Product Applications & Benefits
It's the Law "A COF of 0.5 is not intended to be an absolute value. A higher COF may be necessary for certain work tasks." The Americans with Disabilities Act, passed by Congress in July, 1992, Title III notes: For all business open to the public, ADA and ATBCB recommends, flooring and walkways have a higher level of coefficient of friction. There are severe penalties for failure to comply and tax benefits for those businesses taking steps to comply. OSHA sets many requirements for safe floors, walkways, and ramps under 29 CFR-1910 referring to providing floors of anti-slip surfaces or maintaining surfaces in non-slip conditions. |
No Slippin Way™ floor treatment is a guaranteed way to treat your floors to increase coefficient of friction and eliminate risk to your employees and customers from wet floors.
No Slippin Way is a chemical process that puts an invisible floor tread treatment onto the surface of hard mineral flooring.
Coefficient of Friction Accepted Industry Standards
As adopted by the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) and the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM): .50 COF or above has been traditionally recognized as providing non-hazardous walkway surfaces. "A static anti-slip coefficient of friction of .50 or above is considered a safe walkway surface with a dry condition. A reading below .50 is considered an unsafe walkway surface." (The Slip and Fall Handbook, S.I. Rosen, Hanrow Press, Columbia, MD. This book is used by attorneys in preparation for litigation involving slip/fall cases.
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The coefficient of friction is dramatically reduced when an untreated flat hard mineral walkway surface is subjected to liquid. A walkway surface treated with No Slippin Way floor treatment is actually safer in a wet condition than a dry untreated surface. For example, the coefficient of friction of a wet glazed tile surface on rubber soled shoes is about .17. The coefficient of friction on the same surface and shoes when No Slippin Way has been applied is .78, well above the .50 recommendation.
In brief, COF will decrease with non-treated floors, which will result to slippery floors. No Slippin Way non-slip, invisible floor-tread treatment will INCREASE COF when wet and will reduce the potential of slips and falls. Our floor-tread treatment when exposed to water, the surface is actually safer when wet. No Slippin Way reverses the COF significantly.
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