Toward Slip and Fall Prevention: Exploring the Guidance and Challenges of Anti-slip Footwear

Slips and falls have been recognized as a critical reason of leading injures. The occupational injuries caused by the slip and falls endanger the health and safety of employee, as well as leads to the cost and time loss of the companies. Suitable slip resistance footwear could help the worker preventing the slips and falls. The knowledge and guidelines to shed some lights on how to judge the slip resistance and choose the footwear suit to applications and purposes were summarized. Also, the challenges and open problems of anti-slip footwear development were presented and discussed. Further multifaceted synergistic researches are expected to dig out the various aspects of slip resistance, from material to design, from floor surface to human factors, to guide developing effective slip resistance footwear.