Generalizability of Footwear Traction Performance across Flooring and Contaminant Conditions

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• Alternative Title:
  IISE Trans Occup Ergon Hum Factors
• Personal Author:
  Chanda, Arnab ; Jones, Taylor G. ; Beschorner, Kurt E.
• 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.
  
  
• Keywords:
  Coefficient Of Friction Footwear Quarry Slip Traction Vinyl
• Source:
  IISE Trans Occup Ergon Hum Factors. 6(2):98-108
• Pubmed ID:
  31742241
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6860024
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 OH010940/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01OH010940/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; R44 AG059258/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  6
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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