What Is The Best Anti-Slip Flooring?

In most industrial and commercial environments, a heavy-duty floor that safely meets the requirements of a variety of traffic – pedestrian and mechanical – is an essential requirement. An anti-slip floor is a durable resin floor – a floor that is fully capable of withstanding repetitive pedestrian footfall, forklift, and other heavy traffic with the added bonus of slip resistance.

Anti-slip resin flooring comes with a textured finish – a far more slip-resistant surface than that of general concrete. The resin coating in anti-slip resin flooring may be installed over the top of an existing resin or concrete floor surface.

It’s not always necessary to replace the entire floor when installing a resin flooring surface. In turn, this allows for a cost-effect method of increasing floor grip devoid of the need to dislodge and replace the complete floor.

While anti-slip resin flooring does improve the grip of a flooring surface, there can be no true guarantee that the floor will be 100% slip-proof. Rather, anti-slip resin flooring offers a greatly improved grip on the surface of the floor and is, therefore a successful way to boost the slip-resistant properties.

Where Are Anti-Slip Resin Flooring Surfaces Most Commonly Installed?

Anti-slip floor surfaces are frequently used on factory floors, walkways, ramps, and gangways. Non-slip flooring products are widely utilised within the motor and pharmaceutical industries because of the durability and robust nature in addition to the slip-resistant attributes of the flooring.

The implementation of anti-slip floor surfaces doesn’t just stop there, though. These flooring surfaces are ideally suited to numerous other industrial and commercial settings whereby dry and wet materials may be responsible for creating a slippery surface.

Why is it Important to Consider Slip and Trip Risks?

Slips and trips are one of the biggest causes of serious injury in the workplace. This is particularly the case within the food industry where slips and trips occur four times more often than the average industry.

The Main cause of Slip and Trip Risks

One of the main causes for slips and trips in the workplace is due to floors being wet with water. On top of this, many food industries experience issues due to contaminated food product and even the fact that the wrong flooring system has been installed leading to uneven surfaces and lack of surface maintenance.

Having the right epoxy flooring is not only essential for ensuring the safety of your employees; it is also crucial for preventing contamination.

How can epoxy flooring prevent Slips and Trips?

One of the first things you should do is install the correct flooring in line with legal requirements. This gives you a good foundation to reduce ‘unnecessary’ trips.

You need to ensure you’re using safe cleaning methods, minimising product spillages and if spillages do occur you should ensure these are cleared up straight away. Please refer to our blog on how to care for your resin flooring. High quality resin flooring is the perfect flooring solution to prevent slips and trips in any workplace.

Always ensure that your workplace is clear of tripping hazards such as materials or equipment and ensure that appropriate lighting is installed to allow any obstructions to be seen.

Your workplace should be regularly inspected; ensuring your floor still has sufficient roughness. Furthermore, the inspection should highlight any changes in level. Walkways should be marked and holes or uneven surfaces should be removed.

Why Epoxy Flooring?

Resin floors can be installed with a natural anti-slip finish and the texture can be varied during the installation process. Resins offer chemical resistance, flexibility, full colour and strength.

Why Impact Flooring

As contractors in the anti-slip resin floor industry for many years, at Impact Flooring Services, we’ve been responsible for installing anti-slip flooring solutions for a wide range of clients throughout the United Kingdom. Our anti-slip resin flooring is not only tough, it offers an attractive finish into the bargain.

The flooring surfaces that we provide at Impact Flooring are suited to different industries, and all of these surfaces fully conform to stringent UK health and safety regulation standards. Our flooring solutions will help to improve the safety and longevity of your flooring.

Whether your requirements are specific or you are in need of some general advice, the friendly team at Impact Flooring is available to answer all of your questions. If you wish to find out more about our industrial or commercial flooring solutions or about any of our other services, simply get in touch with us!