Low tack slip-resistant shoe cover

The present invention relates to protective garments, such as shoe covers, having slip-resistant properties. As is generally known, protective garments, such as surgical gowns, surgical drapes, and shoe covers (hereinafter collectively "surgical articles") have been designed to greatly reduce or prevent the transmission through the surgical article of liquid and/or airborne contaminants. In surgical environments, such liquid sources include the gown wearer's perspiration, patient liquids, such as blood, and life support liquids, such as plasma and saline. Examples of airborne contaminants include biological contaminants, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungal spores. Such contaminants may also include particulate material such as lint, mineral fines, dust, skin squamae, and respiratory droplets. A shoe or foot covering with slip-resistant properties is disclosed. The shoe cover includes a slip-resistant material that is applied to the bottom portion of the shoe cover. The slip-resistant material may be a substantially amorphous atactic olefin polymer.