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The case for SlipAlert

SlipAlert should become the standard measure of floor slip risk across Europe . You may feel this is an extravagant claim of the type you would expect from the manufacturer of a slip test device. However we make no apology for our claims regarding the benefits of SlipAlert and this paper is designed to convince you that SlipAlert is the best slip measurement device. It should be adopted across Europe in a bid to reduce slip accidents.

You will read that SlipAlert outperforms other test machines in almost every way. It may be natural to dismiss these claims as the hyperbolae of the manufacturer; we would ask you to consider the level of detail in our understanding of pedestrian slip risk borne out of use of SlipAlert measurements from real floors. We ask you to try SlipAlert and consider the potential benefits for floor safety if it were widely adopted across Europe.

If there was a slip test method able to significantly reduce slip accidents, would you want to consider it properly?

Test our claims – try SlipAlert

All of the claims we make are easy to test. For example, we claim that SlipAlert is consistent and easy to use providing good results for repeatability and reproducibility. We claim it reflects actual slip risk, and we claim it can be used to detect contamination or poor cleaning of a floor. These claims can easily be tested and we challenge you to try SlipAlert and judge for yourself. Included below are simple tests that you can use to verify these claims. No other machine will outperform SlipAlert in testing for slip risk.

How to measure a new test machine when there is no definitive benchmark measure...

Pedestrian slipping involves a complex interaction between the person’s shoe/foot, the floor surface and any contamination between the floor surface and the shoe. There is no definitive benchmark measure, because different machines measure different aspects of slip risk. So, how can we assess a new slip test machine?

SlipAlert outperforms the best machines currently in use:

• Designed to simulate the physics of an actual pedestrian slip

• Like the Pendulum, SlipAlert has been shown to match closely with actual slip experience. SlipAlert is quicker and easier to use and delivers more precise measurements and more reliable measures.

• Like the German Ramp Test, SlipAlert offers reliable results yet SlipAlert can be used to measure floors in-situ and any user will obtain reliable results

A step change in floor safety

SlipAlert has lived in the shadow of the Pendulum for too long. It is a better slip test machine than any other and far better than most. It offers enormous potential to transform floor safety, to encourage the buying of floors with suitable slip resistance and durability of slip resistance, to encourage effective floor maintenance and to encourage effective cleaning. Widespread appropriate use of SlipAlert will improve floor safety and will reduce accidents.

You can make a step change in floor safety across Europe . If you read this document, try SlipAlert and if you agree with us, then please encourage your colleagues and CEN TC339 representatives to fully consider the merits of SlipAlert.

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Download the TC339 case for SlipAlert in prin format