Industries · Property Management
Slip & Fall Prevention for
Property Managers
Every lobby, parking deck, pool deck and common-area walkway is a slip claim waiting to be documented, or defended. Multiply that across a portfolio and floor safety becomes a risk-management line item in its own right.
Where the slip risk lives in managed properties
Property managers carry slip-and-fall exposure across surfaces they didn’t choose and can’t easily replace: polished lobby stone, tile entryways that flood when it rains, parking structures with painted traffic coatings, breezeways, stairwells, and amenity pool decks. Each has a different failure mode, and each generates the same thing when someone falls — a demand letter addressed to the management company. The floors came with the building; the liability comes with the lease.
What documentation actually protects a management company
When a claim lands, the questions are always the same: did you know the floor was slippery, and what did you do about it? A one-time inspection answers neither. A floor safety management program — scheduled testing across your key walkways with archived reports structured to the ASTM F2048 format — shows a pattern of diligence that is difficult for a plaintiff to overcome and easy for your carrier to respect. It shows you measure your floors on a schedule and can produce the record.
Our approach for portfolios
- Baseline slip resistance testing across representative walkways at each property
- Priority attention to the high-consequence surfaces: entries, pool decks, stairs, ramps
- Anti-slip treatment for problem floors, verified by re-testing
- Quarterly re-testing and trend tracking so a floor drifting toward slippery is caught before someone falls
- A single documented record per property, ready for insurance review or litigation defense
Common questions
Do you work across a whole portfolio?
Yes. We build programs that cover multiple properties on one schedule with consistent reporting, so your risk documentation looks the same across every building you manage.
Will testing disrupt tenants?
No. Testing is quiet and non-destructive and can be scheduled around residents and business hours, including early mornings and weekends.
What if a floor fails?
You get an immediate flag with treatment options. We remediate, re-test, and the documented fix becomes part of your record. That’s diligence in writing.
In the field
Across your buildings.
