ViSpa Anti Slip Carpet for Histology Labs

Floor matting helps prevent slips and falls from paraffin wax on floor

Anti-Slip Floor Mat for Histology Labs

This durable vinyl loop mat traps paraffin that causes slips and falls, providing:

• a safer environment
• more productive area by reducing fatigue
• easily cleaned
• resistant to common chemicals found in histology labs

Histology labs have dealt with the problem of dripping paraffin for years. In the case of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, this problem resulted in an injury to a surgeon not even in the lab.

“That’s pretty much how it started, we had a surgeon who fell in the hall and broke his wrist and broke his wrist,” said Gwen Goss, lab manager of anatomic pathology at the Cleveland Clinic. “The surgeon slipped in the hall on paraffin that had been tracked there from the lab, so he wasn’t even in the lab. We contacted Martinson-Nicholls for matting to eliminate the slippery floors.”

Martinson-Nicholls, studied the problem and came up with a solution--larger versions of ViSpa floor mats that were being used for other applications in medical, chemical and industrial laboratories. Made of vinyl, the non-woven, continuous filament-bonded ViSpa matting withstands the constant abuse of foot traffic, paraffin spillage, and even corrosive, including sulfuric acid.

The continuous filament-bonded matting traps paraffin-embedded cuttings, while a special surfactant prevents the wax from sticking to the surface. For cleaning, the matting can be shaken, vacuumed, or rinsed with water.

"We used everything, chromic acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, multiple stains," Goss said of the testing. "ViSpa floor matting stood up against it all."