You’ve been in your industry long enough to know the hazards, including the things that accompany standing workers.  Long hours spent on their feet, standing employees often complain of tired aching feet, tired legs, and lower back pain, shoulders, and neck.  Not only are these ailments painful and sometimes debilitating to the worker, they can often lead to lawsuits, workman’s compensation situations, or other undesirable employee relations.  Thankfully, there’s a solution; anti-fatigue mats.  

Heavy duty anti-fatigue comfort floor mats are thick, rubberized mats placed in areas where standing employees perform their daily tasks.  These can be placed in areas like assembly lines, kitchen lines, medical back offices, retail and cosmetic stores, mechanic shops, and the like.  Basically anywhere you have a standing employee, you have the opportunity to install an anti-fatigue mat to reduce the risk of injury associated with standing work.  

At Ultimate Mats, we carry a vast line of anti-fatigue comfort mats, including some of the top selling anti-fatigue standing mats in the industry.  These mats are durable, high-quality, industrial grade, and visually appealing, and made for all manners of industry use.  We specialize in matching the right mat to the right business and we back it up with a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee.  We know the value of a great anti-fatigue mat, and we are here to share four reasons why you should be using anti-fatigue mats in your workspaces.  

Reasons to Use Anti-Fatigue Mats

If you are still not convinced that an anti-fatigue rubber floor mat will add value to your company, maybe these industry-insider reasons can change your mind.  After years of selling anti-fatigue mats to companies that employ standing workers, we’ve compiled a list of reasons why you should consider installing them in your space.  

• Health of your workers.  Anti-fatigue mats are used first and foremost to keep your standing workers comfortable.  Rubber anti-fatigue mats work by causing the standing worker to constantly make micro-adjustments in their standing posture.  The heavy cushioning underfoot causes a slightly unstable surface that requires micro-adjustments and prevents the worker from remaining in a fully locked out standing position without movement for long periods of time.  When a worker stands in a fully locked out standing position, blood muscles become rigid causing blood vessel restriction.  That restriction decreases blood flow in the body, which results in the standing employee feeling fatigued. They are also non-slip and anti-slip to keep your workers safe.

Standing work is notoriously difficult on the body of a worker.  Not only does it result in stress to the happy feet, ankles, hip, low back, and neck, it can also cause an otherwise extremely productive worker to underperform due to fatigue, distracting pain, or inability to focus.  These issues make for a huge disruption in productivity that can create a ripple effect to an assembly line, kitchen, or other employee to employee dependent workflow. This can all be prevented by the introduction of an anti-fatigue mat.  If an anti-fatigue rubber mat is placed in a standing employee’s workspace, their productivity will increase and they will be less likely to be affected by common standing work related injuries.   

• Integrity and safety of your business.  One of the most sidelining issues a business owner can have is dealing with a worker’s compensation claim or other lawsuits resulting from an unsafe or non-ergonomically correct work environment.  Not only do worker’s compensation claims and/or other related lawsuits or legal matters drain a business financially, it also deals the business owner with precious time.  Time spent in an attorney’s office away from your business is time you could be investing in making your business more profitable.  Something as simple as installing anti-fatigue mats in your standing employees’ workspaces can mean the difference in having to deal with these types of time-consuming issues or not.  

Avoiding workplace lawsuits allows you to invest more time and money back into your business; an investment that will almost assuredly see a large return on investment.  

• Floor protection.  Any highly trafficked area will show wear and tear more than an area that sees no foot traffic at all.  However, hard floor areas where standing or walking workers utilize space for more than seventy-five hours in a two week period will see more wear and tear than a floor space occupied by a seated employee in a chair. This can be covered up with an area rug, but it is best to prevent it from happening at all.  Using an anti-fatigue mat has the dual purpose of not only protecting your employees, but protecting your flooring.  Instead of your standing and walking employees trapesing over the same compromised piece of flooring each day, they’ll walk over a unique padded mat that will not only cushion their feet, but cushion the impact they have on the floor below the mat.  

The flooring beneath a best seller anti-fatigue mat is safe from not only the constant foot traffic it would normally see, but also from the anti-fatigue kitchen mat itself.  The backing of the anti-fatigue mats sold by Ultimate Mats is made from nitrile rubber and PVC which are waterproof and prevent damage to underlying flooring.  Anti-fatigue mats, generally, are safe to use on any type of hard flooring.  

• Style.  You may not consider style to be of particular concern when considering anti-fatigue matting, but we at Ultimate Mats know that the best work environments are ones that are not only safe and comfortable, but also aesthetically appealing.  We provide anti-fatigue matting in colors that are understated and blend in to provide a visually satisfying workspace.  We even offer anti-fatigue door mats in marbled and confetti style designs.  

Adding ergonomic features to your workspace does not mean adding items that completely lack visual appeal.  Let the team at Ultimate Mats help you find the anti-fatigue matting that is perfect for you in style, performance, and durability.

Anti-fatigue mats are a great way to protect your standing employees while they work.  They’re also a failsafe in ensuring your employees are properly cared for to the best of your abilities as an employer.  Installing anti-fatigue mats can prevent you from wasting valuable time and money on workers compensation claims and other related legal matters resulting from injuries sustained by standing employees.  Ultimate Mats has been in the commercial matting industry since 2005.  We can help you decide which anti-fatigue mats are right for your space and needs.