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HEALTH & SAFETY


FROM THE FLOOR UP With an annual cost to employers of half a billion pounds, slips, trips and falls


are a huge managerial burden. FMs have a duty to consider these risks and warn clients of their importance, says Martin Bull, Director of CleanSafe Services.


A facilities manager said to me, only half-jokingly, that they needed to take more care of cleaning their floors, because most of their client’s customers spend all their time looking at them.


She was referring to the modern practice of walking along staring down at mobile phones. She had in mind that they should make sure their floors were clean, because that is pretty much the only thing these customers could judge their environment by.


Not a bad call. But that’s just part of the problem. The other big issue, of course, is the heightened risk of slips and trips caused by walking around with your head down, not seeing where you are going, and who you are just about to crash into.


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There is no doubt the practice increases slip and trip risks. The statistics are already eye-watering if not bone- jarring. There are around 20,000 slip, trip and fall RIDDOR incidents in the workplace every year with 95% of major slips resulting in broken bones.


The average cost of a slip claim is between £5,000 and £10,000 and 33% of personal injury claims by volume are for slips and trips. To top it off, over 50% of all workplace accidents that involve members of the public involve slips.


This all adds up to a huge managerial burden for both FMs and their clients. It also translates into a major cost. The annual cost to employers of slips and trips is £0.5bn. For the NHS, in terms of putting people back together it is £135m.


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