Slip Trip or Fall on Flooring

Slips, trips and falls are the second most common personal injury accidents after road traffic accidents. On stairways alone falls result in two million disabling injuries yearly, with industrial falls amounting to over 1000 deaths each year.

One of the main causes of falls is spillages on the floor surface such as oil, water and cleaning fluids; however there is another factor that is the cause of slips. Inappropriate flooring can reduce the friction between your foot and the flooring of a building, resulting in loss of grip making your feet slip on the floor surface.

In hazardous conditions it is advised that to reduce your risk of becoming the victim of a slip, trip or fall accident that you avoid walking in areas which pose slipping hazards and that you always clean up spills. However if, like in many cases, it is the flooring that is the cause of your slip, trip or fall accident then you should think about the possibility of replacing the flooring or coating it with a non slip surfacing material to reduce the risk of having a personal injury accident.

Over a third of all major personal injuries that are caused come from being the victim of a slip, trip or fall accident. The treatments of these injuries costs the health service on average a staggering 133 million every year. All of this however can be significantly reduced by rethinking the design and specification of the flooring that is used.

At the moment the design and specification of floor surfaces across most public buildings merely focuses on the material that will look best within the building and not much thought is given to the slippyness of the floor surface. Flooring in public buildings such as museums, hospitals, supermarkets, restaurants and schools etc needs to be chosen using anti spill treatments. Failure to not use the correct flooring could leave the owner of a public building open to a liable case being brought against them.

If you have become the victim of a personal injury accident in the last three years due to someone else’s negligence then get in touch with Accident Consultant today which is a sister site of ours.
Accident Consultant are leading experts in personal injury compensation claims. We work on a no win no fee basis meaning that in a successful compensation claim you keep all of the money that you are awarded as your fees are paid by the losing parties insurance company.

We will do everything in our power to make your claim a success. If you would like more information about slip, trip and fall accident claims then visit our main site Accident Consultant.

Alternatively is you would like to get a claim underway then call us today on 08081 68 69 70 and speak to one of our friendly advisors or fill in our online claim form to the right of this page and one of our experts will get back to you as soon as possible.