Health and Safety Mats

Safety mats are designed to reduce your exposure to slips and trips, whether in the work place or public areas, claims are often expensive both in terms of payouts and lost time, not to mention the trauma imposed on the individual involved. The reports published by the HSE and also USA Today typify the scale of problems related to slips and trips which can be greatly reduced by a small investment in health and safety mats.

Slips and Trips

Slips and trips are the most common of workplace hazards and make up over a third of all major injuries. Over 10,000 workers suffered serious injury because of a slip or trip last year. (www.hse.gov.uk)

Slips, trips & falls on the level accounted for 698,336 bed days in 2002/03 within the UK work place (www.hse.gov.uk)

Retail mats

Wal-Mart stores in the USA receive 100 million visitors per week, Wal-Mart gets sued once every two hours, every day of the year, many of the suits are slip related (USA Today).

In the Mat Creations safety mats range we have a variety of products designed to address a number of health and safety concerns in various public and commercial / industrial locations, from wet area matting suitable for use by swimming pools and in changing areas - MC SafetyWave, through to our durable and comfortable top of the range anti-slip / anti-fatigue / anti-microbial MC OrthoMats there are no finer anti-fatigue mats, ideal behind busy bars in pubs and clubs. We do however realise such high quality comes at a price and so also offer MC CushionMat as a more economical alternative, hard wearing and durable the MC CushionMat offers good anti-fatigue and slip protection, perfect for use at industrial work stations.

MC KitchenMats have excellent anti-fatigue and anti-slip properties, combined with anti-microbial additives making these health and safety mats ideal for use at busy kitchen work stations, reducing the risk of slipping and general employee fatigue, whilst also protecting the floor beneath from excessive and sustained wear.

For general areas where slips caused by water contaminants are possible why not consider either MC BossMat or MC CleatMat both make good containment mats used under water coolers and drinks machines. Alternatively placed outside the entrance they can begin scraping dirt and water from beneath the shoe prior to stepping onto either of the MC ProMats. The combination of the two safety mats will take you a long way to ensuring a safe environment for both your staff and visitors.