If you are looking for dedicated commercial entrance matting, many of the benefits you are looking for are relatively self-evident.
Given the costs of slips, trips and falls, investing in ways to dry wet shoes, stop dirt and debris from getting into your home and reduce the types of wear on your carpet that can cause slip and trip hazards are all vital reasons to invest in matting designed with your needs in mind.
However, this is far from the only reason to invest in entrance matting, and from reducing lost revenue to potentially closing business deals, here are three surprising benefits of entrance mats.
Can Entrance Mats Feature Company Branding?
One of the biggest benefits of entrance matting, particularly when designed by experts in the trade, is that you can use them as a form of additional branding and marketing.
A custom entrance mat can be designed in any colour and with any design, which creates almost limitless potential for marketing and branding on a piece of your architecture and interior design that everyone will touch, particularly on rainy days.
From logos to messages to even images of corporate mascots, the branding potential of entrance mats is enormous, and given that it will form part of the first impressions of your building, your entrance mat design can have an outsized effect on the overall view a visitor will have of your establishment.
Can Entrance Mats Reduce Sick Days?
Whilst entrance mats can reduce slips, trips and falls, which in turn reduces the number of working days lost to injury, can entrance mats also assist with productivity by reducing the days lost to illness as well?
Entrance mats are exceptionally important in the battle against sick building syndrome, as whilst its causes are multifaceted, complex and not always easy to truly diagnose, one of the biggest causes can be related to dirty, dusty or damaged carpets.
Whilst harsh lighting, crowded open-plan offices, poor ventilation and damaged air conditioning do not help, one of the main causes of sick building syndrome is poor air quality, with dust, dirt and fabric fibres in the air a particularly common cause.
A well-designed entrance mat has a dedicated capture channel which traps dirt, dust and debris from outside and stops it from getting into your building.
This, alongside protecting carpets more broadly and stopping their fibres from tearing and flying around, can have a huge impact on the air quality in your building, which similarly affects the health of employees.
Can Entrance Mats Improve The Chances Of Closing Deals?
Whilst the financial benefit of healthy employees is self-evident, this is not the only way in which entrance mats can help you make money. In some cases, they can even help you close business deals.
The key to this is found less in the functionality of the mat itself, although it can help to reduce the wear and tear that can cause a negative impression of a building, but more in what a high-quality branded entrance mat represents right from the start.
It highlights how every detail at your company is important, and creates an initial positive reception that can help steer a meeting in similarly positive directions.