UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Bournemouth — 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.
Bournemouth's economy is dominated by tourism, conferences and financial services, with the Bournemouth International Centre, the seafront pier and a hotel estate that swells the town's effective population every summer. JP Morgan, Liverpool Victoria and Vitality have major operations centres here, generating substantial corporate-atrium floor space alongside the high-volume hospitality sector.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Bournemouth — 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 Bournemouth 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.
Bournemouth's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Bournemouth, Dorset and the A338/A31 corridors are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Hotels and conference venues across the seafront and Westover Road.
Financial services at JP Morgan, LV= and Vitality offices.
Retail at the Castlepoint, Bournemouth Square and Old Christchurch Road.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across the Pier, Westover Road, the BIC, the Triangle and Boscombe — and the wider Dorset region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Bournemouth 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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