Most people haven’t given office chair mats much thought but in many businesses they are essential in preventing the cause of accidents.

Office chair mats are fantastic simple, hard plastic floor mats that are designed to go underneath your office chair wheels and are great particularly over carpeted floors.

Many a time, have I seen person roll back on their office chair to reach a printer or fax machine and have seen their chair wheels stick into the carpet sending them toppling from their seat.  This is, in fact, a very funny picture, however, not if you are the person falling off the office chair and it becomes rather more serious if the person does actually receive an injury from it.

Hard clear plastic mats underneath office chairs are the most common place mat that you will see, they fit with any decoration and should you re-decorate or re-carpet they will never look out of place. Underneath these mats are sharp spikes which sit into the carpet pile and grip the floor so it is impossible for you to lose your balance or for your office chair wheels to get stuck.

Some of these mats will come in anti static material which means that you do not suffer the electricity build up that sometimes occurs from carpeted offices.

Another use for office chair mats is actually on the opposite type of floor surface such as hardwood or concrete floors where the wheels of your office chair will sometimes slip and slide too quickly, again, giving way to the possibility of you slipping off your chair onto the floor.

This type of office chair mat actually decreases the friction of your office chair wheels against the hard flooring