Indoor control measures can help reduce the incidence of slips and falls:

Look for soles that:

• Grip the ground firmly. Super-deep treads or patterns with a lot of voids can feel unstable.
• Have tunnels to channel water or oil away from the shoe.
• Have circular grips that help prevent hydroplaning better than square or triangular-shaped grips.

How to prevent falls due to slips and trips?

1. cleaning all spills immediately.
2. marking spills and wet areas.
3. mopping or sweeping debris from floors.
4. removing obstacles from walkways and always keeping walkways free of clutter.
5. securing (tacking, taping, etc.)
6. always closing file cabinet or storage drawers.

• Use moisture-absorbent mats with beveled edges in entrance areas.
• Display “Wet Floor” signs as needed.
• Use anti-skid adhesive tape in troublesome areas.
• Clean up spills immediately.
• Use proper area rugs or mats for food preparation areas.

The most common injuries from these types of accidents, unsurprisingly, are fractures and dislocated joints. These are most commonly to the ankle or wrist, but fractures to fingers are also common. Shoulder dislocation and knee injury can also commonly occur.

Trip Hazard. Definition: Hazard caused by an abrupt change in vertical elevation or horizontal separation on any walking.

Supplies, clutter and loose cords are two common tripping hazards in a shop environment. Tripping hazards refer to any sort of object that causes a person to slip, trip and fall. Loose cords refer to wires coming out from here and there that causes a person to trip over.

For a pavement accident claim to be successful, it has to meet certain criteria including the pavement trip hazard height of at least 1 inch (2.5 cm/25mm).

Among the simplest hazards that can cause serious injuries to workers and customers is a wet floor. Wet floors and other slippery surfaces are among the leading causes of accidents in stores and other properties. They can cause someone to slip and fall.

When flat surfaces get wet, they get slippery. Our floors get wet from leaking equipment (e.g. refrigerators, pipes), mopping, spilled drinks , and weather (snow/rain) tracked in from outside. It only takes a bit of moisture to turn a dry floor into a hazardous slippery floor.

Physical hazards include exposure to slips, trips, falls, electricity, noise, vibration, radiation, heat, cold and fire.

Identifying workplace hazards

• physical hazards – the most common workplace hazards, including vibration, noise and slips, trips and falls;
• ergonomic hazards – physical factors that harm the musculoskeletal system, such as repetitive movement, manual handling and poor body positioning;

A hazard is something that can cause harm, e.g. electricity, chemicals, working up a ladder, noise, a keyboard, a bully at work, stress, etc. For example, working alone away from your office can be a hazard. The risk of personal danger may be high. Electric cabling is a hazard.

 Hazards can be profiled in different ways; magnitude of event (high- scale or low-scale), frequency (number of times in a year), duration (short-term or long-term), and causality effects (direct or indirect).

• 1 Physical hazards. Physical hazards are those substances or conditions that threaten our physical safety.
• 2 Biological hazards.
• 3 Chemical hazards.
• 4 Cultural/practice-related hazards.
• 5 Social hazards.