Floor Slip-Resistance Monitoring Services
Periodic monitoring of your floors’ slip resistance (coefficient of friction) can have these benefits:
Our floor slip-resistance testing can be both dry and wet where appropriate. Many floors are perfectly safe when clean and dry although they are slippery when wet. If a floor is dry more than 98 percent of the time it is in use, dry testing alone may be adequate. If a floor or footwear are likely to be wet in use from tracked-in rain and snow, dripping umbrellas or raincoats, swimming pool water, etc., both dry and wet slip-resistance monitoring are called for.
A dry floor may be perfectly safe, but that won’t stop pedestrians from suing for a fall that may have been caused not by your floor but by their footwear, impairment by alcohol or by legal or illegal drugs, by various medical conditions — or simply by the claimant’s creativity. Your due diligence defends you against charges of negligence, and that’s the key word in a lawsuit. Your floor slip test monitoring records can sometimes be the only defense you need to discourage frivolous or fraudulent lawsuits.
We can monitor the slip resistance of your floor with both hard and soft rubber test feet, representing dress shoes and athletic shoes (or bare feet) respectively.
Frequency of floor slip-resistance testing/monitoring. The appropriate frequency of monitoring depends on several factors. Many property owners specify quarterly monitoring because that’s a typical turnover period for floor maintenance personnel.
High-traffic areas need frequent monitoring because of the importance that wear and soiling can have on slip resistance. For low-traffic areas, annual monitoring may be sufficient. For any area, from a due diligence standpoint occasional monitoring is far better than none at all.
Data quality. Accurate data from a validated tribometer (floor slip test instrument) brings accountability to the process and provides certified results to assist in your defense should anyone claim a slip on your flooring. The University of Southern California Medical Center and the Ceramic Tile Institute of America (CTIOA) endorse our tribometers.
You need a reliable, well-qualified and responsible company for this important work. Sotter Engineering Corporation was founded in 1987 and incorporated in 1991. We are certified by the City of Los Angeles to test slip resistance of floors. Our monitoring reports are signed and stamped by a California-licensed Professional Engineer.
Periodic slip-resistance monitoring of your floors by Sotter Engineering Corporation can significantly reduce the risk of slip-related injuries for everyone, while at the same time providing peace of mind and protection from frivolous or fraudulent claims based on an allegedly slippery floor.
• Help prevent slipping accidents
• Provide quality control on the slip resistance that results from your floor maintenance
• Detect unseen slippery deposits resulting from tracked-in grease from parking areas or airborne grease from cooking; airborne construction dust; or wax particles from burnishing
• Detect maintenance problems before they become serious
• Provide documentation of your due diligence
• Test remediation methods for your floor maintenance personnel to implement
• Discourage plaintiff attorneys who suspect you were negligent
• Provide quality control on the slip resistance that results from your floor maintenance
• Detect unseen slippery deposits resulting from tracked-in grease from parking areas or airborne grease from cooking; airborne construction dust; or wax particles from burnishing
• Detect maintenance problems before they become serious
• Provide documentation of your due diligence
• Test remediation methods for your floor maintenance personnel to implement
• Discourage plaintiff attorneys who suspect you were negligent
Our floor slip-resistance testing can be both dry and wet where appropriate. Many floors are perfectly safe when clean and dry although they are slippery when wet. If a floor is dry more than 98 percent of the time it is in use, dry testing alone may be adequate. If a floor or footwear are likely to be wet in use from tracked-in rain and snow, dripping umbrellas or raincoats, swimming pool water, etc., both dry and wet slip-resistance monitoring are called for.
A dry floor may be perfectly safe, but that won’t stop pedestrians from suing for a fall that may have been caused not by your floor but by their footwear, impairment by alcohol or by legal or illegal drugs, by various medical conditions — or simply by the claimant’s creativity. Your due diligence defends you against charges of negligence, and that’s the key word in a lawsuit. Your floor slip test monitoring records can sometimes be the only defense you need to discourage frivolous or fraudulent lawsuits.
We can monitor the slip resistance of your floor with both hard and soft rubber test feet, representing dress shoes and athletic shoes (or bare feet) respectively.
Frequency of floor slip-resistance testing/monitoring. The appropriate frequency of monitoring depends on several factors. Many property owners specify quarterly monitoring because that’s a typical turnover period for floor maintenance personnel.
High-traffic areas need frequent monitoring because of the importance that wear and soiling can have on slip resistance. For low-traffic areas, annual monitoring may be sufficient. For any area, from a due diligence standpoint occasional monitoring is far better than none at all.
Data quality. Accurate data from a validated tribometer (floor slip test instrument) brings accountability to the process and provides certified results to assist in your defense should anyone claim a slip on your flooring. The University of Southern California Medical Center and the Ceramic Tile Institute of America (CTIOA) endorse our tribometers.
You need a reliable, well-qualified and responsible company for this important work. Sotter Engineering Corporation was founded in 1987 and incorporated in 1991. We are certified by the City of Los Angeles to test slip resistance of floors. Our monitoring reports are signed and stamped by a California-licensed Professional Engineer.
Periodic slip-resistance monitoring of your floors by Sotter Engineering Corporation can significantly reduce the risk of slip-related injuries for everyone, while at the same time providing peace of mind and protection from frivolous or fraudulent claims based on an allegedly slippery floor.
