YOUR FLOOR, YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
We all have a responsibility for workplace health and safety. Accidents from slips, trips and falls constitute around 23% of all workplace injuries. More alarming is that injury deaths from slips trips and falls across the entire population are the highest of any other group – including transport related deaths.
DID YOU KNOW?
Cost to the public from hospitalisation is $1.3 billion p.a. – excluding indirect costs such as writs
Workplace average cost of a Slip, Trip or Fall is $48 billion. Average cost to business is $144,000 for a single event
The highest single settlement for a slip injury in Australia cost the defendant $2.7 million
WorkSafe inspectors will look for compliance in wet prone areas and for new floors’ compliance with slip resistance under relevant Standards
An owner or occupier of premises owes a duty to take such care to see that any person on the premises will not be injured
You can measure the risk of slipping
Please contact us for all your slip testing needs.
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