Painted Concrete Floors Can Lead to Slip & Fall Accidents

Most concrete surfaces have a naturally rough, textured surface. The property of a floor that makes it slip resistant is its surface roughness. This allows for a solid, safe interface between the walking surface and the individual’s shoe, even when the surface is wet. On a microscopic level, all surfaces have peaks and valleys. When paint is applied to the concrete surface, the paint fills the valleys leveling off the properties that create a safe walking surface. When a wet or otherwise lubricated contaminate is applied to the painted surface, this can lead to a Maxi-Slip or as it is technically referred to as “Boundary Lubrication”. In this consideration, only part of the shoe bottom contact area touches the surface while the remainder skims over a foreign contaminant, causing a slip and fall.

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