Protect yourself, visitors, customers and employees from ice-related slip & fall accidents and injuries by installing an IceAlert System™ this year at your exit doors, on your walkways, and in your parking areas. An IceAlert System™ will lower the personal injury financial risk involved with costly slip & fall accidents.
What makes the IceAlert System™ unique is that it provides an alert by changing colors from white to blue only when the potential for ice actually exists. IceAlert™ allows people to “see” the temperature from some distance away.
Accessories:
Explanatory Signs (12"W X 18"H) (indicates IceAlerts are installed)
(Signs do not change color)
Indoor Transparent Explanatory Sign (7”W x 10”H)
Static cling sign for exit door windows
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- Includes Ice Alert, anti-theft plate and mounting sign
- Available in two configurations.
- A.) 12" (in) post-section bracket Mounts directly to existing posts, columns and walls.
- B.) 6'(ft) Pole - designed for free standing unit ( metal base required )
- Shipped fully assembled, ready to install.
- Here are some basic slip and fall statistics, taken from the National Safety Council and the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
- Over one million people in the United States experience a significant slip, trip, or fall each year.
- Falls account for one quarter of serious injuries in the workplace.
- The most frequently injuries incurred from all are back, wrist, elbow, shoulder, and knee injuries. In general, joint injuries are most common.
- A death from an on-the-job slip and fall is estimated to cost an average of $940,000 - on top of the victim's family's loss and trauma.
- Slips and falls are the third largest cause of workplace injuries.
- Slips and falls are the single most common reason for visits to the emergency room.
- The average cost of a slip and fall injury is $28,000, including medical bills, physical therapy, and missed wages.
- Slips and falls are the number two cause of accident death and disability, following behind automobile accidents.
- Slips and falls lead to 104 million lost workdays per year in North America - that's 4,000 lifetimes!
- Seventy percent of slips and falls occur on level ground.
- Trip and fall injuries cost the US $36 billion each year.
- Slip and fall accidents kill more workers than all other on-the-job fatalities combined.
- 55 percent of those over 40 have suffered a debilitating slip and fall accident during their lifetimes
- An average of 17,000 Americans die from their slip and fall accidents
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