Kitchen related accidents

• Council reduces slip accidents amongst catering staff
• Restaurant trips up after ignoring housekeeping advice
• Chef slips and suffers severe arm burns from hot oil
• Risk of slips reduced in school canteen
• Supermarket fined after worker slipped in hot oil
• Pub-restaurant chain’s choice of kitchen floor surface
• Holed walkway went un-repaired for months before injuring a health service worker
• Fractured skull from a “wholly preventable” catering slip
• Fast food restaurant owners ponder “Which are the right slip prevention options for us?”
• Fast food employee flash fries her arm in 360°F oil following slip
• Serious burn injuries lead to serious fine for fast food restaurant!

Contamination and spillages

• College lecturer hurt in fall on wet ramp (added May 09)
• Two slip accidents in two days led to a court fine for a food factory
• Supermarket fined after worker slipped in hot oil
• Serious burn injuries lead to serious fine for fast food restaurant
• Fractured skull from a “wholly preventable” catering slip
• 16yr old employee flash fries arm in 360° F oil following slip
• Supermarket prosecution for leaking chiller cabinet
• Tackling slips in a further education establishment
• Wet deposits left by mechanical floor scrubber-dryer
• Containing spillages at a manufacturing bakery
• Oily floors in engineering workshop
• Slipping on dust in machinery workshop
• Slip risks on a supermarket's smooth floor - sensible long and short-term action
• Ice not a problem for Prison

Housekeeping and cleaning regimes

• Hospital improves floor cleaning after a slip
• Wrong cleaning product causes mayhem!
• Furniture company fined over its slippery floors
• Trip risk warnings ignored!
• Company changes cleaning methods following accident investigation
• Wet mopping can increase the risk of slipping
• New floor required a different cleaning regime - but did anyone tell the cleaners?
• Carpet company fails to maintain their own carpets!
• Poor housekeeping causes trip accident
• Why more shopping centre slips in the middle of the day?
• Logical approach cuts slips & trips by two thirds at food processor
• Improving cleaning at a manufacturing bakery

Effective matting systems

• Matting still wet when shopping centre opened to the public
• Slippery store entrance in wet weather - supermarket entrance matting

Choice of suitable footwear

• Oil company protects ankles and guards against slips
• Pet food company reduces slip accidents after introducing new footwear
• Logical approach cuts slips & trips by two thirds at food processor
• Temporary staff miss out on anti slip footwear
• Footwear choices at a manufacturing bakery
• Slippers cut falls by 60%
• Slip risks on a supermarket's smooth floor - sensible long and short-term action

Design of workplace and work activities

• Supermarket fined after worker slipped in hot oil
• Japanese 5S management system
• Walkway level changes hard to spot
• Airport carries out a wide-ranging review of pedestrian slip risks
• Anti slip walkways reduce slip risks in large food factory
• Raised plinths cause trips at electrical retailer
• Ice build up in cold store costs time and money - frozen food factory
• An error in pedestrian flow management
• Tomato sauce story
• Designing safety into buildings

Maintenance of plant and the work environment

• Council fined over fatal fall in bowling club pavillion (added May 09)
• Caution ! Wet paint
• Trip risk warnings ignored!
• Holed walkway went un-repaired for months before injuring a health service worker
• Leaking machinery causes persistent pool of water in commercial kitchen
• Worn out stairs carpet causes serious fall - yet still goes un-repaired
• Ice not a problem for Prison

Specification of appropriate flooring

• Company prosecuted after driver breaks his ankle after slipping near a diesel  pump (added May 09)
• Caution ! Wet paint
• Fractured skull from a “wholly preventable” catering slip
• Pub-restaurant chain's choice of kitchen floor surface
• Ramped walkways at railway station
• Poor floor specification threatened opening of museum
• Poor application of anti slip flooring causes a string of slipping accidents
• A worker was injured when he slipped onto a woodworking machine
• College fits the right floor surfaces in the right places
• Designing safety into buildings
• Fast food restaurant owners ponder options
• Slipping on dust in machinery workshop

Effective training and supervision

• Changing attitudes to tackling slip & trip risks
• Inadequate training leads to serious slip accident

Working together to solve the problem

• Logical approach cuts slips & trips by two thirds at food processor
• Japanese 5S management system
• Management, workers and equipment suppliers collaborate on tackling slips
• Local authority engages community and dramatically reduces trips

Human cost

• £55,000 for teacher who slipped on a chip
• Young woman loses leg after two slip accidents
• Slip accident almost ends top athletes season
• Costly supermarket slips
• Mower removes slip victim's toes