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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Commercial property managers have a responsibility to ensure that their buildings are kept clean and safe, both for staff and for the general public. Did you know that there actually are formal standards governing the use of entrance matting for commercial properties?
Section 6 of the ANSI/NFSI B101.6-2012 “Standard Guide For Commercial Entrance Matting In Reducing Slips, Trips And Falls” emphasizes that it is the property manager’s responsibility to not just select the right type of entrance matting for...
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Most property managers know that floor matting should be placed at building entrances, but did you know that there are other kinds of mats for other areas in your building? Different mats serve different purposes, and there are more areas in your building that need matting besides your front door!
Here's a few spots in your commercial facility or industrial building that you may have overlooked when considering your matting needs:
Guide visitors to your building with...
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