Requirements for the slip resistance of floor coverings in work spaces and operational traffic routes with a risk of slipping
(Source: ASR A1.5/1,2 “Floors”)
The scope of application of this technical information sheet is limited to work spaces, work areas and operational transport routes whose floors come into contact with sliding substances, where the risk of slipping is therefore to be presumed.
The average overall acceptance angle determined by the method of committing (skewed plane) is decisive for the classification of a floor covering into one of five evaluation groups. The evaluation group serves as a measure of the degree of slip resistance, with floor coverings with the rating group R 9 the lowest and with evaluation group R 13 the highest requirements for slip resistance.
Floors where a displacement chamber below the walking plane is required due to the seizure of special sliding substances shall be marked by a “V” in conjunction with the ratio for the minimum volume of the displacement chamber.
The assignment of work areas, work areas and operational traffic routes to evaluation groups in the table below does not claim to be complete. Unlisted work areas, work areas and operational traffic routes shall be classified in analogy with the table in an evaluation group, in accordance with the risk of slipping that they are expected to show, for example, depending on the frequency, quantity and type of lubricants that occur. The slip resistance is tested with a test shoe, the sole of which is profiled. For rough or profiled floor surfaces and for floors with displacement space, the shape closure with the sole profile contributes to the slip resistance. When selecting the evaluation group, it is therefore necessary to take into account which footwear is worn.
The measurement results of the test method for determining the slip resistance of floor coverings in the operating state (sliding friction coefficient ()) cannot be directly compared with the measurement results of the test (acceptance angle ()) at the skewed plane. The coefficient of friction can therefore not be used to classify it into an R group.
Number | Work rooms, work areas and company traffic routes | Slip hazard assessment group | Displacement space with code number for the minimum volume |
0 | General working rooms and areas*) | ||
0.1 | Entrance areas, inside**) | ||
0.2 | Entrance areas, outside | V 4 | |
0.3 | Stairs, inside***) | ||
0.4 | Outdoor stairs | V 4 | |
0.5 | Sloping ramps, inside***) (e.g. wheelchair ramps, compensation slopes, transport routes) | One R-group higher than required for the access flooring | V value of the access flooring, if applicable |
0.6 | Sanitary facilities | ||
0.6.1 | Toilets | ||
0.6.2 | Changing rooms and washrooms | ||
0.7 | Break rooms (e.g. recreation room, company canteens) | ||
0.8 | First aid rooms and similar facilities (see ASR A4.3) | ||
1 | Production of margarine, edible fat, edible oil | ||
1.1 | Fat Melting | V 6 | |
1.2 | Edible oil refinery | V 4 | |
1.3 | Production and packaging of margarine | ||
1.4 | Production and packaging of edible fat, bottling of edible oil | ||
2 | Milk processing and cheese production | ||
2.1 | Fresh milk processing including butter egg | ||
2.2 | Cheese production, storage and packaging | ||
2.3 | Food production | ||
3 | Chocolate and confectionery production | ||
3.1 | Sugar Cooking Plant | ||
3.2 | Cocoa production | ||
3.3 | Raw mass production | ||
3.4 | Placing, hollow body and praline production | ||
4 | Production of bakery products(bakeries, confectioneries, production of long-life bakery products) | ||
4.1 | Dough preparation | ||
4.2 | Rooms in which mainly fats or liquids are processed | ||
4.3 | Dish rooms | ||
5 | Slaughter, meat processing, meat processing | ||
5.1 | Slaughterhouse | V 10 | |
5.2 | Cutter room, intestinal mucus | V 10 | |
5.3 | Meat cutting | V 8 | |
5.4 | Sausage Kitchen | V 8 | |
5.5 | Cooked sausage department | V 8 | |
