Episode Details

Today's Guest:

Continuing our Sliptember theme, I'm doing a deep dive into the 6 reasons why people slip, often referred to as CHIMES.

I go into depth about each risk factor, Contamination, Heel, Individual, Maintenance, Environment, and Surface, and explain how businesses can reduce their slips and falls risk.

I also explain the cost of slips and falls, why slips and falls are such a big problem, and how to know how well you're business is doing in each area of CHIMES.

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You'll learn:

• Why slips and falls are such a big problem.
• The cost of slips and falls.
• The reasons that people slip.
• How to reduce slip risk.
• How to know how well you are doing at CHIMES.

Resources:

• The Slip Prevention Scorecard
• CHIMES
• Fresh Check Spray
• The Pendulum Test
• HSE
• The Safety Roundtable
• Slip Safety Services

In this episode, we talk about:

[2:38] Why slips and falls are such a big problem.

[5:24] An overview of CHIMES and how to reduce slip risk.

[9:15] The difference between intentional and accidental contamination and the risk of invisible contamination.

[12:07] How to quantify how contaminated a surface is and at what point contamination becomes a slip risk.

[14:26] Different areas to consider in how footwear affects slip risk.

[17:20] The physiological and psychological human factors of slip risk.

[19:35] How effective yellow signs are at reducing slip risk.

[21:55] Different types of maintenance that can reduce slip risk

[24:14] The principles of what makes an effective cleaning regime.

[25:55] The four key areas of environmental slip risk.

[31:36] How to know how safe a surface is.

[40:45] How to know how well you are doing at CHIMES.

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Quotables:

• 10:45 - "Death and taxes might be inevitable, slips are not."

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