Other "Floor Safety" Scams in the USA

ASTM D2047, UL 410 and ANSI B101.1 are today's most heinous, worthless, and misleading scams when it comes to "safety assessments" for flooring. All three use static coefficient of friction (SCOF) test methods, which have been shown in numerous published studies to be useless in assessing a floor's safety. That's why ASTM C1028 was withdrawn, along with all the other SCOF tests, such as ASTM F489 (for the James Machine), ASTM F1677 (for the Brungraber Mark II, which is identical in every scientific way tot the Brungraber Mark IIIB VIT), ASTM F1679 (for the English XL), and the original ANSI B101.1:2009 (for the BOT-3000E).

ASTM D2047 measures how slippery a floor is to someone who is standing still on a clean floor. It figures out if someone will slip while looking at their phone on a clean and dry floor. Sound like a scam? Yup. That's a scam. This is in no way a "safety test" because it's measuring a condition in which not a single person (or animal, for that matter) has ever suffered a slip and fall injury. ASTM D2047 is perhaps the most disgusting scam the tile industry in the USA has ever pulled, and they've been pulling it for 77 years! UL 410 is the EXACT same test, so shame on them!! Scamming people into believing what they do is a "safety test" means this company should never be trusted for anything.

ASTM F1677 (for the Brunbgraber Mark IIIB) and ASTM F1679 (for the English XL) are still used today in courtrooms to say slippery floors aren't slippery for insurance companies. The test methods were both withdrawn over 20 years ago, but the unscrupulous "liars for hire" that work for insurance companies saying ice rinks aren't slippery don't care. They dance around and make excuses for their test methods being withdrawn and them not having a test method published in any of the other 196 countries on earth, and they WIN, WIN, WIN at all costs for the insurance comapnies. And they make a FANTASTIC living lying under oath for them!

ANSI B101.1:2009 was allowed to expire in 2014 when the guy making the machine used to run the test (the BOT-3000E) figured out that no floors were slippery according to that test. He figured nobody would buy a device that was doing a scam test, so he promoted its ability to run dynamic coefficient of friction (DCOF) tests instead. The National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI), because they are a guy and some of his followers who make a FANTASTIC living saying floors aren't slippery and selling "NFSI high traction" ratings for flooring and floor products, decided to make a BOT-3000E painted yellow (essentially) and then re-publish B101.1 under their own name - NFSI B101.1. So now they can make money off ANYONE using a scam SCOF test they made up to say slippery floors aren't slippery. The Tile Council of North America (TCNA) continues to promote testing with the highly-flawed BOT-3000E and their ANSI A326.3 test, which does a great job saying almost every floor on earth is not slippery.

Want reliable floor slip resistance testing that is internationally approved and has a published test method in over 50 nations and has been in use for over 50 years around the world? Then you're looking for a pendulum DCOF test. In the USA, that's called ASTM E303-22.