Slips, trips and falls have become one of the main health and safety risks in our community and the most expensive occupational health and safety cost for business and industry.
Slip and fall prevention has become a national health priority area. The Australian Government has many initiatives designed to reduce such injuries in the workplace, in residences and in public areas.
The potential for serious injury from slips, trips and falls cannot be overestimated. Such incidents have critical consequences and long-term effects. Workers’ compensation insurance covers only a small portion of the costs. It does not account for indirect costs, such as:
85% of all slip and fall injuries can be prevented.
The Australian government stipulates that Australian businesses, as well as home-owners, must ensure that pedestrian surfaces meet certain standards of slip resistance. Failure to address floor safety issues leaves businesses and home-owners at risk of litigation and its impacts.
Item | Work Rooms & Work Areas | Classification Group of Slip Hazard | Minimum Displacement Volume |
0 | General work rooms and work areas | ||
0.1 | Entrance Areas | R9 | |
0.2 | Entrance Stairs | R9 | |
0.3 | Social Facilities (toilets, washrooms) | R10 | |
1 | Production of margarine, edible fats and oil | ||
1.1 | Melting of fats | R13 | V6 |
1.2 | Cooking oil refinery | R13 | V4 |
1.3 | Margarine production and packaging | R12 | |
1.4 | Cooking oil production and filling of bottles | R12 | |
2 | Milk processing, cheese production | ||
2.1 | Fresh milk processing and butter production | R12 | |
2.2 | Cheese production, storage and packaging | R11 | |
2.3 | Icecream production | R12 | |
3 | Chocolate and confectionary production | ||
3.1 | Sugar processing | R12 | |
3.2 | Cocoa production | R12 | |
3.3 | Production of raw mixtures | R11 | |
3.4 | Production of chocolate bars, eggs and confectionary | ||
4 | Bakery Products | ||
4.1 | Dough preparation | R11 | |
4.2 | Rooms in which mainly greasy or liquid mixtures produced | R12 | |
4.3 | Washing-up rooms | R12 | V4 |
5 | Slaugterhouse, meat processing | ||
5.1 | Slaughterhouse | R13 | V10 |
5.2 | Tripe processing | R13 | V10 |
5.3 | Meat Sectioning | R13 | V8 |
5.4 | Sausage Kitchen | R13 | V8 |
5.5 | Boiled Sausage department | R13 | V8 |
5.6 | Raw sausage department | R12 | |
5.7 | Smoking room | R12 | |
5.8 | Salting and curing room | R12 | |
5.10 | Poultry processing | R12 | V6 |
5.11 | Intestine Storage | R12 | |
5.12 | Cold meat slicing and packaging departments | R12 | |
6 | Processing of fish, delicatessen products | ||
6.1 | Fish processing | R13 | V10 |
6.2 | Delicatessen production | R13 | V6 |
6.3 | mayonnaise production | R13 | V6 |
7 | Vegetable processing | ||
7.1 | Production of sauerkraut | R13 | V6 |
7.2 | Vegetable tinning | R13 | V6 |
7.3 | Sterilising rooms | R11 | |
7.4 | Rooms in which vegetables are prepared for processing | R12 | V4 |
8 | Other wet areas used for food and drink production | ||
8.1 | Storage cellars | R10 | |
8.2 | Beverage bottling, fruit juice production | R11 | |
9 | Catering Establishments | ||
9.1 | hotel and restaurant kitches | ||
9.1.1 | Up tp 100 meals a day | R12 | V4 |
9.1.2 | More than 100 meals a day | R12 | V4 |
9.2 | Kichens catering for homes, schools and sanatoriums | R11 | |
9.3 | Kitchens catering for hospitals and clinics | R12 | |
9.4 | Large kitchens catering for indutrial and university canteens, contract catering | R12 | V4 |
9.5 | Fast food kitchens, snack bars | R12 | V4 |
9.6 | Kitchens for heating up frozen meals | R10 | |
9.8 | Washing-up rooms | ||
9.8.1 | Washing-up rooms for 9.1, 9.4, 9.5 | R12 | V4 |
9.8.2 | Washing-up rooms for 9.2 | R11 | |
9.8.3 | Washing-up rooms for 9.3 | R12 | |
9.9 | Dining rooms, guest rooms, canteens including serving counters | R9 | |
10 | Cold stores, deep freeze stores | ||
10.1 | For unpacked goods | R12 | |
10.2 | For packed goods | R11 | |
11 | Sales outlets, shops | ||
11.1 | Reception of goods, meat | R11 | |
11.2 | Reception of goods, fish | R11 | |
11.3 | Serving counters for unpackaged meat and sausages | R11 | |
11.4 | Serving counters for packaged meat and sausages | R10 | |
11.5 | Serving counters for fish | R12 | |
11.6 | Meat preparation room | R12 | |
11.7 | Florists shops | R11 | |
11.8 | Sales areas with stationary ovens | R11 | |
11.9 | Sales areas with stationary deep fryers or grills | R12 | V4 |
