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Services - ARCHITECTS / NEW CONSTRUCTION / REMODEL AUDITING

ARCHITECTS Quality Assurance Services for Architects, Engineers and Interior Designers Many factors contribute to slips and falls. While these incidences are all too common, Traction Auditing takes a proactive approach to help Architects, Engineers and Interior Designers reduce slip and fall accidents in their design projects. Traction Auditing’s Traction Compliance Testing Service is designed to help architectural firms, interior designers and site and design engineers assess the slip resistance of both proposed flooring selections and completed projects for compliance with ADA, OSHA and national floor testing standards. Our Traction Compliance Testing Service offers a Quality Assurance (QA) program to assist architects and interior design professionals with the selection of appropriate flooring surfaces with pre and post installation testing to ensure a safer environment in the projects they develop. Through this Quality Assurance program, architectural and interior design firms can ensure the flooring selections specified are independently tested to demonstrate compliance with national standards for wet static coefficient of friction. During the post installation audit, Traction Auditing professionals test and examine completed sites for physical conditions, wet SCOF along with usage and traffic flow patterns that may contribute to slip fall claims. We can also recommend possible cost-effective solutions to reduce these hazards. In addition, Traction Auditing also offers a Quality Assurance (QA) program for manufacturers of a wide range of hard surface flooring products. Using ANSI/NFSI B101.1-2009, we can customize a testing program that addresses the needs of any flooring manufacturer. We can also develop custom testing programs that meet the needs of specific markets, industries, and jurisdictions. Core Services for Architects Traction Auditing can work with your architectural and interior design professionals to: • Document compliance of proposed flooring choices with ANSI wet COF standards. • Provide comprehensive, on-site floor surface testing to document compliance of installed flooring with ANSI wet COF standards. • Develop risk management and maintenance strategies with your clients to minimize the frequency and severity of slip and fall incidents after completion. Identification and Assessment By conducting both pre and post installation wet static coefficient of friction tests, and analyzing the data generated, Traction Auditing can help architects, interior designers and their clients identify slip and fall hazards and document compliance with national testing standards. This enables architects and interior designers to minimize the risks to their clients while reducing exposure to future slip and fall litigation. Architects and interior design professionals can document through independent, objective testing that the flooring choices they make will not endanger their clients or their customers and employees in the future. Added Value Traction Auditing brings guidance and leadership to flooring performance testing. As members of the ANSI B 101 main committee, ASTM, NFSI and ASSE, we stay informed on all the latest standards that affect the walkways that are designed into all your projects. By verifying compliance to standards and validating conformity to codes, we help design professionals document the performance of the flooring selections while protecting themselves and their customers from preventable slip and fall accidents and unwarranted litigation. By utilizing the services of Traction Auditing, architectural and design firms can distinguish themselves from other firms as safety conscious and forward thinking. This presents architectural firms with the opportunity to distinguish their services from those that are not safety driven. Traction Auditing’s Traction Compliance Testing Service can play a critical role in the selection process of clients and others who make important decisions about an architectural firms integrity and acceptability Strategies and Improvements for Your Clients Safety does not stop when you hand over the keys. Implementation of an effective slip and fall prevention program requires the right tools, people and communication. Traction Auditing can help your clients risk management team document the ongoing compliance, safety policies and procedures needed to effectively reduce slip and fall incidents within the facilities you have designed and built. We also can aid your clients business in developing the tools needed to document a sound walkway testing and OSHA compliance program. Training and Education Traction Auditing can also assist in providing training for architects, interior designers and engineers. Our professionals are available to conduct onsite training to educate, inform and keep CEU’s up to date. Traction Auditing’s training programs can help you improve standards awareness for all your design employees. Traction Auditing can provide half day training courses to educate your design employees on the dangers of slip and fall hazards and how proper design and testing can reduce future injuries for your clients and litigation for your firm. We also provide information on the latest national standards for slip and fall prevention. Partnering for Safer Designed Facilities Let Traction Auditing, LLC partner with your architectural, engineering and design professionals to help your firm design and build the safest projects possible. Contact Traction Auditing at contactus@tractionauditing.com or 817-230-4004 for a project quote customized to fit your specific needs. Let Traction Auditing demonstrate how to provide your clients a safer project while protecting you, your firm, and your clients from future slip and fall litigation.
CONTRACTORS
With the staggering cost of liability insurance and litigation, in today’s climate it pays a contractor to have objective data documenting the coefficient of friction of flooring projects before they are turned over to the owner. By using Traction Auditing’s Traction Compliance Testing Services and testing to the ANSI/NFSI B101.1 hard surface floor testing standard, flooring contractors can have documented compliance with the most current testing standards. This documentation can minimize expensive callbacks and exposure to litigation. We can work with flooring contractors, general contractors and the architectural and design team to devise a testing plan that fits your needs and schedule.
FACILITY OWNERS
With the high cost of new construction and remodeling, you want to make sure you are getting what you pay for. Before you start the project, have the architect specify that all hard surface flooring systems comply with ANSI/NFSI B101.1-2009 and be independently tested by Traction Auditing, LLC before and after installation. Having objective data that your floors meet the current SCOF requirements of the ANSI/NFSI B101.1 testing standard before employees or customers use them, makes you proactive in providing a safe working environment. This documentation can be used in your defense against slip and fall liability and litigation. Let Traction Auditing, LLC help you in the planning process as well. Working with your architects to help with proper flooring selection and placement, as well as ongoing walkway auditing, saves you money throughout the life of the facility.