Flooring: Design for Walkway Safety
Current walkway safety standards for Design, Testing, and Compliance of Flooring
Welcome to Flooring: Design for Walkway Safety
There is constant evolution of the information related to standards, equipment, research, and government regulation regarding the design, testing, and compliance of walkways. Within the last decade there have been significant changes in the technology available for use as flooring, for portable testing devices, and on primary research on the science of walkway.
This course is designed as an introductory course. It's meant to provide a thorough view into how to design for walkway safety taking a standards-based approach. It's ideal for the engineer, interior designer, architect, facility services or management professional, and risk management or safety professional. Choosing the proper flooring during the Design, Plan, and Building phase of the Cycle of Walkway Management is very important to the safety, or lack thereof, of the walkways during the Maintain and Insure phases.
After this 1-hour course you will be able to:
4.Identify the current published standards applicable test and measurement of COF for non-resilient and resilient flooring
5.Identify what measuring devices that can be used to measure COF using approved standards
7.Identify the current compliance requirements in the United States related to COF and walkway safety including OSHA and ADA
A bibliography is included with information on standards, books, and courses about walkway safety so you can learn more.
Your Instructor
David has over 15 years of developing walkway safety programs for all commercial facility types while at DiverseyLever, Johnson Wax, and Cintas.
He is a past Board Member at the National Floor Safety Institute and past Main Committee Member for the NFSI/ANSI B101 standard. He is currently a member of NFSI/ANSI B101.4 (Test Method for measuring the wet barefoot condition of flooring materials or products), ANSI A108 (Accredited Standards Committee on Ceramic and Glass Tile that manages the A137.1 and A326.3 standards), ASTM F13 (Pedestrian/Walkway Safety and Footwear), ASTM D21 (Polishes), F15.03 (Safety Standards for Bathtub and Shower Structures), and F06.6 (Resilient Floor Coverings - Slip Resistance).
He teaches the Substratum 3-day "Walkway Safety Professional" course, the 1/2 day "Introduction to Walkway Management", and the 3-hour "Design Considerations - Material Selection of Walkways for Health, Safety, and Welfare". Substratum is an approved CEU Provider for IDCEC.
He is a member of ASTM, ASSE, ISSA, FIRMA, and APEGM. He is a Fellow of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance. He has filed several patents related to walkway safety and has published articles and white papers in magazines like ISSA Today (ISSA), Facilitator Magazine (Restaurant Facility Management Association). He has presented to both company and industry events including RFMA and ACUHO-i (Assocation of College and University Housing Officers - International).
He has a Mechanical Engineering degree, has a Certificate in Assessing Walkway Safety from the University of Northern Texas, and is ANSI Walkway Auditor Certificate Holder #31.