How Updated Facility Flooring Benefits All Occupants at Your Industrial Facility

How Updat­ed Facil­i­ty Floor­ing Ben­e­fits All Occu­pants at Your Indus­tri­al Facility

If it has been a lit­tle while since you last updat­ed your facility’s floor­ing, then you should strong­ly con­sid­er doing so. Whether you com­plete­ly replace the indus­tri­al floor­ing or sim­ply refresh your exist­ing floors with prop­er main­te­nance and coat­ing, you will see immense ben­e­fits for your busi­ness. Impor­tant­ly, those ben­e­fits aren’t just for you as the facil­i­ty man­ag­er or own­er. Every sin­gle occu­pant of your indus­tri­al facil­i­ty will also ben­e­fit from these updates. 

Indoor Air Quality

Although it may not be the first thing to come to mind, your indus­tri­al floor­ing can have a siz­able impact on air qual­i­ty. Specif­i­cal­ly, this is the case for floor­ing that doesn’t con­tain VOCs (volatile organ­ic com­pounds) and formalde­hyde. Whether or not your cur­rent floor­ing has either of these sub­stances, make sure your floor­ing updates won’t include them. 

A more obvi­ous con­nec­tion between your facility’s floor­ing and air qual­i­ty is the pres­ence of mold. Build­ings of any age can devel­op mold, with cer­tain types of floors espe­cial­ly prone to devel­op­ing them. Car­pet is one exam­ple, and while you may not have car­pet­ing in indus­tri­al areas, office spaces may fre­quent­ly use this type of flooring. 

But near­ly any type of floor­ing can devel­op mold if not prop­er­ly installed to be mois­ture-resis­tant. If there is mois­ture under the sur­face, you will need pro­fes­sion­als to remove the exist­ing floor­ing, mit­i­gate the mois­ture, and install new indus­tri­al floor­ing. These coat­ings are espe­cial­ly impor­tant in lab­o­ra­to­ries and kitchens where mois­ture is prevalent. 

Even some­thing as sim­ple as choos­ing epoxy floor­ing or coat­ings can improve air qual­i­ty by pre­vent­ing water accu­mu­la­tion. That pre­vents bac­te­r­i­al growth, as well as mold and mildew. 

Aes­thet­ics

Sim­ply plac­ing a new coat­ing on a floor will make it look fresh, improv­ing its aes­thet­ics. With this update, your space will look more pro­fes­sion­al and improve the impres­sion of your brand.

Even bet­ter, mod­ern floors come in a vari­ety of col­ors and with var­i­ous dec­o­ra­tive options that can enhance their appeal. These options enable you to choose the appro­pri­ate col­or and style of floor­ing for your space, match­ing the rest of the décor.

Safe­ty

Adding appro­pri­ate indus­tri­al floor coat­ings to your facil­i­ty can also be a mat­ter of safe­ty. Specif­i­cal­ly, the right coat­ings will ensure that the floor has an anti-slip sur­face. Non-slip floor­ing is cru­cial for any loca­tion, espe­cial­ly if your facil­i­ty has heavy foot traffic.

Old floor­ing may be uneven or cracked, pos­ing a risk for slips, trips, and falls. That can be a major haz­ard and affect the safe­ty of your work­ers. It can also hurt your facility’s rep­u­ta­tion and lead to worker’s com­pen­sa­tion claims. 

Because new­er, well-main­tained floor­ing reduces the safe­ty risks to occu­pants, you may notice a drop in insur­ance pre­mi­ums when you update your floors. 

Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty

By improv­ing the safe­ty of your facil­i­ty, new floor­ing may increase pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. If your employ­ees feel safe in their work­place, they can have a pos­i­tive atti­tude towards work and be less stressed. Improved aes­thet­ics can also be a breath of fresh air for your employ­ees, encour­ag­ing productivity. 

On a prac­ti­cal note, prop­er indus­tri­al floor­ing will pro­vide com­fort and sup­port to work­ers who are on their feet all day. The right floor­ing can reduce aches and pains from phys­i­cal work, boost­ing pro­duc­tiv­i­ty in even the most phys­i­cal­ly demand­ing jobs. 

Employ­ee Morale

The improved employ­ee morale from com­fort­able, safe, and aes­thet­i­cal­ly pleas­ing floor­ing may also help you retain employ­ees. A well-main­tained facil­i­ty reflects well on your man­age­ment skills, encour­ag­ing cur­rent work­ers to stay and reduc­ing your need to hire replacements.

