Keeping Your Factory's Flooring up to Code

March 28 2019 - Factories have to be up to code so that accidents are kept to a minimum. The wrong flooring can cause havoc to a factory's health and safety requirements, which is why you need to ensure your factory's flooring is durable, safe and reliable, but also finished to a certain standard.

Ensuring your flooring is above par means a happier and healthier workplace, where employees feel safe. This is optimal considering that many factories can be dangerous to work in if they are not well-regulated.

The following article is going to highlight the benefits of concrete factory flooring and how to ensure it is working to your advantage.

Durable and Long-Lasting

In most factories, you'll expect your equipment and your surroundings to take a battering over the weeks and months that you're in operation. There are certain unavoidable bumps, drops and other human errors that can cause damage to your factory.

The key benefit of using industrial-quality concrete flooring in your factory is that you'll be guaranteeing a strong, sturdy and long-lasting base to build your operations upon. It'll escape even small chips or uneven surfaces that can, in the long run, displace material to create a hazard in the workplace or an unprofessional-looking factory surface. With a durable floor as standard, you'll not have to concern yourself with damage and wear-and-tear.

Health and Safety

As alluded to in the point above, concrete flooring is one of the safest and most reliable things to install in a factory to ensure your staff's health and safety is being maintained to the highest standards possible. As a completely flat, to-standard surface, you'll not be providing your staff with any trip hazards or points of contact that they might stumble over, causing an accident.

As employee safety is absolutely paramount in your business, this point cannot be understated. The other rarely-considered benefit of smooth-surface concrete flooring is the ease with which it can be cleaned. When compared to office carpets, it's clear that concrete flooring is far less likely to harbour any dust that can cause inhalation problems or other germs and bacteria that can develop as a result of spills or pooling liquids.

Finish to Your Standard

Finally, there are a variety of finishes that you can apply to the concrete floor that'll help you attain the standard of floor to meet with your expectations for your workplace. Installing industrial concrete flooring isn't merely about the material itself forming a flat surface for you to play with - it's also about putting a layer across the top that can provide different functions based on the space's function.

For instance, a dust topping on the concrete floor is commonly used to increase resistance to abrasion, which ultimately means that those high-load, constantly-used concrete floors will go even further, allowing for even more wear and tear before they need fixing, replacing or resurfacing. Then there are toppers that'll help provide grip to your factory workers so that there's less chance of an unfortunate slip producing a workplace injury. The flexibility of toppings here is a benefit to employee safety and bolsters your investment further.

Concrete flooring, professionally installed, has many benefits for industrial planners - and this article outlines why it's the best choice for your company.

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