Getting a Grip On the Floor: Worried...
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Getting a Grip On the Floor: Worried that one of your employees is going to slip on the factory floor and tie you up with a Workers’ Compensation Claim From Hell until it snows in Irvine?
Fret no more, say the makers of something called Flooride, a “friction conditioner.” Pouring their product on your floors, they say, will help prevent slips and falls.
The distributor, Safety & Environmental Systems in Waco, Tex., just opened its first branch office in Anaheim, obviously hoping to do a lot of business with California companies eager to avoid the morass of the workers’ comp system and keep OSHA inspectors at bay. (The distributor says the stuff meets Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards for making floors slip-resistant.)
In fact, California’s supposedly dreary business climate is a big part of the company’s sales pitch. Flooride, a company press release says, arrives in California just in the nick of time, “when liberal worker compensation laws have encouraged many business owners to flee to less-regulated states.”
The company already has one big local customer: The Anaheim Plaza Hotel, which uses the Flooride on its kitchen floors.
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