The Influence Of Different Footwear On Floor Contaminatio

Slipping and falling are common phenomena in both workplaces and our daily activities.

The influence of different footwear on floor contaminatio. The contamination of a floor due to walking was about 16 times higher than contamination of the floor due to sedimentation only measured with impression plates. No significant difference in floor contamination could be seen with different footwear ordinary shoes clean shoes shoe covers. Shoe soles of various tread design are very common. The contamination of a floor due to walking was about 16 times higher than contamination of the floor due to sedimentation only measured with impression plates.

Walking gave the highest redispersal factor 3 5 x 10 3 m 1 which was three times higher than for blowing and 17 times higher than for mopping. The importance of walking as a source of floor contamination and the influence of different footwear routines on floor contamination was evaluated. The analysis of variance results indicated that the footwear material floor contamination conditions and groove width were all significant p 0 0001 factors affecting the measured cof. Acof estimated with ref vinyl and any contaminant exhibited generally low correlation with acof of the other vinyl when the contaminant was also.

The importance of walking as a source of floor contamination and the influence of different footwear routines on floor contamination was evaluated. Traction of shoes across different floorings and different contaminants the traction or acof were correlated for certain cases when changing both the floor and contaminant conditions table 3. In a study conducted by gupta a et al to find the efficacy of protective footwear on bacterial floor colonization the floor and air colony counts showed no significant difference in the two. The redispersal factor for bacteria carrying particles from a contaminated floor was determined after mopping blowing and walking activity.