#pendulum testing

Slip-and-fall accidents remain one of the most common causes of injuries in commercial and public environments. To accurately measure floor safety, professionals rely on the Pendulum test, an internationally recognized method for assessing surface friction. Also known as the pendulum slip test, this procedure evaluates how likely a person is to slip under both dry and wet conditions.

The pendulum test slip resistance method uses a swinging arm fitted with a rubber slider that simulates a heel striking the floor. The friction created during this movement produces a Pendulum Test Value (PTV). Higher values indicate better grip and lower slip risk. This makes pendulum testing an essential part of risk assessments for malls, hotels, hospitals, schools, and industrial facilities.

A particularly critical assessment is the wet pendulum test, as most slip accidents occur when floors are wet due to cleaning, spills, or weather conditions. Wet testing ensures a realistic understanding of safety performance and helps determine whether corrective treatments are required.

SwissGrip conducts professional pendulum slip testing to identify hazardous surfaces and recommend effective solutions. Regular testing supports compliance with international safety standards while protecting businesses from liability claims.

What is a slip disc?

A disc is said to be slipped when it bulges or tears out of its protective ring of connective tissue. It is also called bulging disc, ruptured disc or herniated disc.

Slip Disc Treatment

The pain can most often be treated by addressing the causes that led to this condition.

1. Self treatment

Simple home treatment like hot and cold applications accompanied by rest can often relieve the pain caused by minor cases of slip disc. The patient may also take over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medication and pain killers like Tylenol and Advil. Simple exercises that strengthen and stretch the back may provide a lot of relief. Physiotherapy and massage may also help, if required. 95% of the people are cured by these simple steps pendulum testing.

2. Change in life-style

Overweight people may also suffer from slip disc. The excessive flesh around the waist causes strain on the lumber spine which supports the entire weight of the upper body. When the discs in the vertebrae come under pressure, they tear out of their boundary and press against the nerve roots. Obesity often occurs due to lethargic lifestyle and uncontrolled eating habits. Eating vegetables and fruits, taking physical exercises regularly and positive thinking can go a long way in reducing the weight and pressure upon the lower back.

Medicines

If the do-it-yourself efforts fail to treat the slip disc, the patient may take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and narcotic pain killers. This may be accompanied by muscle relaxants if the person is suffering from spasmodic pains in the back.

Injections

If the oral medicines do not work, patient may have to take steroid injections into the lower back area where the slipped disc has occurred. These injections generally have to be taken once in every three months. The medicines or injections should only be taken at the advice of the doctor.

Surgery

We offer two options for anti-slip floor treatment. There’s a treatment WE apply (below), and

YOUR cleaning crew would apply. Non-Slip 21 (below) is an anti-slip floor treatment that we would apply to your slippery flooring and then provide certified testing afterwards for your records. If you are outside of the southern California area, having us treat your floors could be costly as we must travel to your location. We do have clients utilizing this service all over the country, but you may be looking for a cheaper solution. In that case, have a look at our

do-it-yourself anti-slip floor treatment products

, which is where you would buy the chemicals and then have your cleaning crew apply them, saving you possibly substantial money to anti-slip your floors. Both solutions work great and will provide you with a much more anti-slip floor!

Non-Slip 21: Anti-Slip Floor Treatment Services for Slippery Floors and Baths

The Non-Slip 21 process is a transparent, non-abrasive, professionally applied, tested and monitored anti-slip floor treatment for use in commercial/institutional/industrial properties to minimize risks of slips & falls. It’s the only anti-slip floor treatment endorsed by Ceramic Tile Institute of America and it has a track record of passing quarterly slip resistance tests for five years and more. Your anti-slip floor or bathtub/shower will retain its beauty while significantly increasing its safety.

The difference (microscopically):

Non-Slip 21 anti-slip floor treatment creates a transparent, anti-slip honeycomb structure on top of the surface to create better traction and suction (in wet conditions), drastically improving the slip resistance. Our certified slip resistance testing will provide you with periodic legal documentation of the continued safety of your anti-slip floors. Test reports are signed and stamped by a registered professional engineer.

In the past fifteen years, Non-Slip 21 non-skid floor treatment has been used to anti-slip floors in the 7-star Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai, numerous cruise ships, airports, restaurants, prestigious health clubs and more. Since Non-Slip 21 does not alter the appearance of your tile, it is suitable for use on granite, marble, terrazzo, wood, concrete, and almost any slippery tile. Read what our happy anti-slip floor treatment customers from around the world have said.

Advantages of Non-Slip 21 anti-slip floor safety treatment:

Minimizes slip and fall accident risk

Suitable for most granite, glazed and unglazed ceramic tiles, PVC, limestone, slate, terrazzo, concrete, terracotta, epoxy, linoleum, marble, thermoplastic and many other floor surfaces

Endorsed by Ceramic Tile Institute of America (CTIOA). This is the only anti-slip floor treatment that CTIOA endorses.

