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Preventing Slip, Trip, and Fall Hazards with Effective Labeling


Industrial environments often contain slip, trip, and fall hazards that can lead to unintended injuries for workers and visitors. These risks are frequently associated with machinery featuring moving parts like rollers, gears, belt drives, and conveyors. The consequences of these hazards can be severe, including hand injuries, mangled fingers, scalp injuries, and even amputations.

Clarion Safety’s slip, trip, and fall hazard labels help manufacturers alert individuals to these dangers at the point of risk. These labels function similarly to other machinery safety labels, promoting awareness and actively contributing to injury prevention.

What Are Slip, Trip, and Fall Hazards?

  • Slip: A slip occurs when there is too little friction between a person's foot and the walking surface. This can cause a loss of balance, often resulting in a fall. Slips commonly happen due to wet, oily, or otherwise slick surfaces.
  • Trip: A trip happens when a person's foot strikes an object or uneven surface, causing a loss of balance. Trips typically occur due to obstacles, clutter, or inconsistent flooring heights.
  • Fall: A fall is the result of a person losing their balance and being unable to recover. Falls may follow slips or trips, but can also occur independently -- for example, from elevated surfaces without adequate guarding.

Common Sources of Slip, Trip, and Fall Injuries

Hazards in the workplace can include surfaces that should not be stepped on, slippery areas that lead to liquid spills, and elevated equipment like conveyors that pose risks when climbed or walked on. Additionally, the presence of equipment may compound the danger of a slip, trip, or fall in a working environment. The importance of alerting people to these hazard sources, and the consequences of inattentiveness is especially heightened in such situations.

Slips, trips, and falls occur due to the interplay of friction, momentum, and gravity. Slips result from a lack of traction between footwear and the walking surface, often caused by moving too quickly, not paying attention, or using inappropriate personal protective equipment. Trips happen when an obstacle or uneven surface disrupts motion. Falls typically occur when balance is lost and recovery is impossible due to height or surface conditions.

Injury Impact and Design-Based Mitigation

While seemingly avoidable, fall hazards still account for more workplace fatalities than any other reason. Slips, trips, and falls can result in sprains, strains, fractures, head trauma, spinal injuries, and more. Landing awkwardly or striking the head on a hard surface can lead to severe consequences, necessitating medical attention and potential long-term effects.

Risk mitigation includes thoughtful equipment design such as installing drip pans, raised or lipped edges, integrated exhaust ventilation, and - critically - the use of high-visibility labels to guide safe behavior, alert the user to hazard sources, and clearly mark restricted or hazardous areas.

If you need support identifying the right labeling solution for your environment, our safety experts are here to help. Contact Our Team to get started.

Preventing Slip, Trip, and Fall Hazards with Effective Labeling


Industrial environments often contain slip, trip, and fall hazards that can lead to unintended injuries for workers and visitors. These risks are frequently associated with machinery featuring moving parts like rollers, gears, belt drives, and conveyors. The consequences of these hazards can be severe, including hand injuries, mangled fingers, scalp injuries, and even amputations.

Clarion Safety’s slip, trip, and fall hazard labels help manufacturers alert individuals to these dangers at the point of risk. These labels function similarly to other machinery safety labels, promoting awareness and actively contributing to injury prevention.

What Are Slip, Trip, and Fall Hazards?

  • Slip: A slip occurs when there is too little friction between a person's foot and the walking surface. This can cause a loss of balance, often resulting in a fall. Slips commonly happen due to wet, oily, or otherwise slick surfaces.
  • Trip: A trip happens when a person's foot strikes an object or uneven surface, causing a loss of balance. Trips typically occur due to obstacles, clutter, or inconsistent flooring heights.
  • Fall: A fall is the result of a person losing their balance and being unable to recover. Falls may follow slips or trips, but can also occur independently -- for example, from elevated surfaces without adequate guarding.

Common Sources of Slip, Trip, and Fall Injuries

Hazards in the workplace can include surfaces that should not be stepped on, slippery areas that lead to liquid spills, and elevated equipment like conveyors that pose risks when climbed or walked on. Additionally, the presence of equipment may compound the danger of a slip, trip, or fall in a working environment. The importance of alerting people to these hazard sources, and the consequences of inattentiveness is especially heightened in such situations.

Slips, trips, and falls occur due to the interplay of friction, momentum, and gravity. Slips result from a lack of traction between footwear and the walking surface, often caused by moving too quickly, not paying attention, or using inappropriate personal protective equipment. Trips happen when an obstacle or uneven surface disrupts motion. Falls typically occur when balance is lost and recovery is impossible due to height or surface conditions.

Injury Impact and Design-Based Mitigation

While seemingly avoidable, fall hazards still account for more workplace fatalities than any other reason. Slips, trips, and falls can result in sprains, strains, fractures, head trauma, spinal injuries, and more. Landing awkwardly or striking the head on a hard surface can lead to severe consequences, necessitating medical attention and potential long-term effects.

Risk mitigation includes thoughtful equipment design such as installing drip pans, raised or lipped edges, integrated exhaust ventilation, and - critically - the use of high-visibility labels to guide safe behavior, alert the user to hazard sources, and clearly mark restricted or hazardous areas.

If you need support identifying the right labeling solution for your environment, our safety experts are here to help. Contact Our Team to get started.

  • Machine safety signs and labels play an essential part in risk reduction, and can help you meet OSHA requirements. It’s important to consider the latest ANSI and ISO standards and today’s best practices for safety communication and risk reduction when selecting labels for your application.

    You can rely on Clarion Safety’s ANSI, ISO, and OSHA warnings expertise for help. We specialize in supplying product manufacturers and workplaces with the most up-to-date, standards compliant labels. In fact, over the past 30+ years, we’ve helped to write the standards you want to meet.

    With Clarion Safety warning label products, you can select from a variety of label format options (multi-symbol and text, symbol only, symbol and text, and wordless formatted labels) as well as symbol options to best fit the potential hazard. Keep in mind that the use of symbols in warnings and instructions is essential to the ISO 3864-2 standards and is encouraged in the ANSI Z535.4 standards. Our labels use internationally recognized, standardized ISO 7010 or ISO 7010-styled symbols.

    Do you have questions on risk or hazard assessments? Our engineers at our subsidiary, Machine Safety Specialists (MSS), and our warnings experts at Clarion Safety can work independently, or with you and your team to ensure your machinery is effectively labeled and fully complies with U.S. and/or international standards. If you need assistance ensuring your products or machinery are properly labeled and fully compliant with the applicable U.S. and international safety standards, contact us today.

  • At Clarion Safety, we understand the importance of safety label durability. Labels need to stand up to your product’s expected environment of use, such as exposure to UV, high temperatures, or chemicals. Potential accidents – and your company’s liability exposure – depend on your label material choices. We offer the finest adhesives, base materials and overlaminates, including premium quality 3M materials.

    Our high-quality slip, trip, and fall labels have been developed and tested to withstand abrasive chemical washdowns, water, heat, and strong ultraviolet light. We have a variety of standard material options available, including options for both indoor and outdoor use. If the standard choices that you see don’t meet your requirements, we’re standing by to find a solution; we offer a wide range of custom material options.


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