Where Safety Trips Up in Restaurants

While many people assume that most slip-and-fall accidents in a restaurant happen in dining areas, the truth is they are far more likely to occur in the kitchen. According to the National Floor Safety Institute, although on average about one million slip-and-fall accidents occur in guest areas of a restaurant each year, more than three times as many happen in the kitchen work area. Read More ▸

Survey Finds Where Most Slips and Falls Happen in Restaurant Kitchens

A few years back, researchers conducted a study to determine which floor areas of a commercial kitchen were the least and the most slippery. As you can imagine, for chefs and kitchen workers, this is crucial information to know. When slip-and-fall accidents happen in a restaurant or a food service location, they are far more likely to occur in the back of the house—in the kitchen—than in the dining areas. Read More ▸

3 Key Restaurant "Matting Zones" to Consider When Purchasing Mats

Slip and fall accidents in foodservice locations such as restaurants are all too common. In fact, according to the National Floor Safety Institute, slip and fall accidents are the number one cause of injury in the hospitality industry. Read More ▸

How High-Performance Mats Can Keep Luigi & Every Chef Healthy & Happy

Luigi has a problem. Luigi is the chef at a busy Italian restaurant in downtown Chicago. Each day he comes in about three in the afternoon and rarely leaves before 11 pm. He handles several issues and performs several tasks before cooking begins. But invariably, no matter what he is doing, he is standing. Read More ▸

Do You Know Your Hotel's "Matting Zones"

Hotel properties are complex facilities. They include guest rooms, lobbies, food service areas, bars, sometimes ballrooms, and public and private meeting areas, to name just a few. Because of this, hotels typically need different types of mats to help protect the health of the facility and keep guests and hotel users safe. Read More ▸

Ways to Select Floor Mats Based on Foot Traffic

At first glance, most floor mats look pretty much the same. They typically are rectangular and come in a few different lengths and widths. This is most often the case if these are rental mats. Rental mats can be viewed as commodities. They are all pretty much the same as to size and quality, offering the customer relatively few options. Read More ▸

Supermarket Tellers and Anti-Fatigue Mats

Many people may not realize this, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) considers working as a grocery store teller to be a potentially hazardous job. The surprise is that when we think of dangerous jobs, we usually think about construction workers, window washers, or people that take considerable risk to perform their work duties. Read More ▸

Cross Reference Tool Helps Distributors Cut Through the Noise

With all the information available on the Internet, you'd think it would be easy for building owners and facility managers as well as distributors to select just about anything they need for their facilities and rest assured, they will get positive results. However, that does not appear to be the case. Read More ▸

Making Airports Cleaner from Day One

One of the largest cleaning companies in the U.S., was one of several asked to bid on the cleaning needs of a U.S. international airport. As with most cleaning proposals, the company listed several tasks they would be performing at the airport seven days per week throughout the year. Read More ▸

Why Install Mats? Five  Benefits of High-Performance Mats

Our distributors often report that some customers ask why they should install floor mats? Most of them do know, however, that floor mats can help keep facilities cleaner and healthier. There are several reasons to install high-quality floor mats. Here are five to consider: Read More ▸

Keeping Mats Clean Makes Your Facility Healthier and Productive

The astute facility manager knows just how vital mats are. They keep dust, soil, moisture, and grit outside, keeping the inside of their facility cleaner and healthier. Read More ▸