Episode Details

Today's Guest:

This time for Sliptember, I'm investigating the problems with bundling slips, trips, and falls together, exploring why it's dangerous and why it needs to stop.

I go into depth about why we categorize slips, trips, and falls together even though they're greatly different risks, and explain what we can do to overcome this issue.

I also talk about the difference between slips and trips in insurance claims costs, and what we can do to separate these problems and reduce the risk of each accordingly.

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You'll learn:

• The problem with bundling slips, trips, and falls together.
• The difference between slips and trips in insurance claims costs.
• How to reduce trip risks.
• How to reduce slip risks.
• What we can do to stop combining slips, trips, and falls together.

Resources:

• IOSH Magazine
• RoSPA
• The Pendulum Test
• CHIMES - the six causes of slips and what you can do about them
• The Slip Prevention Scorecard
• The Safety Roundtable
• Slip Safety Services

In this episode, we talk about:

[2:27] The issue of bundling together different types of accidents.

[6:55] The different organisations that bundle slips, trips, and falls together.

[10:12] The problem with combining slips, trips, and falls together.

[13:56] The difference between slips and trips in insurance claims costs.

[16:44] How to reduce trip risks.

[18:37] How to reduce slip risks.

[27:16] The challenges of splitting up slips, trips, and falls.

[31:16] How to get more data from insurance companies.

[34:11] How to control hazards in washrooms, bathrooms, and toilets.

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Quotables:

• 15:14 - "We've got to stop allowing slips, trips, and falls to be grouped together because they're not the same thing and if you've got a problem with people slipping and you start to come in and think this is very straightfo