Floor safety experts nationwide and internationally, have considered this test to be a joke for many years! Yet this joke continues to be no laughing matter since companies keep sending their products to be tested using this outdated, withdrawn scam of a test!
Many of these areas can experience some sort of contamination due to negligence. If an area becomes contaminated with water or any other liquid substance, make sure that your team is properly trained to identify it immediately and to clean it up.
This type of treatment does not leave anything on your tile, it does not create any film that can peel over time. This treatment actually creates a series of microscopic mountain peaks and valleys in your tile.
In the United States, there is only one standard that is acceptable for measuring slip resistance. It is the ANSI A326.3 which tests for the DCOF of a surface and requires the DCOF to measure above a 0.42 to be compliant with the standard.
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