WETROOM: Accolade Safe

Aquaplane Resistant Vinyl Flooring for Commercial Environments

Armstrong Accolade Safe gives hospitals, healthcare facilities, aged care, hospitality venues, and light industrial environments an aquaplane resistant vinyl flooring that rethinks how slip resistance works and delivers better results because of it. Specifically, conventional safety flooring relies on silicone chips embedded into the surface to create grip, which creates maintenance challenges and surface irregularities that affect both cleaning and long-term appearance. Accolade Safe eliminates that compromise entirely, reducing aquaplaning and aiding slip resistance through a fundamentally different construction that doesn’t depend on silicone chips to perform.

No Silicone Chips – A Better Approach to Slip Resistance

The silicone chip approach to safety flooring has been the industry standard for decades. But it comes with real downsides that facilities teams in healthcare and aged care environments deal with every day. Specifically, silicone chips create surface texture that traps contaminants, makes thorough cleaning more difficult. It degrades in appearance over time as the chips wear unevenly under traffic. Furthermore, in hygiene-critical environments like hospitals and aged care facilities, a surface that resists thorough cleaning is a surface that creates infection control risks. As a result, Armstrong developed Accolade Safe to deliver aquaplane resistant vinyl flooring performance without those trade-offs, a floor that reduces aquaplaning, aids slip resistance, and stays cleaner and better-looking across its service life than conventional silicone chip alternatives.

Recommended for Healthcare, Aged Care and Hospitality

Beyond its construction innovation, Accolade Safe suits the specific environments where safety flooring carries the most consequence. Specifically, hospitals and healthcare facilities need a floor that handles wet conditions, supports infection control protocols, and meets slip resistance standards without creating maintenance burdens. Aged care environments carry the additional requirement of protecting residents with reduced mobility and balance, where the cost of a slip incident is measured in injury, not inconvenience. Furthermore, hospitality venues and light industrial spaces need safety flooring that looks professional and performs consistently under high-volume daily use. Moreover, Australian manufacturing means Accolade Safe meets local construction standards directly and delivers the supply chain reliability that specifiers and facilities managers need when planning large-scale commercial projects.

Accolade Collection Colour Continuity

In addition to its individual performance credentials, Accolade Safe integrates directly into the broader Accolade collection, giving specifiers the ability to maintain colour continuity across safety and non-safety zones within the same building. Specifically, the complementary colour palette connects Accolade Safe with Accolade Plus for general traffic areas and Accolade Foothold for wet barefoot zones, allowing a seamless visual transition between spaces that meet different safety criteria without producing a visible colour break at the zone boundaries. Consequently, specifiers can meet specific compliance requirements in each zone while maintaining the cohesive interior aesthetic that quality healthcare, aged care, and hospitality environments demand. Together, these credentials make Accolade Safe the most considered aquaplane resistant safety vinyl floor specification for any commercial project where safety, hygiene, and design cohesion all matter.

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