11.10 | Shops, customer accessible areas | R9 | |
11.11 | Preparation areas for food for self-service shops | R10 | |
11.12 | Cash register areas, packing areas | R9 | |
11.13 | Sales areas for unpackaged bread, cakes, pastries | R10 | |
11.14 | Sales areas for unpackaged cheese and cheese products | R10 | |
11.15 | Serving counters except for 11.3 to 11.5 and 11.13, 11.14 | R9 | |
12 | Health service rooms | ||
12.1 | Disinfection rooms (wet) | R11 | |
12.2 | Sterilisation rooms | R10 | |
12.3 | Excrement disposal rooms, unclean nursing work rooms | R10 | |
12.4 | Pathological facilities | R10 | |
12.5 | Hydrotherapy rooms, medical bath areas | R11 | |
12.6 | Wash rooms of operating theatres, plastering rooms | R10 |
12.7 | Sanitary rooms, ward bath rooms | R10 | |
12.8 | Rooms for medical diagnostics and therapy, massage rooms | R9 | |
12.9 | Operating theatres | R9 | |
12.10 | Wards with hospital rooms and corridors | R9 | |
12.11 | Medicine practices, day clinics | R9 | |
12.12 | Pharmacies | R9 | |
12.13 | Laboratories | R9 | |
12.14 | Hairdressing salons | R9 | |
13 | Laundry | ||
13.1 | Rooms with washing machines for washing laundry with water | R11 | |
13.2 | Ironing rooms | R9 | |
14 | Fodder concentrate production | ||
14.1 | Dried fodder production | R11 | |
14.2 | Fodder concentrate production using fats and water | R11 | V4 |
15 | Leather production; textiles | ||
15.1 | Wet areas in tanneries | R13 | |
15.2 | Rooms with skimming machines | R13 | V10 |
15.3 | Areas where leather scraps accumulate | R13 | V10 |
15.4 | Rooms where grease is used to make leather impermeable | R12 | |
15.5 | Die mill for textiles | R11 | |
16 | Paint shops | ||
16.1 | Wet grinding areas | R12 | |
17 | Ceramic industry | ||
17.1 | Wet grinding mills for raw material processing | R11 | V10 |
17.2 | Mixing and handling of tar, pitch, graphite and synthetic resins | R11 | |
17.3 | Pressing (shaping), with tar, pitch, graphite and synthetic resins | R11 | |
17.4 | Moulding areas | R12 | |
17.5 | Glazing areas | R12 | |
18 | Stone glass processing | ||
18.1 | Stone cutting, grinding and polishing | R11 | |
18.2 | Glass shaping | ||
18.2.1 | Hollow glass ware, flat glass | R11 | |
18.3 | Grindery areas | ||
18.3.1 | Hollow glass ware, flat glass | R11 | |
18.4 | Insulating glass manufacture, handling of drying agents | R11 | |
18.5 | Packaging, shipping of flat glass, handling of drying agents | R11 | V6 |
18.6 | Etching and acid polishing facilities for glass | R11 | |
19 | Cast concrete facilities | ||
19.1 | Concrete washing areas | R11 | |
20 | Storage areas | ||
20.1 | Store rooms for oils and fats | R12 | V6 |
21 | Chemical and thermal treatment of iron and metal | ||
21.1 | Pickling plants | R12 | |
21.2 | Hardening ship | R12 | |
21.3 | Labratory rooms | R11 | |
22 | Metal processing, metal workshops | ||
22.1 | Galvanising shops | R12 | |
22.2 | Grey cast iron processing | R11 | |
22.3 | Mechanical processing areas (e.g. turning section, press working), drawing installation (pipes, wires) and areas exposed to increased oil and lubricant contamination | R11 | |
22.4 | Parts cleaning areas, exhaust steam areas | ||
23 | Vehicles repair workshops | ||
23.1 | Repair and servicing bays | R11 | |
23.2 | Working and inspection bays | R12 | V4 |
23.3 | Car wash areas | R11 | V4 |
24 | Aircraft service and repair workshops | ||
24.1 | Aircraft hangars | R11 | |
24.2 | Repair hangars | R12 | |
24.3 | Washing halls | R12 | V4 |
25 | Waste water treatment plants | ||
25.1 | Pump rooms | R12 | |
25.2 | Rooms for sludge draining units | R12 | |
25.3 | Rooms for screening equipment | R12 | |
26 | Fire Brigade buildings | ||
26.1 | Vehicle parking bays | R12 | |
26.2 | Hose maintenance equipment rooms | R12 | |
27 | Financial Institutions | ||
27.1 | Counter areas | R9 | |
28 | Garages (with exception of areas in number 0) | ||
28.1 | Garages, multi-storey carpark, car parks | R10 | |
29 | Schools and Kindergartens | ||
29.1 | Entrance halls, corridors, assembly halls | R9 | |
29.2 | Classrooms, group rooms | R10 | |
29.3 | Stairs | R10 | |
29.4 | Toilets, washrooms | R10 | |
29.5 | Instructional kitchens in schools (see also number 9) | R10 | |
29.6 | Kitchens in Kindergartens (see also number 9) | R10 | |
29.7 | Machine rooms for woodworking | R10 | |
29.8 | Special rooms for handicrafts | R10 | |
Ref: HB 197:1999 - Standards Australia |
N. Uzelac / Business Owner