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The Safety of Polished Concrete |



Polished concrete is becoming an extremely popular flooring option for business facilities, factories, schools and residential homes because concrete flooring is as easy way to use a low maintenance, eco-friendly material. Concrete eliminates the need to use other flooring like carpeting, tile, laminate and wood while lasting a lifetime. Also it does not need to be replaced like other flooring options.

Concrete flooring is a budget saving option when picking decorative flooring for schools, hospitals, factories, residential homes, commercial and retail buildings. Also polished concrete is a safe surface, wet or dry, when grounded down, polished and correctly cleaned. It is considered one of the highest choices in flooring options for being the safest from accidents like slips, trips and falls.

How safe can polished concrete flooring be? And how does one determine the safety of concrete flooring?

The Concrete Polishing Association of America developed tests for coefficient of friction (COF) on polished concrete flooring. The different values of COF determine the slip resistance of polished concrete along with other types of walkway surfaces during wet and dry conditions. With COF testing, there are two different types of measurements. Static coefficient of friction (SCOF) tests the force needed to get an object to move budge or slip on walkways surfaces. While dynamic coefficient of friction (DCOF) tests the force needed for the object to stay in motion or slide with a constant velocity.

With the COF testing of polished concrete, CPAA shows indication that a large amount of concrete surfaces are providing measurements of 0.50 and higher for DCOF when wet. The American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) acceptable range value for walkway surfaces to be safe for DCOF is >0.42. This makes the DOCF measurements for polished concrete while wet considerably higher than the ANSI standard.

Now even though polished concrete has noticeable higher measurement for DOCF when wet, proper maintenance of the surface does not need to be overlooked. If polished concrete is not properly ground down, cleaned and maintained, the surface still can cause accidents.

Decorative polished concrete flooring is not only energy efficient since the surface material can retain heat, it can help reduce slips, trips and falls. When accidents are reduced it can prevent litigation and damage awards that can result from those slips, trips and falls on walkway surfaces. Using polished concrete could make an impact not only providing a desirable design flair for business facilities, hospitals, schools, residential homes and more but can have an impact on profitability by being budget friendly and being the safest surface material.
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