“Sticks to the floor like glue. Excellent for elderly with balance issues!!” ...

Slip and falls can cause devastating injuries and sometimes even death. Oftentimes, the pain from a slip and fall can be mild initially even though serious and permanent injuries have occurred.

Falls are the second leading cause of unintentional death in the United States and the most common cause of traumatic brain injuries (CDC). While not all falls are fatal, and many don’t cause any harm ...

As problem solvers, we tend to get way ahead of ourselves. We tend to go for solutions before we totally understand the causes, problems and the systems in which they exist. This is the problem when ...

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration branch of the U.S Department of Labor is responsible for developing and enforcing workplace health and safety standards. The most common categories of ...

Work-related injuries resulting from slips and falls take a heavy toll on businesses and employees. More than 600 deaths and 212,000 serious injuries were attributed to slips, trips and falls in 2009, ...

Training people to avoid falls by repeatedly exposing them to unstable situations in the laboratory helped them to later maintain their balance on a slippery floor. The study furthered the ...

In the days of Vaudeville, pratfalls were a potential occupational hazard that actors were willing to embrace because elaborate falls brought laughs to thousands of people. Today slips, trips and fall ...