Frictional Response of Multiple Slip-Resistant Flat and Beveled Shoes to Normal Loading

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• Personal Author:
  Beschorner KE ; Moghaddam SRM
• Description:
  Findings of this study can be applied to simulate the effect of a person's weight on slip-resistance performance. These findings suggest that while certain (beveled) shoes might have superior slip-resistance in lower normal loads, their performance might decay when a heavier person wears those and suggest that slip-resistance performance of flat shoes is less sensitive to a person's weight. Although it is acknowledged that the range of the normal load that was used for this analysis might not fully represent the body weight of obese people, findings indicate a decrease in COF with increasing normal load, a phenomenon that could be partially responsible for the higher risk of falls in the overweight population. It should be noted that overweight human subjects are reported to have a higher RCOFs in comparison to the non-obese subjects. Therefore, the combination of reduction in COF (observed in the models) and the higher RCOF in overweight people (reported in the literature) is likely to explain the higher chance of slips and falls in overweight people given that the difference between the available COF and RCOF predicts the probability of slips and falls. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Accidents, Occupational Body Weight Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Potential Body Weight Equipment Design Footwear Slips, Trips, And Falls STF
• Publisher:
  American Society of Biomechanics
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063141
• Citation:
  ASB2018: Proceedings of the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting, August 8-11, 2018, Rochester, Minnesota. Newark, DE: American Society of Biomechanics, 2018 Aug; :1328-1329
• Email:
  sem162@pitt.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing ; Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Performing Organization:
  University of Pittsburgh
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20150930
• Source Full Name:
  ASB2018: Proceedings of the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting, August 8-11, 2018, Rochester, Minnesota
• End Date:
  20190929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:41c4d26947f1b118affb586ff416929d72d6d3016f888523476faf18de1cf83365d9b12e8d3e80c6f225c7417de8e681dbf81a16f173274bb69319d66b1c53f9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226259/cdc_226259_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 688.51 KB ]