Antislip Stair Nosings
Why Choose Antislip Stair Nosings over Antislip tapes?
Choosing between anti-slip stair nosings and anti-slip tapes depends on various factors such as durability, effectiveness, aesthetics, and ease of installation. Here are several reasons why one might opt for anti-slip stair nosings over anti-slip tapes:
- Durability: Stair nosings are typically made of robust materials such as aluminum, stainless steel, or fiberglass, designed to withstand heavy foot traffic, impacts, and environmental factors. They are more durable than adhesive tapes, which can wear out, peel off, or degrade over time, especially in high-traffic areas.
- Permanent Installation: Stair nosings are permanently installed on the edge of stairs, providing a long-lasting solution for slip prevention. Once installed, they remain securely in place, reducing the need for frequent maintenance or replacement compared to adhesive tapes, which may require periodic reapplication or replacement.
- Enhanced Visibility: Stair nosings often feature contrasting colors or reflective strips, improving visibility and reducing the risk of trips and falls, especially in low-light conditions or areas with poor visibility. This enhanced visibility is particularly crucial for safety compliance and accessibility in public buildings or workplaces.
- Uniform Appearance: Stair nosings offer a uniform appearance across staircases, providing a cohesive and professional look to the environment. They can be customized to match the decor or color scheme of the surroundings, enhancing the overall aesthetic appeal of the staircase.
- Greater Coverage: Stair nosings cover the entire leading edge of the stairs, offering comprehensive protection against slips and falls. In contrast, anti-slip tapes may provide limited coverage and may not effectively cover the entire tread surface, leaving gaps where slips can still occur.
- Code Compliance: In some jurisdictions, building codes or regulations may require the installation of anti-slip stair nosings in certain public or commercial buildings to ensure compliance with safety standards. Stair nosings that meet specific regulatory requirements offer assurance that the installation meets legal obligations for safety.
- Ease of Maintenance: Stair nosings are relatively easy to clean and maintain, requiring simple routine cleaning to remove dirt, debris, or other contaminants. In comparison, adhesive tapes may trap dirt or become dislodged, requiring more frequent cleaning and maintenance to ensure effectiveness.
While anti-slip tapes may offer a cost-effective temporary solution for slip prevention on stairs, anti-slip stair nosings provide a more durable, permanent, and aesthetically pleasing option for long-term safety and compliance in commercial, industrial, and public environments.
Antislip Stair Nosings
Slips, trips and falls on stairways are a more common occurrence in industrial and commercial environments than they should be, sharing about the same frequency of incidents being reported.
Advance Anti-Slip Surfaces offers a comprehensive range of antislip stair nosings that suits all types of steps or stairways. Stair Nosings that protect more than the steps leading edge from wear, but ensures that the stairway is visible to workers and visitors, and prevents incidents from occurring.
Nonslip stair nosing can be known by many names such as stair capping, bull nosing, stair treads, step covers etc. No matter what they are known as, Advance Anti-Slip Surfaces antislip Stair Nosings provide the most durable, highest quality, best valued protection for your assets by preventing loss due to a slip, trip or fall.
Advance Anti-Slip Surfaces antislip Stair Nosings have a very long serviceable life which is backed by our extensive warranty. They can be fixed permanently in moments without the risk of coming loose due to heavy pedestrian use. The highly visible Safety Yellow finish ensures the stairs leading edge will be seen while ascending or descending the stairway.
Unlike other types of products that may crack, become brittle, need time to cure, peel or delaminate, Advance Anti-Slip Surfaces antislip Stair Nosings are manufactured on a metal backing ready to install and use quickly so there is no inconvenience to pedestrians that need to walk in that particular area.
Antislip Stair Nosings Product Features
Here are some great features of Advance Anti-Sip Surfaces antislip Stair Nosings:
- Bright Safety Yellow nonslip coating provides high visibility and sure footing
- Manufactured to customer requirements utilising the most durable components available
- Made with strong metal backing
- High impact resistance
- Other colours available
- Easy to install
- Custom make sizes available
- Chemical resistant
- Suitable for all stairway applications
- Covered by an extensive warranty period
- Protects the stairs leading edge from wear over time
- Extremely high antislip rating that has been tested and certified
Antislip Stair Nosings Product Benefits
When Advance Anti-Sip Surfaces antislip Stair Nosings are installed, some of the benefits are:
- Superior slip and fall prevention in stairways, landings and pedestrian access areas
- Easy to clean
- No down time, simply install and it is ready to walk on
- Can easily be replaced if damaged
- Reduces MTI’s and LTI’s
- Fewer incidents of injury, saving any litigation costs
- Protects the stairs from wear over time saving maintenance budgeting
- Very easy to set up which saves on installation costs
