We can help you prevent slips, trips and falls.

 

In the UK, slips, trips, and falls continue to be the most significant cause of workplace injury, accounting for 30% of all non-fatal workplace injuries in 2025 (https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/assets/docs/hssh2425.pdf).

Though they are often seen as minor incidents, or even funny, these incidents are often serious and can be extremely expensive for an organisation resulting in lost time, reputational damage, and expensive civil claims.

With the correct scientific evidence, simple interventions can have a significant impact on risk, improve safety for the workforce and members of the public, improve defensibility, and reduce business costs significantly.

Rob Shaw is a falls prevention expert with over 20 years’ experience providing scientific expertise to the UK regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), as well as commercial consultancy and training in the UK and internationally.

Rob was the Technical Team Lead for the Falls Prevention Team at HSE.

Our business has expertise and extensive experience in all areas of falls prevention including floor specification, preventing stair falls, planning cleaning practices, selecting appropriate footwear, human factors, and preventing trips.

We offer testing, training and consultancy based on relevant science. Our solutions are focused on your business needs and supported by unrivalled experience investigating falls and identifying effective solutions in almost all industries.

Examples of Our Offerings

All our offerings are tailored to the client to ensure that we find the most effective solutions to their specific slip trip and fall issues. Examples of services offered by Rob Shaw Associates include (but are not limited to):

  • A comprehensive review of falls data to identify common root causes, examples of good practice, areas for improvement, and the most effective next steps for the client.

  • Site-based slip, trip, and fall risk review.

  • Incident investigation.

  • Slip resistance testing of flooring.

  • Stair fall risk assessment.

  • Review or development of company policy documents (for example floor specification documents, stair design documentation, entrance design specifications).

  • A review of the efficacy of current cleaning practices.

  • The provision of guidance on the specification of relevant slip resistant footwear.

  • Development and delivery of bespoke training to staff at all levels of the organisation on preventing slips, trips, and falls.

  • Product development work.

  • Development of video resources for use in employee training.