Raised floors with steel panels, the most commonly used type of construction around the world (with millions of square metres laid annually), can receive various types of surface protective treatment, such as painting, electroplating and hot Sendzimir hot-dip galvanizing.

Paint protection may release dangerous fumes in case of fire, while the other two treatments are completely non-combustible.

Some studies opposing “zinc whiskers”, which have not been confirmed by any scientific documentation or backed by limitations imposed by national, European or international harmonised technical regulations, raise doubts about the hypothetical danger of aggregated zinc particles that might be created and then detached by mechanical stresses from the treated surfaces.

While, theoretically, one might hypothesize a possible problem with regard to electroplating done on already finished raw steel pieces, hot-dip galvanization by the sheet metal producers eliminates it entirely.

All of the sheets used in making JVP 4×4 raised floor panels are DX51Z100, i.e. hot-dipped galvanised steel with passivation at the source. This eliminates any possible–even hypothetical–risk of zinc whiskers.