5.6 | Raw sausage department | V 8 | |
5.7 | Sausage drying room | ||
5.8 | Darmlager | ||
5.9 | Pickle, Smokehouse | ||
5.10 | Poultry processing | V 6 | |
5.11 | Slicing and packaging department | ||
5.12 | Craft business with sale | V 8****) | |
6 | Treatment and processing of fish, delicatessen | ||
6.1 | Working and processing of fish | V 10 | |
6.2 | Delicatessen production | V 6 | |
6.3 | Mayonnaise production | V 4 | |
7 | Vegetable preparation and processing | ||
7.1 | Sauerkraut production | V 6 | |
7.2 | Canned vegetable production | V 6 | |
7.3 | Sterilization rooms | ||
7.4 | Rooms in which vegetables for the | V 4 | |
8 | Wet areas in food and beverage production(unless specifically mentioned) | ||
8.1 | Storage cellar, fermentation cellar | ||
8.2 | Bottling of beverages, fruit juice production | ||
9 | Kitchens, dining rooms | ||
9.1 | Gastronomic kitchens (restaurant kitchens, hotel kitchens) | ||
9.2 | Kitchens for community catering in homes, schools, day-care facilities for children, sanatoriums | ||
9.3 | Kitchens for community catering in | ||
9.4 | Canteen kitchens for community catering | V 4 | |
9.5 | Preparation kitchens (fast food kitchens, | ||
9.6 | Defrost and heat-up kitchens | ||
9.7 | Coffee and tea kitchens, kitchens in hotels- | ||
9.8 | Rinse room | ||
9.8.1 | Rinse rooms for 9.1, 9.4, 9.5 | V 4 | |
9.8.2 | Rinse rooms to 9.2 | ||
9.8.3 | Rinse rooms to 9.3 | ||
9.9 | Dining rooms, guest rooms, canteens, including | ||
10 | Cold storage rooms, deep-freeze rooms, cold stores | ||
10.1 | For unpackaged goods | ||
10.2 | For packed goods | ||
11 | Points of sale, salesrooms | ||
11.1 | Goods receiving department meat | ||
11.1.1 | For unpackaged goods | ||
11.1.2 | For packed goods | ||
11.2 | Goods receiving department fish | ||
11.3 | Service aisle for meat and sausage | ||
11.3.1 | For unpackaged goods | ||
11.3.2 | For packed goods | ||
11.4 | Service aisle for meat and sausages, | ||
11.5 | Service aisle for dairy and delicatessen products, | ||
11.6 | Service aisle for fish | ||
11.6.1 | For unpackaged goods | ||
11.6.2 | For packed goods | ||
11.7 | Service aisles, | ||
11.8 | Meat preparation room | ||
11.8.1 | For meat processing, | V 8 | |
11.8.2 | For meat processing, | ||
11.9 | Flower arranging rooms and areas | ||
11.10 | Sales areas with ovens | ||
11.10.1 | For the production of baked goods | ||
11.10.2 | For baking up ready-made baked goods | ||
11.11 | Sales areas with deep fryers or grills | V 4 | |
11.12 | Sales rooms, customer rooms | ||
11.13 | Food preparation areas | ||
11.14 | Cash areas, packing areas | ||
11.15 | Outdoor sales areas | V 4 | |
12 | Rooms of the health service / welfare | ||
12.1 | Disinfection rooms (wet) | ||
12.2 | Sterilization pre-cleaning areas | ||
12.3 | Faeces rooms, drains, unclean | ||
12.4 | Section rooms | ||
12.5 | Rooms for medical baths, hydrotherapy, | ||
12.6 | Washrooms of OP's, plaster rooms | ||
12.7 | Sanitary sanitary rooms, ward bathrooms, ward bathrooms | ||
12.8 | Rooms for medical diagnostics and | ||
12.9 | Operating rooms | ||
12.10 | Wards with sickrooms and corridors | ||
12.11 | Medical practices, day clinics | ||
12.12 | Pharmacies | ||
12.13 | Laboratory rooms | ||
12.14 | Hairdressing salons | ||
13 | Laundry | ||
13.1 | Rooms with continuous washing machines | ||
13.2 | Rooms with washing machines, where the | ||
13.3 | Ironing and mangling rooms | ||
14 | Concentrated feed production | ||
14.1 | Dried fodder production | ||
14.2 | Concentrated feed production using | V 4 | |
15 | Leather production, textiles | ||
15.1 | Water workshop in tanneries | ||
15.2 | Rooms with fleshing machines | V 10 | |
15.3 | Rooms with accumulation of glued leather | V 10 | |
15.4 | Grease spaces for seal production | ||
15.5 | Dyeing plants for textiles | ||
16 | Paint production | ||
16.1 | Wet grinding areas | V 10 | |
16.2 | Powder coating | ||
16.3 | Painting | ||
17 | Ceramic industry | ||
