Have you even been in a major city where there is tons of road and sidewalk construction and seen steel diamond plate or smooth road plates covering unsafe conditions?  Typically the plates are covering an opening in the roadway for water, sewer, gas electrical, replacement, improvement or new construction trenches.  When placing a diamond or smooth plate on a roadway or sidewalk they need to be secured to the pavement for safety of motorist, bicyclist and pedestrians. If the plates are not secured they could cause serious injury or death.

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Slip Resistance:  Set Pattern or No Set Pattern?There are many alternatives to diamond floor plates that offer just as much, if not more slip resistance. Slip resistant treatments and options range from quick fixes to more industrial permanent solutions.  Quick fixes are typically taped-on products to painted-on products that need to be replaced after a certain amount of wear.  In contrast, solutions that are more permanent range from diamond floor plate to smooth metal plates that are coated with an all-metal slip resistant surface. 

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According to an article entitled “Preventing Driver Slips and Falls” by the National Association of Wholesaler – Distributors, “Extruded safety steps do provide an excellent non-slip surface, but wet or oily ‘diamond plate’ can be almost as slippery as a flat surface.” Even though diamond plate flooring, such as aluminum diamond plate, contains a pattern of raised diamonds that act as a slip resistant tread to prevent slip and fall injuries, it does not provide the same slip resistant coverage as coated non slip surfaces.