Step safety vinyl

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Step safety vinyl

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Introduction
The Forbo Step brochure focuses on safety, design, and confidence in their safety vinyl flooring products. It presents a range of slip-resistant flooring solutions suitable for various environments, ensuring both aesthetic appeal and functional performance.
Your Steps; Sure and Safe
Surestep products provide sustainable R10 slip resistance, ideal for general walking areas with increased slip risk, such as corridors and washrooms. Safestep products are designed for areas with higher slip risks due to contamination, like professional kitchens and industrial settings. Wetroom flooring offers slip resistance for continuously wet areas, accommodating both barefoot and footwear traffic.
Slip Resistance Explained
The brochure details slip resistance standards, including EN13845 and DIN51097, ensuring durable slip resistance for various usage intensities. The R-scale, associated with DIN 51130, categorizes products from R10 to R12 based on slip resistance measured on a ramp with oil.
Step: A Versatile Performance Product
Step flooring features a compact calendered backing for high load tolerance and environmental performance, with 70% recycled material. The upper layers contain recycled Step Crystals for enhanced slip resistance and easier cleaning, while PUR protection ensures a silk matt finish for better appearance retention and maintenance.
Safety Flooring Classification Guide
The guide categorizes flooring solutions based on slip risk levels and typical application areas, such as general workrooms, kitchens, and wet areas. It provides recommendations for using Surestep and Safestep products in various environments to ensure compliance with safety standards.
Surestep and Safestep Collections
Surestep Original and Star offer a variety of colors and designs with R10 slip resistance. Surestep Wood, Stone, Mineral, and Texture provide natural designs with Step Crystals for slip resistance. Safestep R11 and R12 are designed for areas with higher slip risks, offering enhanced slip resistance and hygienic standards.
Floorcare / Installation
The brochure includes guidelines for the installation and maintenance of Forbo Step products, highlighting the importance of proper care to maintain slip resistance and appearance.
Sustainable Safety from Forbo Flooring
Forbo emphasizes the environmental performance of their products, utilizing recycled content and components to enhance sustainability.
Technical Details Step Collection
Technical specifications for the Step collection are provided, detailing the construction and performance characteristics of the flooring products.
More Forbo Flooring
The brochure concludes with information on other Forbo flooring solutions, showcasing the versatility and comprehensive nature of their product offerings.
Overview: The document is a technical brochure from Forbo Step, detailing their slip-resistant vinyl flooring collections, including Surestep and Safestep ranges. It highlights the products' specifications, installation procedures, cleaning and maintenance guidelines, and sustainability initiatives.
Product Specifications: The Forbo Step collections, including Surestep and Safestep, offer slip resistance ratings up to R12, suitable for various environments, including wet areas. The products meet EN - ISO 10582 & EN 13845 standards, with a total thickness of 2.0 mm and a wear layer thickness of 0.7 mm. They are designed for heavy commercial and light industrial use, with a high recycled content in the backing layer.
Installation Guidelines: The brochure provides detailed instructions for installing Forbo Step flooring, including the use of matching welding rods for seams, adhesive recommendations, and installation direction advice. It emphasizes the importance of using pressure-sensitive adhesives for covings and stair nosings.
Cleaning and Maintenance: Forbo Step flooring is designed for easy cleaning and maintenance, featuring a durable PUR Pearl surface. The document outlines procedures for cleaning after installation, regular cleaning, and periodic maintenance, emphasizing the use of neutral detergents and avoiding seals or polishes that could reduce slip resistance.
Sustainability Initiatives: Forbo highlights its commitment to sustainability through internal recycling of production waste, increased recycled content, and the use of Step Crystals for improved visual clarity and reduced cleaning requirements. The products are AgBB compliant, produced with green electricity, and feature water-based inks.
Additional Forbo Products: The brochure briefly mentions other Forbo flooring solutions, including Eternal project vinyl, Allura luxury vinyl tiles, Marmoleum linoleum, Flotex flocked flooring, and Tessera carpet tiles, each offering unique design and functional benefits.
Overview: The document discusses the benefits and offerings of Forbo Flooring Systems, a part of the Forbo Group, which is a global leader in flooring, bonding, and movement systems. The company provides a comprehensive range of flooring products suitable for both commercial and residential markets.
Entrance Flooring: Coral entrance floors are highlighted as an effective solution for absorbing moisture and scraping dirt from shoes and wheels, which helps in reducing cleaning and maintenance costs while maintaining the appearance of interior floors.
Product Range: Forbo offers high-quality linoleum, vinyl, textile, flocked, and entrance flooring products. These products are designed to combine functionality, color, and design, providing total flooring solutions for various environments.
Contact Information: The document provides contact details for Forbo Flooring Systems in different regions, including the Baltic States, Czech & Slovak Republic, Middle-East, Africa, Turkey, Greece, French overseas, and other countries.
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Safety. Design. Confidence. safety vinyl

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Safety. Design. Confidence. • afety vinyl flooring with sustainable slip resistance for S the guaranteed life of the product. • he widest offering and contemporary visuals of PUR T finished R10, R11 and R12 safety flooring. • it for purpose in both visual, low lifecycle costs and non F slip performance, the total collection offers solutions for all major specified slip resistant areas. Introduction Safety. Design. Confidence. 2 Your steps; Sure and Safe 3 Slip resistance explained 4 Step: a versatile performance product 5 Safety flooring classification guide for commercial and industrial areas...

