A randomised trial involving 4,553 NHS staff found that offering five-star HSE GRIP footwear reduced the rate of self-reported workplace slips by 37%.

Compares historical workplace footwear models using the HSL ramp, illustrating the substantial range of measured grip performance across available designs.

Assesses the quality of slip-resistance information provided to buyers by footwear and flooring suppliers and the usefulness of that information for choosing safe products.

The published trial protocol sets out the SSHeW research question, randomisation, planned outcomes and safeguards before the results were known.

An accessible four-page summary of the SSHeW randomised footwear trial, written to explain the intervention and results to a general audience.