Are you aware of the dangers of cracked and damaged flooring?

Aug. 22, 2010 - PRLog -- Your business relies on a lot of things to keep it running effectively and efficiently every day, and sometimes it can be easy to take for granted some of the most essential factors, such as the state of the floor. In fact, it’s impossible to overstate the importance of a safe area of flooring in an industrial context.

As well as having a natural effect on performance, your choice and maintenance of industrial flooring has a considerable impact on the Health and Safety of your employees’ working environment. These days Health and Safety is a much bigger issue than ever before, and for good reason. If you run an industrial workplace you will understandably want to create an environment that keeps your employees safe and therefore productive.

Many people assume that having a floor upgraded or treated in some way is going to have a prohibitive price tag. However, PSR Industrial Flooring aim to provide a range of flooring solutions that are excellent quality, safe, robust and also fantastic value for money, allowing you to get the absolute best out of your available budget.

There are many potential negative consequences of having a floor in an industrial situation that is not up to standard. This includes flooring that is cracked or damaged, even if the wear and tear is restricted to what may seem like a small and inconsequential area. In many cases, addressing this issue and having floor repairs carried out may not even require the floor to be fully replaced, but rather to be upgraded or treated.

If your floor has become damaged, eroded or was simply uneven or sub standard to start with, there are a host of ways that this can negatively impact on your business. Employee accidents are of course one of the main possible consequences. As well as the sometimes immeasurable impact that this can have on their lives, it can of course leave you guilty of criminal wrongdoings, exposed to legal action, and also short of an employee. It has long been proven that a healthy happy workforce is always more productive, and creating an atmosphere in which your staff understand that you value their health and safety makes for a far more efficient operation.

Construction joint failure is a common culprit, often appearing on concrete floors and leaving the way open for damage not just to the human workforce but the mechanical one too. Concrete flooring repair is actually not as huge a job as you would expect, with a professional industrial flooring repair team able to break out the damaged area and fill with a repair mortar. The floor can then be sealed and re-able to handle foot traffic and heavy machinery such as fork lift trucks.  

Poor quality flooring can also cause such consequences as dampness, and the associated health implications. If your business involves handling certain materials and chemicals, then the importance of a good condition floor is paramount.

Depending on your own particular business, a poor quality floor area may also be having an effect on efficiency. Most industrial processes operate best in a set of optimum conditions, and if your environment does not match up to these it may be costing you money on a daily basis.

If the problem is more of a cosmetic one, a cracked floor may not pose a real threat to your workforce but may detract from the professional impression your business premises project. In that case, a simple floor screed can be applied from as little as 3mm in thickness, giving a brand new look at a fraction of the cost.

Whether you have a new business, new premises or are looking to assess an existing one, PSR will give you trustworthy advice as to what your flooring options are. For more information on PSR Industrial Flooring and their services please visit http://www.psrindustrialflooring.co.uk or phone 01484 860054.

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PSR are happy to advise on the correct choice of flooring for you. Having extensive experience across many industry sectors PSR can control the quality of materials and workmanship through to project completion.