attached to the first side 206 of the second rail 202 is a non slip tape segment 210 having a similar length l to that of the corresponding non slip tape segment 110 although fig2 indicates a second non slip tape segment 210 other embodiments require only the first non slip tape segment 110 the non slip tape segment 110 is further described in fig3 and 4 further the non slip tape segments 210 710 810 912 and 1012 described herein if used are known to have similar properties as those associated with the non slip tape segment 110 although such properties may vary among the different non slip tape segments 110 210 710 and 810 included on any one embodiment the non slip tape segment 110 has a thickness of t and is made up of a material side 502 u201c material layer u201d and an adhesive side 504 u201c adhesive layer u201d further the material side 502 has a non slip outer surface 506 because the non slip tape segment 110 comes with an adhesive side or layer 504 i e the adhesive layer is pre applied no additional securing means outside of the tape itself is required to secure the non slip tape segment 110 to the ladder 100 in one embodiment the adhesive side 504 is originally covered by a tape cover or backing not shown which is peeled off before such non slip tape segment 110 is applied to the first side 106 in another.