Safer, More Comfortable Flooring for the Home
The place people most want to stay is also where most falls happen. Kradal Smart Foam is an impact-absorbing floor installed beneath ordinary vinyl — protecting against fall injuries without changing how your home looks or feels. Discreet, warm underfoot, and always working, it helps people live safely and independently in the home they love.
Most falls happen at home
For older adults, a fall is the single biggest threat to living independently — and home is where falls happen most. Around half of all fall-related hospitalisations occur in the home, and a single fall can mean a fracture, a loss of confidence, and in many cases the difference between staying at home and moving into care.
The risk concentrates in a few familiar places:
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Bathrooms — wet, hard surfaces, with tiled floors and sharp vanity edges.
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Bedrooms — night-time trips near the bed and hard furniture, when balance and visibility are lowest.
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Hallways and living areas — the everyday paths through the home, where mobility aids catch and footing matters most.
Protection built quietly into the floor
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Kradal Smart Foam is an impact-absorbing layer installed beneath standard vinyl flooring. It works on its own, all the time — nothing to wear, charge, switch on, or remember. When a fall happens, the foam absorbs and spreads the impact to reduce injury, then returns to shape. Because it sits beneath the surface, the floor looks and cleans exactly like any other. The protection is invisible; only the peace of mind is noticeable.
Looks like home, not a hospital
Safety at home shouldn't mean living in a clinical-looking space. Kradal is finished with ordinary vinyl in a wide range of styles, including warm timber looks, so a protected floor is indistinguishable from a beautiful one. There are no rails, ramps, or institutional fittings on show — just a comfortable, attractive home that happens to be far safer. For many families, that discretion is what makes safety acceptable to a parent who doesn't want their home to feel like a care facility.
The safest room in the house
The bathroom is the highest-risk room in any home — and the one where Kradal does the most. Beyond the impact-absorbing floor, the system extends to two more points of protection:
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Kradal Smart Foam Vanity Top — a cushioned vanity surface that absorbs impact and protects the head and upper body in a fall, sized to standard cabinets.
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Kradal Soft 90° Corner Edge System — cushioned protection on the hard corners and junctions where secondary injuries happen.
Warm and comfortable underfoot
Kradal's foam core is thermally insulating, so floors feel warmer underfoot than tile or timber — a small comfort that matters every day, especially for bare feet on a cold morning. The cushioned surface is gentler to stand and walk on, and quieter too, softening footfall throughout the home.
Proven to reduce injuries
Kradal isn't a comfort product with a safety story attached — its protection is measured. A 30-month clinical study published in Injury Prevention (BMJ Publishing Group) found a substantial reduction in fall-related injuries on Kradal compared with conventional flooring; after adjusting for individual factors, the system achieved approximately 60% injury reduction. That protection works for everyone in the home, every day, without anyone having to do a thing.
Gustavsson et al. (2018), Injury Prevention, BMJ
Helping people stay at home, safely
Staying in your own home is about more than comfort — it's about independence, dignity, and quality of life. By reducing the risk and severity of falls, Kradal helps older adults remain confident and independent in their own homes for longer, and gives their families genuine peace of mind. It's a quiet, permanent layer of protection that asks nothing of the people it protects.