UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Bristol — 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.
Bristol's economy is dominated by aerospace, financial services and a fast-growing tech sector, with the harbourside, Cabot Circus, and Clifton driving year-round public footfall. The city's mix of Georgian heritage flooring, modern shopping-centre tile and large-scale industrial estates around Filton and Avonmouth means slip testing here spans heritage stone, contemporary porcelain and heavy-industry concrete — each surface type requiring a tailored Pendulum testing approach.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Bristol — 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 Bristol 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.
Bristol's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Bristol, the M4/M5 interchange and the wider South West region are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Aerospace and advanced manufacturing around Filton and Bristol Airport.
Retail and leisure at Cabot Circus, Broadmead and Clifton Village.
Harbourside hospitality, restaurants and the SS Great Britain visitor estate.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across Cabot Circus, the Harbourside, Clifton, Park Street, Stokes Croft and the Bristol Aerospace cluster — and the wider South West England region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Bristol 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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