Assessing the slip resistance of flooring

Biomechanical gait analysis for the extraction of slip resistance test parameters.

Falling accidents caused by slipping represent a high proportion of all accidents and are cost intensive in industry as well as in the private sphere. To prevent such accidents, the slip resistance of flooring must be evaluated. Therefore, measurement methods are necessary. These methods must provide results that comply with an individual's perception of when a floor is slippery. This article d...

How to buy flooring having sustainable wet slip resistance.

Footing and gait of pigs on different concrete surfaces.

Because pigs frequently lose their footing and slip, it is important to understand slipping and its relation to different floor surfaces. An experiment was conducted to evaluate the gait and footing of young pigs walking on concrete floor surfaces having known friction characteristics and to determine critical skid resistance values in terms of the fitness of a concrete surface for flooring in ...

A review of current standards and continuing developments

F IN THE WORKPLACE are the number one preventable loss type; in public places falls are far and away the leading cause of injury. More than one million people suffer from slip, trip or fall injuries each year, and more than 16,000 die as a result of falls, second only to automobiles as a cause of death. Falls are estimated to cause at least 17 percent of occupational injuries, and more than 18 ...

An apparatus and a method for determining the slip resistance of shoes and floors by simulation of human foot motions.

An apparatus to measure the coefficient of kinetic friction (mu k) between the shoe sole and the underfoot surface was constructed, and a method including criteria to evaluate the risk of slipping during walking was developed. The apparatus is a prototype stationary step simulator capable of simulating the movements of a human foot and the forces applied to the underfoot surface during an actua...