What is the cause of slip and fall accidents?

Slip resistance is affected by floor material and finish, pedestrian shoe bottom material and texture, environmental surface contaminants and pedestrian gait dynamics. How the pedestrian performs his behavioral dynamics may be beyond one’s control and sometimes shoe characteristics are relatively uncontrollable. However, floor construction and maintenance relative to surface condition and contamination are almost always controllable, therefore, providing the greatest opportunities for responsible parties to affect slip resistance under foot.  

The property of a floor that makes it slip resistant is its surface roughness. On a microscopic level, all surfaces have peaks and valleys. However, they must be tall enough and sharp enough to extend upward to engage a shoe bottom in a manner not unlike sand paper. For additional information, visit www.getagripdontslip.com.