One of the major causes of injuries to pedestrians is slip and fall accidents. They may slip on something on the pavement, slip on public highways when crossing them, or slip or trip on something on the floor of your business. It doesn’t matter whether they are your employees, customers, or other visitors if they are injured on your premises: you can be held liable. In the case of public highways and pavements the local council may be held responsible, or it may be the fault of a contractor working on behalf of the council.

What you can be sure of, if someone is injured on your premises as the result of a slip, trip, or fall, is that there will be a small army of ambulance-chasing solicitors only too keen to provide their services to the injured party on a “no win, no fee” basis. This is because they know that they will usually win and claim a nice fat 25% (the usual fee) of all damages awarded by the court.

That means that, as the person responsible for the floor, you lose. You either pay the damages yourself or your insurance company does. If your insurance company does, your premium next year and ever after will go through the roof, so either way, you lose.

This is why it is critical to pay attention to floor safety on your premises. The problem is that you may believe that your floor is safe because you have it cleaned regularly, but it may not be. There is an almost limitless range of floor surfaces, some of which may be inherently dangerous, and others which may be safe when dry but dangerous if something is spilled on them.

The only way to know for sure is to have the floor surfaces tested by a professional company such as 4Earth Solutions. The company uses a special test called the Pendulum Test in order to establish safety or otherwise of a floor. If a reading of 36 or above is obtained, the floor is regarded as safe by the courts.

However, if the reading is less than 36, 4Earth Solutions has a wide range of anti-slip products that it manufactures that the floor can be treated with in order to bring it up to standard. The reason that there are so many products is because there are so many different floor surfaces, but the company will always be able to apply the most appropriate product from its’ range.


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About The Company:
4Earth Solutions is the leading manufacturer of anti-slip products for floors in the UK and has a suitable product to treat any type of floor surface.
4Earth Solutions (UK) Ltd
34 Longmeadows,
Sunderland, SR3 3SB
United Kingdom
[email protected]
https://4earthsolutions.com/