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Flooring: Preventing Slip And Fall Accidents

June 23, 2008 – 1:49 pm
Preventing slip and fall accidents begins with a top-notch educational program for your workers. Even if you cant ensure the maximum safety for your employees, you can still make in-roads. Reducing the rate of slips and falls on the factory floor will boost worker morale as well as make it less likely that youll end up as a defendant in a personal injury lawsuit. The key to communicating with your workers is consistent reinforcement.In other words, preventing slip and fall accidents comes down to repetition. Theres a reason why employers post signage over dangerous areas. Employees, who are usually busy with numerous tasks at once, may not remember to observe their best working protocol. However, when they glance up and see a sign that reads danger, they subconsciously revert to their safety training.Preventing Slip and Fall Accidents through Consistent ReinforcementThe consistent reinforcement provided by ...

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Flooring: Safe Steps And Walkways

June 22, 2008 – 1:49 pm
Safe steps and walkways are easy to maintain, provided that you have the proper equipment. Maintaining exterior walkways will help you avert nasty slips and falls in the wintertime. Moreover, keeping alert for black ice will make you generally more cautious when it comes to driving. The key to acclimating to winter weather is to anticipate delays--and to accept them.In addition to monitoring your safe steps and walkways, check all of your winter equipment. Test out your snowblower and your tire chains in the fall, before winter weather hits. Theres nothing more frustrating than a broken snowblower in the midst of a blizzard. If youre really interested in maintaining safe steps and walkways, you need to put in the legwork before the emergencies arrive.Safe Steps and Walkways in the WintertimeThat said, no amount of prophylactic action can prepare you for every winter exigency. ...

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Flooring: Resistance Against Slipping

June 21, 2008 – 1:49 pm
Resistance against slipping will ensure maximum safety for your employees. However, preventing slip and fall accidents is not always possible. As a conscientious employer, you want to do everything in your power to keep your laborers safe. Despite numerous consumer and employee protection programs and dozens, if not hundreds, of OSHA safety guidelines, workers are still hurting themselves on the job.What can you do to go the extra mile to prevent unnecessary slip and fall accidents? First of all, you can purchase nonskid flooring tiles to ensure extra resistance against slipping. While fortified resistance against slipping wont guarantee that your laborers will be fine, its a good start. I also recommend posting extra signage, even to the point of redundancy.Preventing Injuries with Fortified Resistance Against SlippingAfter all, redundant signage tends to do a better job of reaching out to employees. This is not ...

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Flooring: Resilient Flooring

June 20, 2008 – 1:49 pm
Resilient flooring is easy to install, especially if youre running a relatively moderate industrial operation. That said, resilient flooring can be a problem if you dont go the extra lengths to prevent slip and fall accidents. You need to balance worker safety concerns with your worries about the companys bottom line. Investing in employee resources is the surest way to a sound financial future.Of course, budgeting for the maximum safety for your employees means spending a little more on the workplace environment. In addition to resilient flooring, you might want to invest in brighter track lighting and more visible signage. I also encourage employers to allow their workers to take ample breaks to refresh and rejuvenate.Promoting Productivity with Resilient FlooringAfter all, tired workers tend to make more mistakes. Thats why so many companies--both domestically and in Asia--have started employing more liberal break policies. ...

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Flooring: Bamboo Wood Flooring

June 19, 2008 – 1:49 pm
In recent years, bamboo wood flooring has fallen into favor with interior designers, do-it-yourself home improvement enthusiasts, and environmentalists alike. The bamboo plant is a grass, not a tree, which means that its renewal cycle is relatively short--just four to five years to go from seedling to full maturity. This quick rejuvenation rate allows a bamboo forest to replenish itself in a much shorter amount of time than any of the other popular hardwoods available today.Bamboo wood flooring is harder and more stable than Red Oak, and just as hard as Hard Maple. Being a tropical plant, bamboo is super-resistant to moisture. Moisture is the main cause of warping and gapping in hardwood floors. Every time there is humidity in the air a wood board expands as it absorbs the moisture. Then when the seasons change and the air dries out again, the board ...

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