ANSI A1264 slip and trip prevention standards cover safety requirements for walking space and stairs/handrail systems. The most popular standard listed here is ANSI/ASSE A1264.1, the safety requirements for every conceivable workplace surface in the modern world.
This standard sets forth safety requirements in industrial and workplace situations for protecting persons in areas/places where danger exists of persons or objects falling from elevated walking and work surfaces such as floor, roof or wall openings, platforms, runways, ramps, fixed stairs or roofs in normal, temporary and emergency conditions.
This technical report discusses the technical aspects, research, legislation, standards activities, and operation of the widely-used Variable Angle Tribometers (VATs) commercially available for testing of walkway surface slip resistance: The Brungraber Mark II/III and the English XL