Slip Prevention
Take control of floor safety, save time and money.
Discover how you can quickly and easily take control of floor safety, save time, save the company money and protect your business.
Slips an accident waiting to happen
Slips are the biggest cause of major injuries with 10,000+ people suffering broken bones or major injuries every year in the UK. Major injuries caused by slips have risen year on year for over 7 years Slip prevention is also the least regulated and least well understood aspect of health and safety. Coincidence?
Who is accountable?
Who is accountable if someone slips in your business? The cleaning manager, the owner of the building, your MD, the H&S Manager, your flooring supplier? If you are having slip accidents and slip injuries then its time to take action – Contact SlipAlert.
SlipAlert makes floor safety easier than ever before
With SlipAlert it takes seconds to test each of your floors and determine which floors are safe and which require careful managing. SlipAlert can save you time, save you money and help you to prevent slip accidents and serious injuries.
- Save time
- Save money
- Reduce slip accidents and injuries
Floor Safety Matters...
Nearly 40% of serious accidents start with a slip. Slips account for 600,000 hospital bed days in the UK every year.
You can reduce slipping accidents
Most slip accidents can be prevented. For every serious slip accident, there are 40 minor slips. When someone slips on one of your floors, you have a duty to investigate and measure the slip risk before someone is injured.
Slip Risk Explained
Slip risk is affected by the floor surface, the mode of walking and by any contamination between you and the floor. SlipAlert is designed to make it easy for you to measure the factors you can control: the slip resistance of the floor surface and the slip resistance including any contamination on the floor.
Using SlipAlert results and the three layer-model
Testing your floors is quick and easy with SlipAlert. When you test your floors, you will find that different floors present different slip risk when wet or dry or affected by other contaminants. We will be happy to help you to understand and manage slip risks and to design a floor safety regime that saves you time, saves you money and reduces slip risk and slip accidents. SlipAlert puts you in control.
Managing slip risks
Simple precautions will reduce slipping accidents. Understanding the slip risk of your floors will help your staff to work together to reduce slip risk. Some floors are safe and will rarely pose a slip risk, but HSE tests how that most floors can become a slip risk when wet.
Did you know?
So far this year slips have cost society at least:
50%
of all accidents to the public are slips and trips.