Professionally applied and tested non-skid floor treatment; five-year warranty with paid monitoring

Monitored quarterly to confirm that anti-slip floor treatment is still effective in making yours an anti-slip floor, providing proof of due diligence in slip and fall prevention and eliminating the need for guesswork on your part

Non-Slip 21 anti-slip floor treatment can give coefficient of friction (grip, slip resistance, or traction) levels that are safer in wet or dry conditions

Cost-effective slip and fall prevention

Non-toxic and not a culture medium (important for hospitals, kitchens, food & other bacteriologically sensitive areas)

Ready for pedestrian or vehicular traffic in under three minutes from application, reducing trading or manufacturing down time to a minimum

Potential reduction in insurance premiums or self-insured losses with a non-skid floor

Suitable to make exterior & interior flooring anti-slip

Common sense and, in some jurisdictions, regulations require that floors should be safe at the end of an economically reasonable working life — not just on the day they are installed. The Sustainable Slip Resistance test helps assess whether proposed new flooring will satisfy this requirement. The benefits of sustainable slip resistance testing include:

Protect your investment in installation of new slip-resistant flooring

Prevent injuries and suffering caused by slips and falls

Avoid costly and time-consuming litigation

Increase customer confidence and employee productivity

Comply long-term with the Americans with Disabilities Act and state and local building codes, which require slip-resistant floor surfaces (not just when the flooring is new)

The wet slip resistance of many flooring materials can decrease significantly due to maintenance practices, construction cleanup, wear, and other factors. Too frequently, construction or renovation cleanup alone (e.g. using a green pad on a floor machine) results in loss of wet slip resistance even before the building opens! Areas such as pool decks, restaurant kitchens, outdoor walkways, ramps and stairs, etc. require long-lasting slip resistance in the face of these possibilities.

Sotter Engineering Corporation can now test flooring samples for Sustainable Slip Resistance. This test, developed by the McDonald’s Restaurant chain and now specified by many other property owners (e.g. Westfield, Aldi, Toyota) assesses the effects of mild abrasion on wet slip resistance. This test identifies flooring that has a high propensity to lose its wet slip resistance.

The sample is first tested with the pendulum method, endorsed by Ceramic Tile Institute of America (ctioa.org, Floor Safety Report #1). It is then abraded, wet, with a 3M green pad loaded with one kilogram (35 ounces U.S.) of weight and a back-and-forth cycling rate of approximately one cycle per second.

A second wet test with the pendulum then assesses any loss in slip resistance due to the abrasion. A typical specification for Sustainable Slip Resistance is that after 500 cycles of abrasion the minimum wet Pendulum Test Value (PTV or BPN, British Pendulum Number) should be 35 for a level floor and 45 for a ramp of slope up to 1:8.

Anti-Slip Tapes –

Each of the tapes we offer are easy to apply and quickly transform a dangerous slippery situation into a safe and secure area. Every single one of our anti-slip tapes are great for wet situations and are perfect for either indoor or outdoor use. Our slip and fall preventative tapes come in the following colors: Black Standard, Red, Yellow Standard, Blue, Beige, Green, Grey, Brown, Gritty Clear, Fluorescent Yellow, Black/Yellow Hazard, Red/White Hazard, and White. (Orders over $120 ship free. We also provide express shipping)

Anti-Slip Floor Coatings –

We offer three different types of DIY paint-on anti-slip abrasive floor coatings. The first is SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip that is a clear and glossy paint, which provides you with an extremely long-lasting, anti-slip floor coating. SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip is extremely effective in preventing any slips or falls in either wet or dry conditions on: tile, marble, granite, wood, vinyl, mosaic, tubs, showers, pool decks, boats, ramps, and much more! To learn more about our other two DIY paint-on abrasive anti-slip floor coatings, pendulum testing.

Anti-Slip Floor Treatments –

Promoting Manager of Mactac Distributor Products ("Technology that Sticks", including indoor and outside floor illustrations). He talks about the accompanying about American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard

1. It quantifies DCOF [rather than SCOF]

2. It depends on footing ranges [low, adequate, and high slip resistance potential]

3. It's Required Versus Recommended [no particular reference given for this]

ANSI B101.3 utilizes the BOT-3000E advanced tribometer, which is suggested for indoor surfaces as it were. For outside, where individuals will probably run (particularly when it begins sprinkling), we at Safety Direct America suggest the pendulum test. For that test there are prescribed wellbeing norms for more than 30 indoor and open air circumstances.

Take note of that the main slip resistance test that has been incorporated into the International Building Code is another ANSI test, A137.1. Security Direct America can lead all these slip resistance tests and that's only the tip of the iceberg, in the field or at our research center. From our California central station we have tried similar to Canada, Mexico, Guam, and Bermuda. Testing can be one-time, or for better obligation assurance, occasional pendulum testing.