Slip-resistant footwear to reduce slips among health-care workers: the SSHeW RCT

Cockayne, Sarah; Fairhurst, Caroline; Zand, Michael; Frost, Gillian; Liddle, Mark; Cunningham-Burley, Rachel; Hewitt, Catherine; Iles-Smith, Heather; Green, Lorraine; Bain, Emily; Mogradia, Misbah; Torgerson, David J

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5-star GRIP-rated slip-resistant footwear reduced the incidence of slips in the workplace among NHS health-care workers compared with usual footwear.

Sarah Cockayne , Caroline Fairhurst , Michael Zand , Gillian Frost , Mark Liddle , Rachel Cunningham-Burley , Catherine Hewitt , Heather Iles-Smith , Lorraine Green , Emily Bain , Misbah Mogradia & David J Torgerson .

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Sarah Cockayne ^1,^*, Caroline Fairhurst ¹, Michael Zand ², Gillian Frost ³, Mark Liddle ³, Rachel Cunningham-Burley ¹, Catherine Hewitt ¹, Heather Iles-Smith ⁴, Lorraine Green ⁵, Emily Bain ², Misbah Mogradia ², David J Torgerson ¹

¹ York Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
² Health and Safety Executive, Bootle, UK
³ Health and Safety Executive, Buxton, UK
⁴ Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
⁵ National Institute for Health Research, Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: sarah.cockayne@york.ac.uk

Declared competing interests of authors: Catherine Hewitt declares membership of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Commissioning Committee (2015–20) and previous membership of the HTA Assessment Commissioning Sub-Board (Expression of Interest) (2016–17). Michael Zand, Gillian Frost, Mark Liddle, Emily Bain and Misbah Mogradia declare that the Health and Safety Executive run the GRIP rating scheme, which was used to identify the footwear and manufacturer used in the trial, and that Shoes for Crews (Europe) Ltd paid the Health and Safety Executive for testing of footwear under the GRIP rating scheme. David J Torgerson declares that he is Director of York Trials Unit, which receives clinical trials unit funding from NIHR, has previously been a member of various boards [a member of the NHS HTA Commissioning Board (from 2007 to 2010), a member of the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research Board (from 2007 to 2011) and a member of the MRC methodology research panel (from 2011 to 2013)] and was a member of the Clinical Trials Unit Standing Advisory Committee (2010–14).

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