you need to clean, we have the best cleaning solution. Our products are great for indoors and out. It cleans tile, concrete or asphalt surfaces. Soybase Clean cannot sanitize but we can specially mix it for disinfecting. If you are ready to invest in your employees by purchasing the strongest commercial degreaser products on the market, then please call Cox Industries. We allow your staff to work smarter, not harder. Call us today to learn more.