We Tested Granite Grip from BEHR
“slip-resistance is crucial for the safety of anyone walking on horizontal surfaces. That's why it's important to test products before installation to ensure they meet the necessary safety standards.”
Understanding Slip and Fall Accidents: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention
"Preventing slip and fall accidents requires a combination of strategies, including regular maintenance and inspections, employee training, and the use of appropriate safety equipment. By implementing best practices for slip and fall prevention, businesses and organizations can create safer environments for all. Slip and fall accidents are preventable, and by taking steps to address slip and fall hazards, we can reduce their incidence and promote safer environments."
Why Should You Seal Your Travertine Pavers?
What people see when they first see your newly installed travertine, is not the hours of hard work in installing every piece of stone and getting it just right… What people first see is the final product of it. This is why, sealing your travertine is the most important part of the job!
Top 5 Tips for Making Tile Flooring Less Slippery
If you have tile flooring in your house, you are probably aware of both its benefits and drawbacks. On one hand, they retain water much better than other types of flooring. On the other hand, tile floors can be very slippery, particularly when wet. This may lead to injuries, including severe ones. Therefore, making tile floors safer by minimizing slipperiness and enhancing grip is always a smart idea.
The ASTM C-1028 Scam
Floor safety experts nationwide and internationally, have considered this test to be a joke for many years! Yet this joke continues to be no laughing matter since companies keep sending their products to be tested using this outdated, withdrawn scam of a test!
ANSI A326.3 is the ONLY Standard to Follow
There is no longer any ANSI standard for measuring the Static Coefficient of Friction (SCOF), thus completing the transition in the United States away from the SCOF method to the globally recognized DCOF method.“
Why Wax Floors when you can BoostMAX Floors?
Whether you maintain a school having to shuffle desks around once or twice a year for a strip and wax, a healthcare facility in need of a safe and easy-to-maintain environment, a car dealership in need of a durable floor coating that holds up to heavy tire traffic, or a restaurant with greasy hard to clean floors, BOOST™ MAX is the perfect floor coating solution.
Updated ANSI A326.3 Officially Released
Tile Council of North America (TCNA) has announced the addition of a five-category “product use classification system” in ANSI A326.3 American National Standard Test Method for Measuring Dynamic Coefficient of Friction of Hard Surface Flooring Materials, published on February 2, 2022.
A Slip & Fall’s Prime Victim
My grandparents are no longer with us. I was very close to them and I loved them deeply. If they were still with us though, knowing the information I know now, I would do my absolute best to make sure all their floors are safe for them to walk on. I would make sure that their shower floors, bathtubs, front patios, pool decks, kitchen floors, any surface they walk on are all slip resistant and safe for them.
How to Clean a Floor to Keep it Safe
Most restaurants and businesses have their hired workers clean their floors at the end of the day when everyone is tired and ready to go home. The cleaning usually means that someone takes a dirty mop with some water, that they may or may not have changed out since the previous cleaning, and adds some sort of generic floor cleaner and mops the entire area as fast as they can to finish and go home.
High-Cost Strip & Wax vs. Low-Cost BoostMAX
BoostMAX is the world’s first High-Performance Slip Resistant Sealant with Ceramic Nano Particles. Every square foot of BoostMAX contains about 12 million ceramic particles suspended on the surface of this flexible coating system.
3 Stages to Slip Risk Assessment & Prevention
Many of these areas can experience some sort of contamination due to negligence. If an area becomes contaminated with water or any other liquid substance, make sure that your team is properly trained to identify it immediately and to clean it up.
5 Benefits for Traction Enhancing Treatments
This type of treatment does not leave anything on your tile, it does not create any film that can peel over time. This treatment actually creates a series of microscopic mountain peaks and valleys in your tile.
Why Should I Test My Floor?
In the United States, there is only one standard that is acceptable for measuring slip resistance. It is the ANSI A326.3 which tests for the DCOF of a surface and requires the DCOF to measure above a 0.42 to be compliant with the standard.