The safest, most durable anti-slip investment for any industry.
Last week Haagh Protection constructed stainless steel Vigil Antislip Stairnosings on several stairs at a big industrial abbatoir in the Netherlands. With all steps slipfree again, all personell can use the stairs safely at this company.
In our view safety cannot be compromised on stairways. Vigil Antislip Stair Nosings offer high visibility whilst both ascending or descending. Vigil Antislip Stair or Bull Nosings (in different coarse garadations) can be fitted permanently in seconds without the risk of being loosened by vibrations or heavy use.
The Vigil Antislip industrial range provides the hardest wearing, longest lasting antislip properties available in the market. Fully Guaranteed to maintain 100% of non-slip properties, to resist scuffing and delamination, and to remain impervious to specified fluids and contaminants for a minimum of ten years.
The Vigil Antislip range is ideal for the oil & gas, manufacturing, offshore and marine, construction-, processing- and fabrication industries. Also a complete custom solutions service is available, and all products can be designed to aid in evacuation directional marking.
Please contact us at info@ haagh-protection.com or tel. +31 (0)161-226559 for more information, quotation or free samples.
A growing number of companies use fibreglass as the foundation, due mainly to the low cost.
Although resistant to corrosion, these products do not normally last long, particularly with stair nosings where they tend to break along the nosing’s leading edge. The leading edge of these FRP products is an intrinsic weak point. Once damaged, the nosing will need to be replaced, as they tend to become loose and an accident is imminent.
You take substantial risks if you decide to purchase cheap, low quality anti-slip equipment, including:
Premature failure.
Ongoing replacement costs.
Creation of unintended secondary hazards.
Ongoing injuries between replacement.
Downtime during replacements.
Being labelled incompetent & losing face.
Vigil Antislip -Class One- Safety Products are manufactured to the highest standards using the most durable materials available. Each product comes with a written Ten Year Replacement warranty. So your purchase is risk-free and will continue to provide the highest quality slip resistance. Many times longer than provided by every other anti-slip supplier.
Another disadvantage of GRP antislip is that to achieve sufficient structural stability. These nosings are often very thick, creating a possible trip hazard by catching the heel while descending the stairway or walking along a walkway. Manufacturers overcome this problem by manufacturing the stair nosings with a depth close to that of the step underneath. This unnecessarily inflates the cost. And it is also then often necessary to have the stair nosings in two colours. Safety yellow at the front of the nosing and black at the back.
It is also a property of these products that they bow up in the centre when fastened along the edges, creating a potential trip hazard. Manufacturers normally purchase the angled foundation from a fibreglass extrusion company. In most cases this is manufactured using polyester resins. These are not resistant to petroleum products. To counter this, they apply their antislip surface using a chemical resistant epoxy resin system. This means that the surface only is resistant to petroleum products. It creates another issue because polyester resins and epoxy resins are not compatible. Delamination may occur over time. From our experience, every manufacturer of FRP products uses quartz or fused alumina as aggregate. Quartz (hardness: 820 kg/ mm2) and fused alumina (hardness: 1800kg / mm2) are comparatively soft when compared to silicone carbide. This is used in Vigil antislip (hardness: 2480 kg / mm2). FRP antislip will wear very quickly and the aggregate will often pull out of the resin system which partly encapsulates the grains.
A number of competitive products we have tested show that most of them do not have long term resistance to solvents present in petroleum products. For the complete test results and more information please contact us via info@haagh-protection.com or tel. +31-(0)161-226559