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Your steps; Sure and Safe surestep Sustainable R10 slip resistance: all Surestep products, are non-slip particle enhanced and can be applied in all types of general walking areas, where an increased slip risk may occur. Surestep offers lasting performance and keeps looking good with easy regular cleaning. Safestep products are applicable in areas where a higher slip risk is identified because of incidental, accidental or continuous active contamination or the floor. In these areas it is simply not possible to prevent spillage, due to the type of work environment. The intensity of the activity...

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Slip resistance explained SLIP RESISTANT NORMS Surestep Laguna Safestep Aqua A sustainable, lifetime performance as a result of particles throughout the matrix of the product is the requirement to comply with EN 13845. This standard specifies the requirements that must be met to ensure durable slip resistance in varying degrees of usage intensity. All Step floors comply with EN13845. Surestep Laguna (B) Safestep Aqua (C) All Surestep R10 Safestep R11 Safestep R12 Safestep Aqua R10 For products used in barefoot areas, DIN51097 applies. The testing method is similar to that of the DIN 51130, but...

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Step: a versatile high performance product Forbo’s engineered layered construction of all Step products offers the best in heterogeneous product properties delivering optimal Step is: The performance of Step starts with its compact calendered backing that allows high static and dynamic loads and minimizes residual indentation. In addition the backing of our Step products is consisting for 70% out of controlled recycled material, delivering environmental performance as well. The flexible reinforced glass fleece offers optimal dimension stability. The important slip resistant performance is delivered...

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What to use where Forbo’s new Step safety flooring collection provides a complete range of floor coverings that are designed to meet safety requirements in a wide range of applications. All products in the Step collection meet and exceed strict Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and European standard requirements. General and spillage areas with increased (a higher) slip risk • General workrooms areas • Wet cellars in food and beverage production • Kitchens: thawing, coffee related, hotels and station • Acceptance for packaged (meat) goods • Areas for packaged goods • General storage areas • Parking...

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surestep® laguna safestep® aqua Light industrial usage Wetroom areas, predominantly barefoot use, but also accessed by footwear Spa’s, showers and swimming pool areas • Production and processing of most dairy products • Manufacturing of bakery and associated products • Slaughter and meat processing • Vegetable processing • Gourmet kitchens over 100 meals a day • Cold rooms for unpackaged goods • Paint shops with wet grinding • Ceramic industry: casting and glazing area • Wastewater treatment plants • Next to outdoor loading and oblique ramps, fuelling areas • Manufacture of margarine, edible...

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surestep Surestep Original The fresher looking alternative to the conventional safety flooring visual, hardwearing 100% PVC wearlayer Improved cleaner, brighter visual. A palette of 24 colours, build up in coordinated colour gradations of saturation/hue/lightness. Surestep Star Innovative, muted and sophisticated. The holographic chips adds colour to the natural and neutral colour series. Colour tones of today, all with hints of grey, provide a uniquely refined identity. 100% PVC wear layer, with added holographic large chip. Improved cleaner visual. Particles colour match the terrazzo/ natural...

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Step safety vinyl-10

surestep Surestep Wood Natural designs, realistic and close to nature, for areas with a warm ambience. The popular Wood designs are included and all have a clear and sharp wood visual with the practically invisible ‘Step Crystals’ for slip resistance. New are the abstract woods, allover designs for both very small (pantry) and larger applications. Matching with other Forbo wood or stone designs in sheet or plank/ tile formats. Surestep Wood Decibel All colourways are also available as Surestep Wood Decibel on request, which offers 17db impact sound reduction. A combination of classical woods...

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safestep Safestep R11 A range of 8 colours, matching the target applications - including professional kitchens - for hygienic and clean appearance. All available R11 colours match with a Surestep collection item. Like with Original, and compared to other safety flooring on the market, the amount of black particles is reduced to realize a friendlier floor visual. A combination of high slip resistance and high hygienic standards, ideal for areas with a higher general need for enhanced slip resistance. Safe and long lasting and with PUR Pearl coating for easy cleaning and maintenance. R11, ESf,...

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This is innovation in wetroom flooring and Forbo at its best when combining functionality with design. Two completely new products brought in a fresh, contemporary and suitable for application, colour scheme. Safestep Aqua This modern, organic design with a new and unique embossing shape is designed for barefoot (and soft soled shoes) areas. A flexible product, that can easily be installed to the specific requirements of these areas; but most importantly will perform on the highest barefoot class. The clean and modern collection content fits the hygienic and sensitive requirements of the application...

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