How to Create a Safer Floor Care Program

Key Takeaways:
• Prioritizing floor safety protocols mitigates high-risk slip, trip, and fall hazards.
• Leveraging innovative floor equipment boosts facility productivity while simultaneously lowering liability and operational risks.
• Implementing a strategic matting program traps heavy debris at building entrances to drastically cut commercial floor maintenance costs.

Floor care can save lives. As slips, trips, and falls remain the top workplace hazard—contributing to 27 percent of on-site injuries and over 1 million emergency room visits annually—floor safety remains essential for environmental health and safety. Safeguarding staff while improving floor maintenance aligns with current industry trends. In fact, a CleanLink poll found that 67 percent of commercial cleaning respondents believe floor equipment has the greatest potential for innovation—increasing productivity and reducing slip-and-fall risks.

Facility cleaning managers can dissect how to keep floor safety an operational standard by reviewing the following floor care elements.

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Taylor Vraney is the Assistant Editor working on Facility Cleaning Decisions, Sanitary Maintenance, and Contracting Profits magazines. She's also very active in contributing to CleanLink.com. Prior to her time in media, Taylor served as a Special Education teacher, which gives her a strong perspective on custodial operations and its role in creating healthy environments for building occupants.
Taylor currently oversees Sanitary Maintenance's Sales Leaders Award program, which gave her a quick introduction to some of the many outstanding personalities that make up this great industry. At industry events, Taylor got first-hand experience with products and equipment, and even recorded the experience to demonstrate what frontline workers experience on the daily.
Taylor handles the collection of content for the Cleaning Insider newsletter and facilitates CleanLink's monthly polling questions.
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