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Slip Testing: Did you Know?

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


SLIP TESTING FACTORS THAT AFFECT SLIP RESISTANCE

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