Bathtubs and shower bases
Where the majority of hotel slip incidents happen, and where the factory tread fails first.
Paint Free Anti-Slip Treatment
The signature Safe Step process. Engineered to increase the coefficient of friction on the surfaces guests stand on wet, and completed in occupied guest rooms with no room taken out of service.
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Room-nights out of service for anti-slip treatment
Performed in occupied rooms
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Traction standards certified against: ANSI, ASTM and NFSI
Independently published
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Odor. The process is completely odorless, so rooms are ready immediately
Paint free by design
2001
The year the process was finished, after a year of trial and error
Invented for this problem
The failure mode
The tread is still there. It just stopped working.
Slips and falls are among the leading causes of injury in hotels and resorts, and the majority of those incidents happen in the bathroom, on slippery or grimy surfaces.
Every hotel tub and shower base is manufactured with an anti-slip etch pattern moulded into the floor. Over time that pattern stops being a safety feature. Foot dirt, body oils, cleaning chemicals and disinfectants polymerize onto the etch, filling it in. What you see is an unsightly grey stain. What you have is a surface with no traction left.
This is the dangerous part. A tub with a failed tread does not look unsafe. It looks a little dirty. Housekeeping scrubs it, the stain stays, and everyone concludes the tub is simply old.
The treatment
Paint free, odor free, and out of your way.
Safe Step's Anti-Slip Treatment leaves hotel bathroom surfaces clean and restores traction, without adding a coating that will chip, peel or discolor. It is fast, and it is the reason this service costs nothing in inventory.
- Technicians coordinate with housekeeping and work while the room is unoccupied
- No guest is displaced and no booking is moved
- The process is completely odorless, so the room is ready to use immediately after service
- Applied with a synthetic grit that resists the worn, dirty look other complete solutions develop
For the risk director
Traction you can put in a file.
"We cleaned the tubs" is not a defensible position. Certification against published traction standards is. Safe Step's certifications cover the full range of wet surfaces on a hotel property, not just the guest tub.
Documented across the portfolio
Apply the same treatment and the same standard property by property and a corporate risk function ends up with one consistent record, rather than a different local vendor's word at every hotel.
Treatment specification
Certification
ANSI, ASTM, NFSI
Certified to meet published traction requirements for bathtubs, bathroom floors, pool decks and lobbies.
Mechanism
Increases coefficient of friction
The founding technical claim, developed specifically to raise the static coefficient of friction on wet surfaces.
Coating
None. Paint free
Nothing is added that can chip, peel or yellow, which is what separates this from a painted anti-slip product.
Odor
None
Rooms are ready to use immediately after service, so nothing has to be aired out or held back.
Downtime
Zero room-nights
Scheduled with housekeeping around an unoccupied room. No booking is moved and no guest is displaced.
Surfaces
Bathroom and beyond
Hotel pool decks, tile flooring, outdoor stone floors and staircases have all been treated with this process.
Where it goes
Every wet surface a guest walks on.
Public tiled areas and pool decks are exposed to wet conditions constantly, and they carry the same exposure as the guest bathroom with more people crossing them.
Pool decks
The surface that started the company. Permanently wet, permanently trafficked, rarely treated.
Tile floors and lobbies
Polished stone is at its most dangerous exactly when the weather makes it wet.
Bathroom flooring
The step out of the tub, onto tile, with wet feet. Treated as part of the same visit.
Outdoor stone and staircases
Entries, terraces and stairs where a wet season turns a finish into a liability.
Paired with refinishing
On a Premier Complete Coating the diamond tread is built into the six-coat system from the start.
Next step
Find out which surfaces have stopped gripping.
A Safe Step assessment reads the actual condition of your tubs, shower bases, bathroom floors and public wet areas, and tells you where the exposure is before someone finds it the hard way.
- Condition read on every wet surface, not just guest tubs
- Treatment scheduled around housekeeping, with no rooms held
- Certification coverage documented for your risk file
- Portfolio-wide standardization available for management companies
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