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Many people are in jobs that require a substantial amount of standing in the workplace. Other than the possibility of the repetitive nature of such work, which tends to tediousness, there is the effect of restricted movement that can result in fatigue, …
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Recent research has discovered that participants who stood on their feet for 90 minute periods and were not useing medical floor mats experienced severe discomfort to the feet, legs, and backs. Those who exceeded 90 minutes were inclined to more chroni …
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We started a new page Hot NEW Products a few months ago. And, today, we add a new product to the page: Sweepex Grain Brooms. First of all, I must admit, the product is not strictly speaking new to us. It is a product the business was founded on and hav …
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Offices now tend to be more open, with cubicles and the like, instead of separate offices with their own doors. Also, floors tend to now be wooden ones (maybe even wood laminates) or concrete and treated concrete, with exposed aggregate which are finis …
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People often ask us for our thoughts on whether we recommend mats going into a food processing facility. We do, we highly recommend it, and not simply because we make mats. (Although, of course, there is a little bit of that as well.) People often hesi …
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At AMCO, we supply industrial rubber orthopedic floor matting and industrial anti fatigue floor mats to industries operating in Australia and New Zealand. Our customers include reputed brands like BHP, Coca-Cola, GlaxoSmithKline, Nestle, Parmalat and R …
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At AMCO, we pride ourselves of the quality of our anti fatigue kitchen mats. In the anti fatigue mat offering, Orthomaster is hard to beat. And, it is a mat that is used in many applications, including food preparation and hospitality. In August 2016, …
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If your workplace has lots of swarf and no swarf mats, you will relate to the problems that this involves. And any workshop that is involved with removing material as part of their work process will encounter filings, shavings, turnings, chips and so …
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This chart gives different Shore Hardness values (including comparison in different Shore scales with Shore A as a base reference) to more common items to show the difference in hardness of these materials. In this article we put up some questions and …
READ MOREReading through earlier posts, you can clearly be sure that non slip mats can significantly reduce the risk of slips and falls in retail areas and commercial work areas. We should always remember that any accident at work can directly affect productivi …
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In this post we take another look at non slip mats & anti slip mats. Which mat is best suited for a certain work space or application? This post follows on last month’s article on the placement of non-slip mats around a healthcare or aged care faci …
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In the late 1990s, a laboratory study was conducted by Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction (SMI) at Aalborg University of Denmark. The study focused on the physiological and biomechanical responses to prolonged light repetitive manual work standing on …
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