A changing room is a wet floor with somewhere to sit and somewhere to hang a jacket. If the water has nowhere to go, the bench does not matter.

Look at the bench, the hook rail, and whether the tile sends water toward a drain. Ask the specifier for the fall in writing, and record the figure they sign. The Health and Safety Executive slips index, accessed 14 October 2026, groups causes, prevention and surfaces: https://www.hse.gov.uk/slips/index.htm

Example of an empty bench and five hooks on tiled walls.

For a golf club's changing space: spikes or soft shoes, showers, and a floor that stays wet after a wave of players.

Ask the specifier, in writing:

  • Where does water leave the tile?
  • What happens at the junction of wet tile and a drier corridor?
  • Can the bench and hooks be wiped without a special chemical you have not stocked?
  • Who inspects the floor on a competition morning?

Bench, hooks, water on the tile, and the fall to confirm with the specifier.

The photograph shows a bench and a hook board in an empty tiled room. Shadows on the wall come from a window.

Mud at the building’s front door, before anyone reaches this room, is walls and floors at the threshold. For detailed MEP and millwork specifications—covering 8 to 10 ACH negative-pressure exhaust, 100 to 150 mm raised locker plinths, 1.8 to 2.45 m bench aisle clearances, and GFCI grooming vanity setbacks—see locker room design: negative-pressure ventilation, wet-zone separation, benches, and plinth lockers, and for dry-zone golf spike resistant carpet tiles, vulcanized rubber, barefoot wet shower tribology (ANSI A326.3 IW+, DIN 51097 Class B/C, PTV >= 40), and ANSI A118.3 epoxy grout maintenance, see locker room flooring: barefoot slip resistance and spike durability. How the locker room connects to the bag drop, pro shop, 18th-green return, and 19th-hole bar across the wider building is mapped in golf clubhouse design and member-visitor flow. The parent section is sports facilities.

Record the walk-through: date, footwear, the uncertain route, and who inspects next.

Walk the room in the shoes players will wear, then again in bare feet if showers are used. Note which route feels uncertain, and file that note beside the date and the fall the specifier signed.

Method and sources

Original questions. HSE slips index, accessed 14 October 2026. Updated October 2026.