Vis­i­bil­i­ty

Your facility’s floor­ing can even improve vis­i­bil­i­ty. Vital parts and mate­ri­als that fall on the floor will be easy to spot. Switch­ing to a dif­fer­ent col­or or style of floor­ing may improve that vis­i­bil­i­ty and reduce FOD.

Easy Main­te­nance

If your floor is start­ing to show its age, you may already be spend­ing a lot of time and effort to main­tain it. With old floor­ing, spills tend to pool and become stains. Cracks and dents may also col­lect dust and debris.

By replac­ing your floor­ing and choos­ing the right mate­r­i­al, you can eas­i­ly clean and main­tain it. You can even ask floor­ing pro­fes­sion­als which mate­ri­als are the eas­i­est to clean. Epoxy indus­tri­al floor coat­ings, for exam­ple, are imper­vi­ous to a major­i­ty of chem­i­cal spills. They can also resist oil and water leaks. Because many floors sim­ply require sweep­ing, mop­ping, or vac­u­um­ing, you can focus your efforts on oth­er main­te­nance tasks. 

Dura­bil­i­ty

Replac­ing your floor­ing will also ensure that you have durable and long-last­ing sur­faces to work with. By plan­ning and bud­get­ing for your floor repairs now, you pre­vent future unfore­seen dam­age and safe­ty haz­ards relat­ed to floor­ing. This also gives you the flex­i­bil­i­ty to plan a floor replace­ment to fit your facility’s budget. 

New con­crete or epoxy floor­ings will last a long time with prop­er use. They can eas­i­ly han­dle heavy loads with­out dam­age. You will have one less thing to wor­ry about, as you know your floor can han­dle heavy use. 

Legal Require­ments

There is also a com­pli­ance aspect in indus­tri­al floor­ing. Depend­ing on your indus­try, you need to com­ply with spe­cif­ic legal require­ments, such as anti-slip or mois­ture-resis­tant floor­ing. Meet­ing those require­ments pre­vents fines, down­time, a dam­aged rep­u­ta­tion, and oth­er con­se­quences that can severe­ly affect your business.

Bonus: Instal­la­tion Is Faster Than You Realize

Even with all these ben­e­fits, you may be hes­i­tant to update your indus­tri­al floor­ing due to sched­ul­ing con­cerns. But instal­la­tion can be much quick­er than you real­ize, espe­cial­ly when you hire expe­ri­enced professionals. 

In fact, com­pa­nies like Kaloutas have a ​“No work stop­page guar­an­tee.” The instal­la­tion will work around your sched­ule, so you don’t have to dis­con­tin­ue oper­a­tions. You can stick to your dead­lines and not wor­ry about lost funds from closures. 

Which Floor­ing Is Best for Industries?

Once you decide to update your facil­i­ty floor­ing, you will like­ly ask your­self, ​“Which floor­ing is best for indus­tries of dif­fer­ent kinds?” Although the answer will be based entire­ly on the kind of indus­try, you’ll find that epoxy floor­ing is typ­i­cal­ly an excel­lent option because of its exten­sive list of benefits.

Here’s the quick answer to the ques­tion, ​“What are the ben­e­fits of epoxy floor­ing?” It is durable, non-slip, easy to main­tain, and attractive. 

A good floor­ing com­pa­ny will offer more than just epoxy floor­ing; they will have options for all indus­tries. You can con­sult with them no mat­ter which indus­try you are in, whether in life sci­ences, tech­nol­o­gy, aero­space, man­u­fac­tur­ing, or anoth­er sector. 

Find a Com­pa­ny to Han­dle All Your Indus­tri­al Floor­ing Needs

Expe­ri­ence all the above ben­e­fits whether you decide to refresh your exist­ing floor­ing or install new floors. To make the most of your floor­ing, choose a com­pa­ny that can han­dle all your indus­tri­al floor­ing needs. Kaloutas cleans, pol­ish­es, repairs joints, installs joints, coats floors, and more. It has installed more than 10 mil­lion square feet of resur­fac­ers, pol­ished con­crete floors, and indus­tri­al floor coatings. 

Kaloutas can han­dle oth­er facil­i­ty main­te­nance tasks along­side updates in floor­ing. From fire­proof­ing to indus­tri­al clean­ing or indus­tri­al paint­ing, a sin­gle com­pa­ny can do it all for you. This reduces the num­ber of con­tacts you need, the invoic­es you receive, and the stress asso­ci­at­ed with man­ag­ing mul­ti­ple projects at once. 

Let Kaloutas take care of all your facil­i­ty’s floor­ing needs. Con­tact us today, and we’ll be hap­py to dis­cuss how we can best serve you.