Workplace Safety Report: Hazard of Slippery Floors and Risk Management

This report addresses the significant workplace hazard of slippery floors, which frequently lead to slips and falls causing injuries. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing this risk and implementing effective management strategies. The report explores the causes of slips, trips, and falls, including a lack of safety awareness, unsafe conditions, and unsafe behaviors, while highlighting the need for floor contamination prevention. It details various preventative measures, such as constructing rough floor surfaces, ensuring proper cleaning to remove contaminants, eliminating obstacles, and promoting safe employee behaviors. The report also outlines a comprehensive risk management process that includes identifying risks, assessing them, and implementing control strategies. It emphasizes the need for monitoring, workplace design improvements, proper maintenance, employee training, and awareness programs. Finally, the report underlines the importance of first aid availability, record-keeping, and preventive measures. The report encourages lifestyle choices that promote safety, and the development of safety as a habit, promoting teamwork and awareness to prevent accidents and injuries in the workplace.

Recognition of hazard in work
place risk management of
hazard slippery floor

Introduction
Slips and fall have been the most common issue that causes injury
at work.
There have been many cases of injury due to wet floor and slips.
On an average, there have been 40% of all the major reported
injuries at workplace have been due to fall and slips over wet floor.
This have been creating major issues in the workplace over various
companies worldwide

Slips, trips and falls
 Slips, trips and falls
have been a common
issue that have been
frequently happening in
the many companies.
 These things can occur
during entering into the
office, kitchen, rooms,
loading heavy loads
and various other
places.

Causes of slips, falls and
trips
 A Lack of Safety Awareness
 Unsafe Conditions
 Unsafe Behaviors

Watch your step!
• Slips.
• Trips .
• Falls .

Reducing Slips, Trips and
Falls
 Contaminants
 prevention from floor
contamination have been
one of the best strategies to
prevent or minimize falls.
Slips and trips at workplace

Preventing Slips
Floor surfaces: A wet floor causes slips
and falls at workplace. Therefore, the
rough surfaces of the floor need to be
constructed that increases slip resistance
ability.

Preventing Slips
Cleaning: There have been many traces of
contaminants over the floor.
This causes slips and fall of employees at
workplace.
Therefore, it needs to ensure that cleaning
of floor has been done every day properly
and contaminants are efficiently removed
from the floor.

Preventing Slips
Obstacles and trip hazards
These can be prevented by proper
housekeeping services at workplace,
ensuring smooth floor surfaces and
adequate storage facilities.

Preventing Trips
People and activity: workers need to
maintain their balance during rush hours
at workplace for minimizing slips and falls.
Individuals need to consider their physical
attributes including balance, agility and
vision.

Preventing Trips
Footwear: employees need to use a quality
footwear with proper friction on the
ground.
Footwear design and quality need to be
suitable with the workplace. There have
been need of comfortable footwear with
an adequate slip resistance feature.

Risk management
Identification of risks
The step of the risk management process is
identifying the probable risks in the
workplace where slips and fall might occur.
This can be done by collection information
and feedbacks from workers and
employees at workplace.
Identification of risks help in creating an
idea of minimizing these risks in the
workplace.