Safety
underfoot for undergraduates
Several hundred specially sized Heronrib modules have recently solved a flooring problem at the University of Manchester.
PHS
There are few occasions when you want your customers to walk all over you, but in some cases it can be a clever way of raising your business profile. That’s exactly what PHS Treadsmart wants to encourage with the new circular and rubber additions to its range of logo mats.
Treadsmart extends its range of logo mats to include Circular and Sculpted Logo Mats
PHS Treadsmart, the UK’s leading serviced mat provider, has introduced 3 great new ideas to get company logos, brands and sales messages, quite literally, laid at the feet of prospective customers.
Circular Logo Mats allow a round logo to be placed in the middle of a foyer, for example, creating a greater impact than standard matting alone. For exterior use, Treadsmart’s new Designer Rubber Logo Mats & unique 3D Sculpted Rubber Mats offer a perfect solution for the unpredictable British climate! These brightly coloured mats are bound to send passers-by in your direction. Billy Allan, PHS Treadsmart’s Sales Director comments “These new logo mats offer great new opportunities for customers to promote their brands and keep floors clean.”
For further information on the PHS Treadsmart range of mats, call 029 2080 9090 or visit
www.phstreadsmart.co.uk
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Due of the risk of students slipping in the showers, the University needed to find a safe solution. Specialist matting manufacturer Plastic Extruders Ltd was approached and their suggestion to install Heronrib was adopted as the perfect answer following a previous solution for a similar concern at the University of Sussex.
Not only does the matting provide a safe and anti-slip surface but the matting is very hardwearing yet comfortable to stand on. Importantly, the anti-bacterial and anti- fungal sanitized additives ensure it is hygienic for bare feet and reduce the risk of cross-contamination.
Heronrib is normally supplied in 10m roll format but for this project Plastex manufactured individual and correctly sized modules which could be quickly installed in the showers with the minimum of disruption.
Heronrib is available in several colours and in widths of 50cm, 1m and 1.22m. Samples, information and performance certificates are available from Plastic Extruders Ltd. Tel: 01268 571116 or visit
www.heronrib.com
Photoluminescent matting shows the way
Photoluminescent Floorline is a specially designed type of matting designed to provide an effective escape route guidance system that requires no illumination or maintenance. It is manufactured by Plastic Extruders with an integral photoluminescent compound. The photoluminescent strip only requires normal ambient lighting to energise so that if the emergency lighting
fails or, in a more serious fire, smoke obscures the lights, the guidance strip will immediately illuminate to show people the route to safety.
Floorline is a flexible open grid slip resistant matting which is impervious to liquids, acids and spillages which are simply dissipated and thereby increase safety underfoot. The soft tubular grid construction is particularly suitable where hard wearing performance combined with cushioned comfort underfoot is required. It also insulates against cold and hard floors. The matting is available in Back or Red in 10m long rolls in widths of 60 and 91cm. The black is stocked by photoluminescent safety products supplier Jalite PLC.
Floorline is one of several mattings
manufactured by Plastic Extruders for a variety of safety, industrial and commercial uses. Samples and literature are available from Tel: 01268 571116 or visit
www.plastexmatting.com Building & Facilities Management – September 2010
Health & Safety
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