Generalizability of Footwear Traction Performance Across Flooring and Contaminant Conditions

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• Personal Author:
  Beschorner KE ; Chanda A ; Jones TG
• Description:
  Background: To prevent slip and fall events at the workplace, mechanical slip testing is conducted on shoes. Such experiments may involve redundant testing across floorings and contaminant conditions, causing wasted time and effort. Purpose: Quantify the correlations between shoe traction across different contaminant-flooring conditions to reduce redundant slip-testing efforts. Methods: The available coefficient-of-friction (ACOF) was quantified for 17 shoes across five floorings and three contaminant conditions. Redundant testing conditions were identified when the shoe ACOF values for one floor-contaminant condition were highly correlated with a second floor-contaminant condition. Results: High correlations were observed among quarry floorings across different contaminants and among vinyl (composite tile) floorings with the same contaminant. However, vinyl floorings exhibited low correlations with quarry floorings. Low correlations were also observed across contaminants within vinyl tiles. Conclusions: This study was able to determine the generalizability of traction performance of shoes across vinyl and quarry floorings. This information is anticipated to reduce redundant traction testing of shoes across vinyl and quarry floorings. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Slip Coefficient-of-friction Floors Foot Protection Footwear Quarry Slips, Trips, And Falls STF Traction Vinyl Walking Surfaces

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• ISSN:
  2472-5838
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  98-108
• Volume:
  6
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20061853
• Citation:
  IISE Trans Occup Ergon Hum Factors 2018 Apr; 6(2):98-108
• Contact Point Address:
  Kurt E. Beschorner, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Email:
  beschorn@pitt.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing ; Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Performing Organization:
  University of Pittsburgh
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20150930
• Source Full Name:
  IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors
• End Date:
  20190929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:703eb96e41a5428fe91b1871e74a7ae71539aa11d098ab114707a6d72269fb643cbce3b08d6c30cd30401c884d352d47ebb96b38215168be93d7e6e9a41612db
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225214/cdc_225214_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.02 MB ]