Introduction to Slips and Falls

Slips and falls are major causes of workplace injuries around the globe. Understanding the basic concepts of slips is imperative to understand how slip-related falls occur and eventually develop preventive strategies accordingly. This chapter aims to introduce all the basic terminologies associated with slips and falls. The different approaches to understand and comprehend slips and slip-related falls mainly the objective, subjective and psychological approaches to understand slips and falls have also been dealt with in this chapter.