Help employees prevent slips, trips and falls through better housekeeping, lighting, footwear and safe habits on walking surfaces, stairs and ladders.
This essential safety training addresses slips, trips, and falls—the second leading cause of workplace fatalities and a leading cause of injuries across all industries. Workers in manufacturing, warehousing, retail, healthcare, construction, and office environments will learn to recognize fall hazards and implement preventive measures to protect themselves and coworkers. Participants will learn the differences between slip hazards (loss of traction), trip hazards (unexpected changes in walking surface), and fall hazards (elevation changes or unprotected edges). The course covers common causes including wet or contaminated floors, uneven surfaces, poor lighting, clutter and obstacles in walkways, improper footwear, rushing or inattention, and weather conditions like ice and snow. Topics include proper housekeeping practices and maintaining clear walkways, using appropriate floor treatments and non-slip surfaces, ensuring adequate lighting in work areas, selecting proper footwear with slip-resistant soles, using handrails on stairs and ramps, reporting and marking hazards immediately, safe material handling to maintain visibility and balance, fall protection requirements for elevated work, proper use of ladders and steptools, and OSHA's walking-working surface standards (29 CFR 1910 Subpart D). This training emphasizes that most slips, trips, and falls are preventable through awareness, good housekeeping, proper footwear, and taking time to walk safely rather than rushing.
Slips, trips and falls training is for virtually every worker, since these hazards exist in offices, plants, warehouses, kitchens, hospitals and outdoor sites. Janitorial staff, material handlers and anyone in wet, cluttered or dim areas face the highest risk. The 10-minute video is in English with Spanish, French and other closed captions.
In general industry, OSHA's walking-working surfaces rules at 29 CFR 1910 Subpart D cover slip, trip and fall hazards. Section 1910.22 requires surfaces kept clean, orderly and free of hazards such as spills and protruding objects. Ladders fall under 1910.23. Construction sites follow 29 CFR 1926 Subparts M and X.
A slip happens when your shoe loses grip on the walking surface, often because of water, oil or ice. A trip happens when your foot strikes an object or uneven surface while your upper body keeps moving forward. Either one can throw you off balance and lead to a fall.
Employers prevent slips, trips and falls mainly through housekeeping: clean spills immediately, keep walkways clear, and secure cords and mats. Provide good lighting, repair damaged flooring and install handrails on stairs. Encourage slip-resistant footwear and loads carried low enough that workers can see ahead.
Yes. Slips, trips and falls cause roughly a quarter of reported workplace injuries in the U.S. and are a leading cause of workplace deaths. Many of these injuries happen on the same level rather than from heights, so housekeeping, lighting and footwear matter in every workplace.
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