Anti Slip Flooring

Summary

Anti Slip Flooring - Solution applied to concrete floors to radically improve slip resistance, particularly when wet.

Technical Information

Anti-Slip Floor Coatings

The need to provide anti-slip flooring systems is often to meet the need of the service conditions relevant to the floor location.

In production areas that use oils, greases, and polishes there is a high probability that they will spill on the floor. The build up of these contaminants can dramatically reduce the slip resistance of a concrete floor. In order to increase the slip resistance of a floor, contaminants would have to be removed and the floor surface could also be textured to provide greater slip resistance on the surface. This could be done by mechanically abrading the surface, for example by using shot blasting machinery.

As a general rule the heavier the likely build up of contaminants the more coarse the surface texture needs to be to maintain the required level of slip resistance. However, coarse textured surfaces are more difficult to clean. So where both slip resistance and ease of cleaning are important, a compromise must be made.

Flooring should be selected with sufficient texture to suit specific working conditions, hygiene standards and a programme of frequent effective cleaning must be put in place.