I went to a talk by Stephen Taylor on Slips Trips and Falls for Institute of
Occupational Health and Safety last tuesday . He works at the HSE laboratory
and is behind the document and assessment website. He can be contacted
directly by e-mail (HSE laboratory website) and is always willing to talk
(he helped a student on an acccess course once by providing info ) Although
he favours the pendulum method as being very reliable there is a gadgety
looking surface microroughness meter (see pix) which he used to measure a
lot of the surfaces slip resistance around Kings College where the talk was.
For example he measured 2microns for the loo floor, where if wet, it should
be 10microns. And , as he is a funny speaker, he said" When I go to court
with it, people say "Why has he brought his game boy?". It would be the sort
of tool that can be used for access auditing. About £180 I think. During the
talk (mostly photos), Stephen showed a lot of stairs and raised surfaces
which were totally inacessible, and that was for everyone. I put the
following question to him, as I had heard that talk 2 years before. "Do you
think Part M and the DDA will lead to a reduction of the number of potential
trip hazards such as the ones you have shown?" "Not a chance, DDA no one
bothers it's legislation. But people take notice of building regs. Part K ,
being revised at the mo, will have an impact". I am looking at investigating
the theme of what sort of flooring, assessment and management issues are
best for accessibility for a thesis soon (ideas in the process of being
refined or rejected Marcus). What I thought quite worrying were examples of
tiles he showed as being "slip resistant" and the ordinary one was 2microns,
the slip resistant one with patterns ...2.1microns!! Far from 5-10microns.
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Subject: [ACCESSIBUILT] Slip resistance
Hi all
I wondered if any of you had used the software, and or equipment suggested
in this HSE information on slip resistance.
http://146.101.202.138/
It potentially looks as though it could be useful in access auditing
situations but would like to get some views before investing in what appears
to be quite expensive equipment needed to do the tests.
Regards
Marcus
Marcus Ormerod
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