Find Out How Not To Get Sued With Industrial Flooring
In this quasi-American culture of law suit crazy capital gain, as not only a business owner but as a manager, it is essential that you do everything in your power to avoid being held accountable for accidents in your workplace. With legislative changes that happened at the turn of the century now top ranking company officials can face criminal charges for health and safety negligence.
Industrial flooring is a great example of the current health and safety environment that we work in. It is safe to say that most employers generally focus on creating an environment that is safe for their employees and that in life as well as the workplace, accidents will happen. Now all assumptions of the remotest trace of common sense or self preservation must be eliminated when considering health and safety for prospective employees.
Does any of it actually make the workplace safer? No is the answer, as accidents happen. The culture of suing your employer for compensation because an accident happened in the work place has created a world of accident prone work staff looking for that golden ticket, whether it be a spillage or a cable tie lying on the ground. Traditional industrial flooring is concrete and most accidents happen in jobs involving manual labour, usually located in the industrial sector.
To avoid being held accountable for these sorts of mishaps there are certain steps that can be taken to show that everything within your company's power has been done to minimize risk. Firstly is all the mandatory health and safety inductions that must be completed and are no doubt already in place, however this does not cover you for actual acts of stupidity. To be fully covered you need to have the mandatory safety equipment.
It is a fact that a large percentage of accidents in the workplace happen due to falls, slips and trips. Traditional industrial flooring offers no protection against this and also deteriorates, adding to hazards. New composite industrial flooring uses combinations of plastics and fibreglass to create slip resistant and anti corrosive surfaces that are not only easier to maintain and install, they are safer.
There is a wide range out there and if you are the manager of a workplace that is due a refurbishment then this could be well worth looking at. Products such as rubber floor matting even if it is only in strategically placed areas that are prone to slip hazards, can create a safer working environment. Their design makes them slip and corrosion resistant while actually protecting the flooring below them from the impact of dropped items.
Other industrial flooring solutions are fibre glass slabs which can offer durable slip proof solutions to concrete industrial flooring and also anti slip fibre glass tread can provide safe walkways through industrial areas that are prone to spillage. There are many online retailers of these products and the initial investment can be returned through maintaining a safe work environment.
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Dominic Donaldson is an expert on http://www.duracomposites.com/"> industrial flooring and contributes to trade publications on the subject.
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