Performance testing of work shoes labeled as slip resistant

Jones, Taylor G.; Iraqi, Arian; Beschorner, Kurt E.

doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2017.12.008

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“…Shoes labeled as slip-resistant (SR) as well as those that did not include this label (NSR) were procured from 10 different brands. Footwear selection aimed at having a wide variation across those which are worn in indoor work settings, including the ones labeled as SR, and those which are commonly worn as an alternative to SR (Jones et al, 2018). A total of 17 shoes (Six Oxford-style work shoes, three clogs, seven comfort shoes, and one athletic shoe) were tested (Table 1).…”

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“…The ceramic tile and one of the vinyl tiles (“ref vinyl”) were reference tiles from the ASTM F2508 standard (2012). The second vinyl tile was used because it was installed in a gait laboratory for a human validation analysis, which is described in Jones et al (2018). The quarry tiles were chosen to simulate common flooring used in the food industry (W.-R. Chang, Li, Filiaggi, Huang, & Courtney, 2008).…”

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“…Canola oil was applied to represent a high viscosity contaminant that is commonly found in kitchens. SLS is a reference contaminant from the ASTM F2913-17 standard (2017) and has been used in previous work (Jones et al, 2018) to simulate a detergent aqueous solution. Water is the most common low viscosity contaminant used in traction testing (A.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Water is the most common low viscosity contaminant used in traction testing (A. Iraqi, Cham, Redfern, Vidic, & Beschorner, 2018; Jones et al, 2018) and is ubiquitous in work and living environments.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The proportion of exposures resulting in a slip approached 1 as ACOF-RCOF approaches negative infinity. Recently, Jones et al (2018) evaluated the ACOF values of standard slip-resistant shoes (SR) in the market. Twelve shoe designs were tested with three contaminants and five different flooring materials using a biofidelic slip tester, and the rate of slipping was evaluated with a human-subjects study.…”

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Generalizability of Footwear Traction Performance across Flooring and Contaminant Conditions

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Beschorner

2018

IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors

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Background: To prevent slip and fall events at the workplace, mechanical slip testing is conducted on shoes. Such experiments may involve redundant testing across floorings and contaminant conditions, causing wasted time and effort. Purpose: Quantify the correlations between shoe traction across different contaminant-flooring conditions to reduce redundant slip testing efforts. Methods: The available coefficient-of-friction (ACOF) was quantified for 17 shoes across five floorings and three contaminant conditions. Redundant testing conditions were identified when the shoe ACOF values for one floor-contaminant condition were highly correlated with a second floorcontaminant condition. Results: High correlations were observed among quarry floorings across different contaminants and among vinyl (composite tile) floorings with the same contaminant. However, vinyl floorings exhibited low correlations with quarry floorings. Low correlations were also observed across contaminants within vinyl tiles. Conclusions: This study was able to determine the generalizability of traction performance of shoes across vinyl and quarry floorings. This information is anticipated to reduce redundant traction testing of shoes across vinyl and quarry floorings.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%