Toward Slip and Fall Prevention:Exploring the Guidance and Challenges of Anti-slip Footwear

摘要：

　　Slips and falls have been recognized as a critical reason of leading injures.The occupational injuries caused by the slip and falls endanger the health and safety of employee,as well as leads to the cost and time loss of the companies.Suitable slip resistance footwear could help the worker preventing the slips and falls.The knowledge and guidelines to shed some lights on how to judge the slip resistance and choose the footwear suit to applications and purposes were summarized.Also,the challenges and open problems of anti-slip footwear development were presented and discussed.Further multifaceted synergistic researches are expected to dig out the various asp ects of slip resistance,from material to design,from floor surface to human factors,to guide developing effective slip resistance footwear.

关键词： Slip resistance Footwear Outsole Guideline Challenge

作者: Steve Chen Janet Jin Eva Lou

作者单位: Honeywell Safety Products, 430 Libing Road, Shanghai 201203, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2012 International Symposium on Safety Science and Engineering in China (2012安全科学与工程国际会议)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 364-368

在线出版日期: 2012-11-07（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）