DCM Surfaces recently reported concerns which many of its customers had in relation to slip resistance on a number of surfaces inclusive of its wet pour safety surfacing. It was concerns about these products which resulted in many customers choosing alternative products.

DCM felt that not enough investigation was being carried out by companies within the industry and strongly believed that more research should be carried out into ways in which people can still benefit from safety surface installation whilst improving the overall product quality in order to ensure that slip resistance guidelines were met.

At present, the issue of slip resistance and safety surfacing is something which DCM are taking extremely seriously. DCM reported to the public after having been in contact with a leading slip resistance expert whom has tested slip resistance of a whole range of surfaces across the whole of the UK as well as internationally throughout the world.

DCM promised to keep its customers up to date with its testing, research and investigations into slip resistance testing. This ultimately would keep customers informed on how DCM are striving to bring a higher quality of safety surfacing with added slip resistance back to the market in order to meet customer demand.


Since the initial press release in relation to this, DCM have had a number of slip resistance tests carried out and are extremely pleased with the results based on products supplied and installed by DCM.

Owner of Safety Direct Global, Terry Roberts, said. "DCM has proven to me to be a company whose ethos is around safety, their speciality is impact flooring and slip resistance. DCM has shown the initiative to go further than all other companies that I have come across."

Terry is owner of Safety Direct Global Inc. He is a slip resistance expert and has been a Forensic Engineer and an expert witness for the courts for 25 years. A member of the World Safety Organisation, DCM couldn’t have found someone more qualified to test its surfacing.

The purpose of impact surfacing is to cushion the impact of a child's accidental fall and reduce the severity of an injury. To meet the requirements of BS EN 1176 and BS EN 1177, impact absorbing surfaces must be installed beneath all equipment with a free height of fall greater than 0.6m. As a general rule, if the existing surface is tarmac or other hard surface impact surfacing should be installed beneath all play equipment regardless of the free height of fall.

There are a wide range of impact surfacing, including wet pour, tiles, synthetic grass and other types The appropriate surfacing requirements will depend on several factors; type of equipment, durability, aesthetic appearance, maintenance, local ground and climatic conditions and cost.

All surfacing offered and installed by DCM have been independently tested to ensure full compliance with BS EN 1177, BS 7188 and BS: 7976. With the additional test of BS: 7976 for slip resistance, all its installations of impact surfacing meet the requirements of slip resistance to LOW RISK.

DCM’s moral standard in meeting impact and slip resistance to provide additional safety also includes a regular monitoring system to ensure compliance throughout its warranty period. This acts as an early warning system so that steps if and when required always keeps clients fully compliant and reduces any risk of litigation.

Management of all installations monitored during installation through DCM's ISO9001 quality system to ensure the required standards are constantly met.

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