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Slip-resistant Footwear

Slip-resistant Footwear

The Office of the President provides oversight and funding for the UC Slip Resistant Footwear Program (SRFP). The goal of the SRFP is to provide high-quality, slip-resistant footwear to employees whose job duties routinely expose them to significant slip and fall hazards.

The slip-resistant footwear provided by the program is effective in reducing slips on indoor, hard, smooth surfaces such as tile, smooth concrete, wood, and smooth metal that may be dry, intermittently wet, or saturated. Examples include floors that are wet from bodily fluids, equipment/dish washing, mopping, etc.

Program participation is typically declined by UCOP for the following reasons:

  • Carpeted environments, outdoor surfaces, or uneven surfaces such as dirt, wet grass, gravel, and rough concrete.
  • Positions that work in environments that contain significant slip hazards less than 60% of the time.

If you are enrolling a new department that does not have a previously existing slip-resistant footwear account, enter the UCOP portal here.
UCOP portal

FAQs

This is a UCOP program, at times they deny applications based on the factors mentioned above: type of surface (e.g. carpet, outdoors) or percent time spent on potentially slippery surfaces.

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Shoes (including work boots and waterproof boots):
Each eligible employee enrolled in the program must re-order shoes every 6 months to maintain the protective quality of the footwear and to ensure that employees are covered under the SRF Program Warranty.

Overshoes:
Overshoes are reusable slip-resistant shoe covers that are worn over an individual’s own shoes. They come in a range of sizes and can be shared among multiple users during their lifetime of use which is up to 6 months of normal wear (based upon a 40-hour work week). Only authorized purchasers have access to place orders on the Overshoes accounts and there is no limit to the number of overshoes that can be purchased.

Insoles:
Supportive insoles are now available for ordering using the Overshoes accounts with each supplier. At this time, only authorized purchasers have access to place orders on the Overshoes accounts. As with overshoes, there is no limit to the number of insoles that can be purchased so that they may be replaced on an as-needed basis.

The program is fully funded by UCOP and there is no cost for individual departments.

Authorized purchasers are able to place and manage shoe orders. Individual employees may order their own shoes only when granted access by their unit or primary contact. If you don’t know who your authorized purchaser or contact is, ask your supervisor.

Only authorized purchasers are able to purchase overshoes and insoles.

Student employees are not eligible to enroll in the program and must be issued overshoes.

Part-time employees who work 20 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll and should be issued slip-resistant footwear every 6-month. Employees working less than 20 hours must be issued overshoes.

Short-term employees who will be working more than 60 days are eligible to enroll and should be issued slip-resistant footwear. Employees working less than 60 days must be issued overshoes.

All employees enrolled in the program are required to select shoes from the pre-approved catalog.

If an employee is not searchable in the portal, please follow these instructions:

  1. Instruct employees to log on to the UCOP SRF portal using their SSO information.
  2. Once the employee successfully logs in, this should populate their information into the system and allow them to be searchable by the unit contacts
  3. If you are still not able to search them after they have logged in or you encounter an error, submit an IT request via email.

There is no way to move employees from group to group. Your previous department must manually remove you before you may be added to your new group given that they are also enrolled in the program.

For all footwear products and specific order inquiries, work with your unit contact to email the supplier. When emailing, provide the unit code which begins with UCDHS followed by a series of numbers.

List of other contacts:

For technical issues with SRFP, contact the Risk and Safety Solutions Service desk at service@riskandsafety.com