Originally Posted by
alphaod
I know a lot of people don't use the emergency straps, but they should. As for home, there is padded drywall behind our treadmill and the space uses rubber mats.
Emergency straps? You mean the little clip that shuts the belt off? I never understood how that would save you. Perhaps if you crumpled straight down and wound up in a heap at the foot of the treadmill in contact with a moving belt - it might save you a belt burn.
Jim