Flooring
- The floor in a workplace must be suitable for the type of work activity that will be taking place on it.
- Where a floor can't be kept dry, people should be able to walk on the floor without fear of a slip despite any contamination that may be on it. So it should have sufficient roughness.
- The floor must be cleaned correctly to ensure that it does not become slippery or keeps its slip resistance properties (if a non slip floor)
- The floor must be fitted correctly
- to ensure that there are no trip hazards
- to ensure that non slip coatings are correctly applied
- The floor must be maintained in good order to ensure that there are no trip hazards e.g. holes, uneven surfaces, curled up carpet edges
- Ramps, raised platforms and other changes of level should be avoided, if they can’t they must be highlighted
- high visibility, non slip, square nosings on the step edges
- a suitable handrail
- steps of equal height
- steps of equal width
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