Today's Guest:

This time for Sliptember, I'm investigating the problems with bundling slips, trips, and falls together, exploring why it's dangerous and why it needs to stop.

I go into depth about why we categorize slips, trips, and falls together even though they're greatly different risks, and explain what we can do to overcome this issue.

I also talk about the difference between slips and trips in insurance claims costs, and what we can do to separate these problems and reduce the risk of each accordingly.

https://safetyroundtable.co.uk/

 

You'll learn:

• The problem with bundling slips, trips, and falls together.
• The difference between slips and trips in insurance claims costs.
• How to reduce trip risks.
• How to reduce slip risks.
• What we can do to stop combining slips, trips, and falls together.

 

Resources:

• IOSH Magazine
• RoSPA
• The Pendulum Test
• CHIMES - the six causes of slips and what you can do about them
• The Slip Prevention Scorecard
• The Safety Roundtable
• Slip Safety Services

 

In this episode, we talk about:

[2:27] The issue of bundling together different types of accidents.

[6:55] The different organisations that bundle slips, trips, and falls together.

[10:12] The problem with combining slips, trips, and falls together.

[13:56] The difference between slips and trips in insurance claims costs.

[16:44] How to reduce trip risks.

[18:37] How to reduce slip risks.

[27:16] The challenges of splitting up slips, trips, and falls.

[31:16] How to get more data from insurance companies.

[34:11] How to control hazards in washrooms, bathrooms, and toilets.

 

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Quotables:

• 15:14 - "We've got to stop allowing slips, trips, and falls to be grouped together because they're not the same thing and if you've got a problem with people slipping and you start to come in and think this is very straightforward let's just look at housekeeping you're missing the point. If you've got a problem with people tripping conversely and you start to come in and do slip tests and all sorts of other things like that you're also missing the point, so we need to split these out and understand what's really going on."
• 19:40 - "Unless we can stop grouping slips and trips together we're always going to have a problem because trips are simple and if we bundle trips and slips people, therefore, think slips are simple and then we don't put the time, effort or energy into solving them and then we still continue to have such a big problem, because remember the slips, trips, and falls category is massively dominated by slips according to the data."

 

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