17.1 | Wet mills (preparation of ceramic | ||
17.2 | Mixer | V 6 | |
17.3 | Pressing (shaping) | V 6 | |
17.4 | Casting, die-casting areas | ||
17.5 | Glazing ranges | ||
18 | Working and processing of glass and stone | ||
18.1 | Stone sawmill, stone grinding | ||
18.2 | Glass forming of hollow glass, container glass | ||
18.3 | Grinding shop areas for hollow glass, flat glass | ||
18.4 | Insulating glass production | V 6 | |
18.5 | Packaging, shipping of flat glass | V 6 | |
18.6 | Etching and acid polishing plants for glass | ||
19 | Concrete plants | ||
19.1 | Concrete washing areas | ||
20 | Storage areas | ||
20.1 | Storage rooms for oils and greases | V 6 | |
20.2 | Storage rooms for packaged foodstuffs | ||
20.3 | Outdoor storage areas | V 4 | |
21 | Chemical and thermal treatment of iron and metal | ||
21.1 | Pickling plants | ||
21.2 | Hardening | ||
21.3 | Laboratory rooms | ||
22 | Metal working and processing, Metal workshops | ||
22.1 | Electroplating rooms | ||
22.2 | Grey cast iron machining | V 4 | |
22.3 | Mechanical processing areas (e.g. | V 4 | |
22.4 | Parts cleaning areas, | ||
23 | Workshops for vehicle maintenance | ||
23.1 | Repair and maintenance rooms | ||
23.2 | Working and test pit | V 4 | |
23.3 | Washing hall, washing places | V 4 | |
24 | Workshops for the maintenance of aircraft | ||
24.1 | Aircraft hangars | ||
24.2 | Shipyard Halls | ||
24.3 | Washing places | V 4 | |
25 | Wastewater treatment plant | ||
25.1 | Pump rooms | ||
25.2 | Rooms for sludge dewatering plants | ||
25.3 | Rooms for computer systems | ||
25.4 | Positions of workstations, working platforms and maintenance platforms | ||
26 | Fire stations | ||
26.1 | Vehicle parking spaces | ||
26.2 | Rooms for hose maintenance equipment | ||
27 | Function rooms in the respiratory protection training facility | ||
27.1 | Preparation room | ||
27.2 | Condition room | ||
27.3 | Practice room | ||
27.4 | Lock | ||
27.5 | Target area | ||
27.6 | Heat habituation room | ||
27.7 | Control center | ||
28 | Schools and childcare facilities | ||
28.1 | Entrance areas, corridors, break halls | ||
28.2 | Classrooms, group rooms | ||
28.3 | Stairs | ||
28.4 | Toilets, washrooms | ||
28.5 | Teaching kitchens in schools | ||
28.6 | Kitchens in day-care centres | ||
28.7 | Machinery rooms for woodworking | ||
28.8 | Special rooms for works | ||
28.9 | Playgrounds | V 4 | |
29 | Financial institutions | ||
29.1 | Counter rooms | ||
30 | Operational traffic routes in outdoor areas | ||
30.1 | Walkways | V 4 | |
30.2 | Loading ramps | ||
30.2.1 | Roofed | V 4 | |
30.2.2 | Uncovered | ||
30.3 | Sloping ramps | V 4 | |
30.4 | Refuelling areas | ||
30.4.1 | Covered | ||
30.4.2 | Uncovered | ||
31 | Parking areas | ||
31.1 | Garages, elevated and underground car parks not exposed to the weather*****) | ||
31.2 | Garages, high and underground car parks with weather influence Garages, high and underground car parks with weather influence | V 4 | |
31.3 | Outdoor Parking Areas | V 4 | |
*) for floors in barefoot wet areas see GUV-Information “Floorcoverings for wet-contaminated barefoot areas” (GUV-I 5827)
**) Entrance areas referred to in point 0.1 are the areas which are entered directly from the outside by entrances and can be brought in from the outside (see also point 6 (3), use of dirt and moisture transducers). For subsequent areas or other large-area spaces, point 4 is paragraph 4. 10.
) Stairs, ramps in accordance with points 0.3 and 0.5 are those on which moisture can be carried in from the outside. For subsequent areas, point 4 is paragraph. 10.
) If a uniform floor covering has been laid everywhere, the displacement chamber can be reduced to V 4 due to a risk assessment (taking into account the cleaning process, the work processes and the seizure of sliding materials on the floor).
) Pedestrian areas which are not affected by the risk of slipping due to weather conditions, such as rain or introduced wetness.