Most commercial building engineers and facility managers know how important quality, high-performance entry matting can be to the overall health and air quality of their buildings. But in order for matting to do its job effectively, it needs to be maintained!
Here's ten top tips to make your entry matting perform better and last even longer:
Unroll that mat ASAP! Mats that have just arrived have typically been rolled up for shipping, and (if it's fall or...
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When it comes to maintaining your walk-off entrance matting, most people underestimate how much cleaning they need to do and how much work their mats can do on their own. The easiest way to understand just why regular, routine cleaning is so essential is to look at your mats the way you'd look at a pail you took to the beach. You can dump sand into the pail, but once that pail is full the sand...
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Summertime is a great time for cleaning professionals and building managers to review their current cleaning regime. The summer months usually bring gentler weather and less foot traffic with people on summer vacation, giving building managers a chance to test out new cleaning techniques before the fall and winter wetness arrives. To help keep your commercial building - and its occupants - healthy, here's eight quick tips to make the job easier.
Keep your floors in...
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In addition to chemicals and equipment, matting is essential for preventing slips, trips and falls in commercial facilities.
A proper mat program should start at each entrance to the building, not just the front lobby. Mats placed there can dress up the lobby, but they will also help keep dirt, water and foreign debris from getting tracked into the facility. The more contaminants that get trapped at each outdoor entrance, the less risk there is for slip-and-fall...
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Tracked-in soil is the biggest threat to indoor air quality and building cleanliness. The best way to mitigate the destructive power of tracked-in soil is to trap it before it gets a chance to damage your floor by using high quality, well-maintained walk-off matting. That is why a good set of commercial-grade floor mats is absolutely crucial to a complete floor care program. Heavy duty entrance matting captures and stops soil and debris before they get...
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Did you know that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI) have combined their expertise to formally define safety regulations with respect to commercial entrance matting? To help make the regulations easier to meet, they have also developed standards to simplify processes for facility managers. This ANSI/NFSI B101.6-2012 “Standard Guide For Commercial Entrance Matting In Reducing Slips, Trips And Falls” can be broken down into three areas:
Purpose
Scope
Application
The purpose of the...
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It's always a good idea to have entrance matting at your building's portals, but are your mats truly working as hard as they should be for you? Here's seven points on which you should be evaluating your current entrance matting situation to make sure that you're getting the best bang for your buck.
Placement. Entrance matting needs to be placed in the right areas of a building to be effective. The most obvious spot is the...
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According to studies conducted by CNA Insurance, slip and fall accidents account for 61% of all claims and 53% of total claim costs for businesses with retail or public-facing areas. How can business owners or custodial operations managers know the condition of their floors and prevent slip and fall accidents?
It's easy! You can use the formal safety standards governing floor safety published by the American National Standards Institute.
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), in conjunction with the...
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Many commercial property managers are unaware of just how important high-performance entrance mats are to a building's overall health and appearance. Here's ten top reasons for why you might need to install a new entrance matting system in your commercial building:
No current mats at all. While this isn't a very regular occurrence, some buildings try to make-do without any type of entrance matting whatsoever. We see this most often in buildings that have placed a...
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Entrance matting isn't just for aesthetic purposes - when used properly, it can help reduce the potential for client and staff injuries due to slip and fall accidents, and it can also help to reduce your overall cleaning expenses. Think of your entrance matting as a gatekeeper for your building's doorways: the right type and amount of matting stops dirt from crossing into your building and spreading itself out, making itself more difficult and costly to...
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Did you know that nearly 80% of all the soil that accumulates on carpets consists of sand, dirt, and other dry particulates? This type of soiling is gritty and abrasive, and directly contributes to the premature wearing-out of your carpet's fibres and producing a dull, lifeless appearance. If this soil isn't removed through regular cleaning and maintenance, the particulates work their way down to the bottom of the carpet pile and rest against the primary backing. ...
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The first step to reducing slip and fall accidents is identifying their causes! Here's a list of the top ten most common causes of slip and fall accidents in commercial buildings that you should know:
Flooring surface type. Some types of flooring surfaces have coefficients of friction that vary immensely under different conditions! Various types of tile flooring can be nice and grippy when dry, but as soon as it's wet it can become slicker than...
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