SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip Floor Coating is a polysiloxane with aluminum oxide grit. This means that it is very likely the toughest and most durable floor coating you’re able to purchase these days. It’ll last for years and years and years, even with heavy foot traffic, forklift traffic, airplane traffic, and anything else you can imagine. It … Continue reading “Removing SparkleTuff Anti-Slip Floor Coating from your Floor”
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The United States Access Board (ADA) is clearly complicit in the American slip and fall epidemic
Below is a letter Vice President John C Sotter composed to the Access Board on January 17th of 2025: “Hello Access Board, This page https://www.access-board.gov/ada/vehicles/appendix-advisory-guidance/ discussing what makes a floor slip resistant discusses values from test standards that have long been withdrawn and no longer exist, and that makes the ADA and Access Board clearly … Continue reading “The United States Access Board (ADA) is clearly complicit in the American slip and fall epidemic”
ASTM D2047 – an unreliable, irrelevant and worthless “floor safety” scam
ASTM D2047 was first published by the ASTM in 1953 using the James Machine to assess the “safety” of Floor Wax and Floor Polish. It was never intended to be used to assess the safety of floors, but because about 99% of floor waxes back in the 1950’s “passed” this nonsensical “test” with greater than … Continue reading “ASTM D2047 – an unreliable, irrelevant and worthless “floor safety” scam”
Never, ever, EVER use the BOT-3000E and ANSI A326.3 to assess the slip resistance of a pool deck!!
Las Vegas is home to many pool decks, and far too often I have been called out to the “City of Sin” to test a pool deck that has caused slips and led to serious injuries to innocent vacationers. The pendulum dynamic coefficient of friction (DCOF) tester has been in use in over 50 nations … Continue reading “Never, ever, EVER use the BOT-3000E and ANSI A326.3 to assess the slip resistance of a pool deck!!”
Renting a Pendulum Floor Slip Tester: A VERY BAD IDEA!!
At Safety Direct America, we have been experts in pendulum floor slip resistance testing for well over two decades. We calibrate pendulum slip resistance testers for companies and government agencies around the world, and we made most of the updates to the latest version of the American test method for use of the pendulum dynamic … Continue reading “Renting a Pendulum Floor Slip Tester: A VERY BAD IDEA!!”
What We Do Here At Safety Direct America – Help People Avoid Slip and Fall Accidents
Vice President John C Sotter recently sat down with multi-generational long-time Mission Viejo Realtor Devin T Doherty to discuss what Safety Direct America’s been up to for the past 25 years, and what sort of products and services we offer to help commercial, industrial, and residential properties avoid costly and life-changing slip and fall accidents. … Continue reading “What We Do Here At Safety Direct America – Help People Avoid Slip and Fall Accidents”
View English XL and Mark IIIB Floor Friction Data with Suspicion
A recent paper published by Siegmund et al. called “Quantifying the uncertainty in tribometer measurements on walkway surfaces” states that data from the English XL and Brungraber Slip-Test Mark IIIB are “less accurate than they appear.” This is in part because the user is “a key component to the system,” influencing the numerical outcome of … Continue reading “View English XL and Mark IIIB Floor Friction Data with Suspicion”
Polished Floors Are Slippery When Wet – No Matter What Your American-Made Slip Resistance Test Device Says!
Reliable floor slip resistance test devices include the pendulum floor slip resistance tester and the SlipAlert Tribometer (now known as the iAlert), which both measure the dynamic coefficient of friction (DCOF) of floors. In the United States of America, we have in the past (and present) allowed tile manufacturers and people who make their living … Continue reading “Polished Floors Are Slippery When Wet – No Matter What Your American-Made Slip Resistance Test Device Says!”
Myth Busted: More Grout Lines Does Not Make a Floor More Slip Resistant
There’s a myth that tile manufacturers (especially manufacturers that sell tiny tiles) want you to believe, but it’s just a myth. There’s no science or proof behind the statement that more grout lines makes a floor safer. More grout lines doesn’t actually add any slip resistance to a floor with tiny slippery tiles on it, … Continue reading “Myth Busted: More Grout Lines Does Not Make a Floor More Slip Resistant”
New Australian Study Shows Sotter Engineering (Safety Direct America) is World’s Top Pendulum Floor Slip Resistance Testing Laboratory
A few years ago Sotter Engineering Corporation’s Safety Direct America (SDA) floor slip resistance testing laboratory participated in a global interlaboratory program that showed SDA to be one of the world’s three most accurate labs in use of the pendulum floor slip resistance tester. The pendulum is a national standard for pedestrian floor and tile … Continue reading “New Australian Study Shows Sotter Engineering (Safety Direct America) is World’s Top Pendulum Floor Slip Resistance Testing Laboratory”