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Guyzy1982  
#1 Posted : 21 October 2015 08:55:12(UTC)
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Guyzy1982

I work in quite a challenging work environment where the persons in here like to push the boundaries and report 'alleged' accidents as often as possible. One of my main accidents is that persons allege that they slip in the shower area; no one witnesses these events (apart from their friends of course) and they usually lead to small claims. I am after some assistance as to what should be put in a shower area to prevent people slipping (if possible). We do have blue shower mats (my opinion they are more slippy when wet anyway), but over the course of the day these get removed, all floors are coated in an 'anti slip' substance and signs are displayed outside of the shower area to funny enough tell people to beware of water being present in a shower area. I am wondering what we can do to prevent slips (not confident they do occur)? Any advice would be great.
RayRapp  
#2 Posted : 21 October 2015 09:25:57(UTC)
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RayRapp

Preventing slips, trips and falls in any environment is very challenging. Trying to prevent them in showers is nigh on impossible i.e. water, soap, etc. I think it might be more beneficial to tackle the 'culture' you have described, which may be the real issue.
Invictus  
#3 Posted : 21 October 2015 09:29:11(UTC)
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Invictus

The mind boggles that you need to inform people that showers might be slippy. However I worked in a prison for a number of years so know the amount of claims you can get, we put up notices informing all that it might be slippy, had a good regime of cleaning, bought the mats they have in the baths the raised ones. Once we had this in place the claims stopped, as it was felt we were doing enough.
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