Preventing Wet Floors

A wet floor is often difficult to detect, and its slippery surface can cause unexpected tumbles and falls. These falls can result in serious injuries and liability expenses for the floor’s owner. Wet floor safety is essential to maintaining a safe walking area.

Avoid wet floors by cleaning up all liquids on floors, including the smallest leaks and spills. Clearly mark all wet floors with standard “Caution: Wet floor” signs. Keep floors well-lit to help expose damp floors to passersby. At home, install mats and rugs in rooms such as the kitchen and bathroom that are most likely to have wet floors from time to time. Elderly people may benefit from grip bars and wearing nonslip slippers or shoes.

There are many types of wet floor signs, many of which go unnoticed for days. A wet floor sign should stand out and alert people of the hazardous areas. A wet floor cone shaped like a banana will better PREVENT slipping on wet floors.

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Wet Floor Safety Statistics

Slip/fall injuries are nearly equally divided between men and women. However, more women will experience a slip-and-fall accident. Fractures are the most serious consequences of falls and occur in 5% of all people who fall. Each year in the United States, one of every three persons over the age of 65 will experience a fall and over 60% of nursing homes residents will fall each year. Not all of these falls are due to a wet floor though, but the company can still be held liable if their work conditions aren’t properly.

For more information, please refer to the National Floor Safety Institute

The most effective Wet Floor Sign

Wet Floor Signs shaped like Banana Peels

Banana Products LLC is home to the Banana Peel Caution Wet Floor Sign.
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Description

Whether your a school, grocery store, hospital, or corporate building, yellow caution signs are mandatory. Without them, your business is exposed to millions of dollars of liability. Made with Polypropylene plastic injection molding, the stackable multilangual banana cone is not only an appealing alternative but more affective through the world wide notion that banana peels are considered slippery.

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