Coulsdon-based emergency cleaning company, CleanSafe Services (UK), has ‘launched a campaign’ to remind businesses across key sectors – including healthcare – ‘of the urgent need to safeguard staff and customers by applying an anti-slip coating to highrisk floors’.
The launch follows its acquisition of the floor treatment arm of Bonasystems Europe, ‘a leading manufacturer and provider of floor care chemical products’, giving it exclusive mainland UK rights to apply Bonasystems Grip, an anti-slip treatment for tiles, stone, and other cementitious surfaces.
CleanSafe Services MD, Steve Broughton, says the company will spend £250,000 over the next two years to develop the floor product application service and promote the safety benefits of Bonasystems Grip. Pointing out that there are over 20,000 RIDDOR reported slip and trip incidents every year in the UK, costing employers an estimated £0.5 billion annually in management costs, legal bills, compensation, and fines, he added: “New sentencing guidelines have greatly increased the potential fines for slip and trip incidents. This makes it more vital than ever for businesses to reduce these risks and the associated costs.”
Among existing Bonasystems Grip users are Network Rail – which reported a 60% reduction in slip and trip accidents after using the system at London’s Euston Station, Mitchells & Butlers, Sainsbury’s, and Hilton Worldwide.
CleanSafe Services, which provides emergency and specialist cleaning, will also offer a contract service for Bonasystems’ other surface treatment products for cleaning, maintaining, and sealing floors.
