SATRA publishes slip resistance guide

SATRA has published a Slip Resistance Guide. The guide will be useful for everyone in the supply chain concerned with safety, protective and occupational footwear supplied into the European market.

The SATRA Slip Resistance Guide contains user-friendly information on footwear and floorings considerations, risk assessment, factors influencing slip risk, legislative requirements for occupational footwear, slip-resistant footwear design, and considerations for the buyer.

A PDF copy of the guide can be downloaded from SATRA's PPE survival guide website which was recently launched in Shanghai -

http://www.satrappeguide.com/safety_footwear.php

Thirty years ago SATRA designed and built the first prototype laboratory-based slip testing rig. The technology centre also developed SATRA test method TM144 for the machine's operation. Since the work on the original prototype, the machine and test method have been the subject of continuous improvement. In 2004, the European standard EN 13287 for slip resistance of safety footwear was published and ISO adopted this method. The introduction of the standard meant that the test parameters changed.

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