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The authors have no stake in any of these companies.Mr. Hallas has undertaken unrelated testing work for the flooring manufacturer Polyflor under contract with the Health and Safety Executive and related resistance to wheel movement testing for the flooring manufacturer Tarkett under contract with the Health and Safety Executive.Prof Evans is involved in the Technical Committee on Hip Protectors for the CSA Z325 standard.Dr. Keenan and Prof Evans have previously undertaken commercial testing of hip protectors which is referenced in this paper but have no conflicts of interest for the work presented here.","order":2,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Conflicts of interests"}},{"value":"This publication and the work it describes were co-funded by Cardiff University, the University of Portsmouth and the Health and Safety Executive. 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