I'll have to grab my camera, but I'd be glad tosend you pics of my floor. If it adds any weight to your arguement feel free to cut and paste the following;
Buffing / Gloss painting a scene shop floor is a recipe for disaster. While it is important to maintain a clean,organized shop, buffing a floor does not fall into the equation. Think of the materials that often accumulate on scene shop floors, the most dangerous of which can be sawdust. A student moving across a scene shop floor which is glossy or buffed, who hits a small patch of sawdust can slip and fall, or merely slip and injure himself. A scene shop at which I was formerly employed moved into a new facility, parts of which had been used as a warehouse and the floors of which had been sealed with a gloss finish. One day, while unloading gear from a truck I hit a small patch of sawdust with my right boot, which went shooting out in front of me. I caught myself before falling but as a result I threw my back out. I missed almost a week of work. We finally got sand spread it on the floor, then drove the fork lift over and over the same spots, until we had ground away most of glossy finish.
Imagine, carpet scraps,
muslin, threads from muslin, dust bunnies, all are turned into potential lawsuits by a glossy, slick floor.
Several companies manufacture Epoxy based or even Acrylic based floor coatings, Pitt-Tech comes to mind, all of which can have a glossy look to them but actually have a bit of "grip". I would suggest one of these coatings or even just plain old "Left-over" paint, if one is interested in "prettying-up" a scene shop floor. One place I used to work keept all the left over paint from shows and mixed it up in a big bucket, at the end of the year, that's what color the floor would be painted.
Hope that helps.