UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Birmingham — to BS 7976 and HSE standards. Reports your insurer, HSE inspector and court will recognise. We don't sell flooring, coatings or anti-slip products.
Birmingham is the UK's second city and its largest centre for retail, hospitality and manufacturing outside London. The Bullring, Grand Central, Mailbox, the NEC and a high-density CBD around Colmore Row generate enormous public footfall. With major food manufacturing, automotive supply chains and a growing financial services district at Snow Hill, Birmingham sees the full spectrum of slip-risk environments — and proximity to the M6, M5 and M42 means our engineers can be on site quickly.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Birmingham — from a single shop owner to a national retail estate — has a legal obligation to assess and manage slip risk. A UKAS-accredited Pendulum Test Value (PTV) report is the strongest documented evidence available, and it carries the same weight in Birmingham as it does anywhere else in the UK.
Surface Performance Ltd, trading as Test-Slip, has UKAS ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation — the highest level of laboratory accreditation in the UK. We don't sell flooring, coatings, mats or anti-slip retrofits. The only thing we sell is the test, the report, and the qualified opinion behind both — so the result you get is the result the floor produced, not the result that suits a sales pipeline.
Birmingham's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Birmingham, the wider West Midlands and the M6/M5/M42 motorway network are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Retail and shopping centres including the Bullring, Grand Central and the Mailbox.
Food manufacturing across the Black Country and Tyseley industrial corridors.
Hotels, conference venues and the NEC complex at Bickenhill.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across the Bullring, Colmore Row, Digbeth, Edgbaston, Solihull, the NEC and the Jewellery Quarter — and the wider West Midlands region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Birmingham produces a Pendulum Test Value (PTV) figure. The HSE classifies floors against this value — a single accredited test gives you the evidence to demonstrate which zone your floor sits in.
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