Slips and Falls

According to the National Safety Council, slips and falls are the leading cause of death in the workplace and the source of more than 20 percent of disabling injuries - resulting in more than 1,500 fatalities and more than 564,000 disabling injuries annually.

Slips and falls cost American businesses a fortune in lost productivity, workers' compensation insurance, and other expenses. Health care costs alone amount to more than $37 billion each year. The psychological damage in pain, anguish, and the loss of worker morale are beyond measure. With this notorious record, slips and falls have to be considered the number one enemy of work place safety.

Because slips and falls are so common, they are often thought to be inevitable - a cost of doing business. Sometimes they are dismissed as unpredictable accident.

Slips and falls are not accidents, they are the opposite.  Slips and falls are the predictable consequence of foot traffic on smooth, contaminated surfaces.  When contaminants combine with a naturally smooth, non-porous surface such as steel, concrete- especially coated concrete-diamond plate, or tile, slips and falls are inevitable.