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the Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals’ (ACHP) Lead for Education and Training, as we’re likeminded about developing and sharing best practice. One of the most simple but effective changes we’ve made was to develop pictorial cleaning guides to make it as easy as possible to know what method should be used for which floor.
So, for some specifiers, undoubtedly, concerns over cleaning and maintenance effort and cost are influencing their decisions on where to use safety flooring. For others, design and aesthetics may be a factor. Historically, there were restricted design choices for safety flooring – the institutional greys and blues of the 1980s and 90s, and of course the ‘tell-tale’ sparkle of the safety flooring aggregates. This has, in the past at least, been a major challenge when weighing up where and how to use safety flooring. Luckily, times have changed.
Improved cleanability has led to greater freedom for inclusion of a wider range of colours as seen in the far broader palettes and non-sparkle design options for safety flooring that we’ve seen in the past few years, including biophilic wood-look and natural stone safety floors. This wider choice has also made it much easier to meet requirements for slip resistance whilst also meeting the Equality Act (2010) requirements around contrast, including the flexibility to choose lighter colours of flooring (every material has a Light Resistance Value (LRV) with rules around the difference in value needed between adjacent surfaces to reduce uncertainty).
So, with cleanability of safety flooring vastly improved, and colour, contrast and design choices wider than ever, why are estates managers still facing a dilemma when it comes to where to specify safety flooring? The answer lies in how we clean. As a manufacturer, we continue to strive for new technologies and product developments to reduce the gap between the cleaning regimes for smooth and safety floors. As technologies evolve, we get closer than ever to that parity in cleaning regimes, which, when we get there, will truly remove the dilemmas estates managers face. Watch this space.
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