TRUSTY-STEP NO.1001 ANTI-SLIP TREATMENT FOR FLOORS AND BATHTUBS
Slip and fall accidents are second only to car accidents in accidental death. Trusty-Step No.1001 application can reduce those numbers.
The home itself offers many types of slip and fall hazards. Probably the number one concern in the home is the bathroom. Many bathrooms have ceramic tile floors or even marble, granite, or travertine tile floors. These floors are beautiful to look at and much easier to keep clean but they create a slippery situation when they get wet.
Porcelain bathtubs can be treated to make them slip resistant and there will be no visible difference in the bathtub.
The bathtub can be a hazard where thousands of accidents have happened.
The best solution, the best objective, is to provide a superior COF and maximize these characteristics for industrial, commercial, and residential needs.
- Over 540,000 slip and fall injuries, requiring hospital care, occur in North America each year.
- Slip and falls account for over 300,000 disabling injuries per year in North America.
- One in three serious bone breaks for seniors result in death, within one year of the accident.
- Slip and falls account for over 20,000 fatalities per year in North America – i.e. 55 persons per day.
- It is the second leading cause of accidental death and disability after automobile accidents.
- Slips and falls kill more workers than all other combined forms of workplace accidents.
- Slip and falls are the number one cause of accidents in Hotels, Restaurants and Public Buildings; 70% occur on flat and level surfaces.
- Slips and falls are the leading cause of death in the workplace and the source of more than 57% of all disabling injuries.
- Slip and fall accidents account for 30% of all reported injuries.
- Two out of three fall deaths occur in the home and our elderly are primary victims. 66% of injury cases for people 65 years or older were a result of a fall and over 75% of slip and fall deaths occur to people 65 years of age or older.
- 55% of persons over 40 years have sustained at least one debilitating injury, due to a slip and fall incident.
- There are estimated to be 8 million slip and fall accidents per year in North America. Falls make up nearly half of ALL home accidents.
- There are estimated to be 104 million lost workdays per year – i.e. 65% of all lost man-hours. That’s over 4000 lifetimes.
- There are social burdens related to this problem, including Worker’s Compensation claims over $1.8 Billion per year – i.e. 40% of all accident claims paid out. Worker’s Compensation and Liability Insurance Rates are increasing on the average of 30% per year.
Statistic Sources:National Safety Council, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), ADA, Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Workers Compensation Board, CMHC, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM), Canadian Injury Prevention Foundation, Health Canada, B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit, Smart Risk, International Sanitary Supply Assoc. (ISSA).
The focus should be on prevention, not compensation.
