How Slip Testing and Routine Audits Keeps You Safe
There are common protocols frequently employed by businesses and facilities to maintain safety and cleanliness. This includes specific cleaning standards and inspections to avoid any slip, trip, and fall incidents. While those protocols are necessary to maintain a safe environment, there is more that businesses and facilities can do. If a facility is more prone to hazards or injuries, such as commercial kitchens, grocery stores, warehouses, nursing homes, and hospitals, specific attention should be paid [...]
How Precipitation Poses a Hazard to Pedestrians and Pavement: Dangers of Freeze/Thaw Cycle
We have a lot to worry about during the snow season. Proper salt application and snow plowing should be any business owner and snow contractor’s number one priority, but how many times after a snow season have you noticed new cracks and depression in your pavement? Maintaining walkways safe is a business owner’s and property manager’s responsibility, as is repairing pavement, but without understanding why this pavement failing happens, shoveling out the cost for repairs [...]
How Long is Too Long: Unattended Spills and Customer Risks
Any public establishment is at risk of spills, but importance lies in how the employees rectify those spills. Retail establishments, like common-name department or big box stores, can experience hundreds to thousands of customers daily. These customers may bring in their own beverages or knock over sealed products. Grocery stores selling fresh produce and liquid products pose a heightened risk of spills by customers dropping their items and either not realizing or not notifying an [...]
The ABCs of Adhesion Testing: Accurate, Bonding, Conclusive
Without proper preparation of a substrate or bonding materials, a floor is likely to fail. The application process and materials vary depending on resinous or resilient flooring, but the preparation process is equally important. Building owners, whether for a retail space, commercial warehouse, or more, will always face constant maintenance issues, and if flooring is one of them then we can help. Industry accepted equipment is used to determine the tensile strength and level of [...]
Safety Benefits of Drone Roof Inspections
Previously, we discussed the benefit of using drones for infrared inspections, but I would like to dive deeper into the specific types of inspections made possible through this aerial technology. Drones are extremely beneficial for inspecting roofs and buildings, solar fields, roads and bridges, agriculture, and electrical facilities, to name a few. Whether using an infrared camera or not, drones streamline these services down to a compact formula that saves time and money, while also [...]
Make Your Jury Forensic Analyzers: Using 3D Printing in Civil Lawsuits
Let’s face facts, when dealing with trip and fall lawsuits it’s not often jurors or judges will understand the importance of industry accepted standards of care. Trip and fall accidents are often the result of cracks in the pavement, changes of elevation in a sidewalk, or even defects in stairs. This can make portraying the physical facts of your argument difficult when all you have is a grainy, 2D image of the defect. Imagine all [...]