CHIMES - the six causes of slips and what you can do about them

Today's Guest:

Continuing our Sliptember theme, I'm doing a deep dive into the 6 reasons why people slip, often referred to as CHIMES.

I go into depth about each risk factor, Contamination, Heel, Individual, Maintenance, Environment, and Surface, and explain how businesses can reduce their slips and falls risk.

I also explain the cost of slips and falls, why slips and falls are such a big problem, and how to know how well you're business is doing in each area of CHIMES.

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You'll learn:

• Why slips and falls are such a big problem.
• The cost of slips and falls.
• The reasons that people slip.
• How to reduce slip risk.
• How to know how well you are doing at CHIMES.

Resources:

• The Slip Prevention Scorecard
• CHIMES
• Fresh Check Spray
• The Pendulum Test
• HSE
• The Safety Roundtable
• Slip Safety Services

In this episode, we talk about:

[2:38] Why slips and falls are such a big problem.

[5:24] An overview of CHIMES and how to reduce slip risk.

[9:15] The difference between intentional and accidental contamination and the risk of invisible contamination.

[12:07] How to quantify how contaminated a surface is and at what point contamination becomes a slip risk.

[14:26] Different areas to consider in how footwear affects slip risk.

[17:20] The physiological and psychological human factors of slip risk.

[19:35] How effective yellow signs are at reducing slip risk.

[21:55] Different types of maintenance that can reduce slip risk

[24:14] The principles of what makes an effective cleaning regime.

[25:55] The four key areas of environmental slip risk.

[31:36] How to know how safe a surface is.

[40:45] How to know how well you are doing at CHIMES.

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Quotables:

• 10:45 - "Death and taxes might be inevitable, slips are not."
• 38:52 - "Most people would think, they would assume that if someone legitimately hurts themselves if they definitely slipped and if the floor was wet then you're banged to rights and you're going to have to pay out the claim and that simply isn't true. Your obligation is not to prevent all accidents your obligation is to take reasonable and practicable steps."

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