From the course: Occupational Safety and Health: Slips, Trips, and Falls
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PPE and personal behavior
From the course: Occupational Safety and Health: Slips, Trips, and Falls
PPE and personal behavior
- So far as I've talked about walking and working surfaces and the things that we can do to mitigate the chances that they become slip hazards, I've mostly focused on correcting or maintaining just one aspect of the hazard and that's the surface itself. But really, controlling slipping hazards is a matter of maintaining some friction as we walk over a surface. The walkway itself is one surface, but your shoes or your boots are the other surface. A surface that provides plenty of traction when you're wearing proper footwear can still be very slippery if you're wearing worn out shoes or boots with worn down slippery soles. Ladder rungs that are textured to prevent slipping can still be slippery with flat shoes that have no treads. And I already discussed the need to wear proper work shoes or boots in the snow. I bring this up here because I see this issue on work sites sometimes and I've seen it contribute to slip and fall…
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