An investigation of surface slip resistance on structural steel

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• Personal Author:
  English W ; Marletta W
• Description:
  The purposes of this study were to confirm that: 1) Painted surfaces can be made slip-resistant. 2) Slip resistance can be measured with state-of-the-art slipmeters. 3) A reasonable threshold of safety can be established. 4) Empirical field evaluations by ironworkers would validate the demonstrated measurement methodology. The ironworkers were to participate in establishment of the safety threshold. That is, the consultants would demonstrate that they can quantify the slipperiness of steel structural forms using instruments and the ironworkers would tell them whether the meter indications accurately reflected their perceptions. The ironworkers would also determine what degree of slip-resistance they regarded as reasonably safe for them to walk on under wet conditions at elevation. This was not an effort to study the slip-resistance performance of any particular paint, but was to show the feasibility of achieving and measuring compliance with a specified threshold of safe slip resistance. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Construction Materials Ferrous Compounds Metal Workers Occupational Health Paint Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-materials Construction-workers Equipment-design Industrial-design Injury-prevention Iron-workers Iron-working-industry Paints Safety-engineering Safety-measures Steelworkers Surface-properties Walking-surfaces

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• Publisher:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Florida ; Maryland ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-16
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039850
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 1995 Oct; :1-16
• Contact Point Address:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, Suite 1000, 8484 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910
• CAS Registry Number:
  Iron (CAS RN 7439-89-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19940930
• Source Full Name:
  An Investigation of Surface Slip Resistance on Structural Steel
• End Date:
  20000331
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2acd17cf8b8fc301200e22b5aeec55d8912b603fe5a32a908ecfed0c9371323ab75a57a2d1d4508777b8779dda5b6cb90fdffc9f43bcec3bc6c39b7a7ff52bec
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192919/cdc_192919_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.77 MB ]