UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Blackpool — 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.
Blackpool's hospitality and leisure economy is the largest concentrated tourist sector in the North of England — the Pleasure Beach, the Tower, the Winter Gardens, the Promenade and several hundred hotels and guest houses generate intense seasonal footfall on surfaces that are constantly contaminated by salt-spray, rain and sand. Slip testing here is a year-round operational necessity rather than a periodic compliance task.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Blackpool — 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 Blackpool 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.
Blackpool's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Blackpool, the Fylde coast and the M55/A585 corridors are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Theme parks and visitor attractions including Pleasure Beach, the Tower and Sandcastle.
Hotels and guest houses across the Promenade, North Shore and South Shore.
Retail at the Houndshill, Hounds Hill Centre and Bonny Street.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across the Promenade, the Pleasure Beach, the Tower, the Winter Gardens and Stanley Park — and the wider Lancashire region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Blackpool 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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