UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Cardiff — 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.
Cardiff is the capital and commercial centre of Wales, with St David's shopping centre, the Principality Stadium, Cardiff Bay's regenerated waterfront and the Welsh Government estate at Cathays Park driving substantial public and private-sector floor space. The Mermaid Quay leisure development and the University Hospital of Wales complete a slip-testing profile that is the broadest in Wales by volume.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Cardiff — 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 Cardiff 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.
Cardiff's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Cardiff, South Wales and the M4 corridor are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Retail at St David's, the Capitol and Queens Arcade.
Government and public sector across Cathays Park and the Senedd.
Stadium and event venues at the Principality Stadium and Cardiff City Stadium.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across St David's, Cardiff Bay, the Principality Stadium, Queen Street and the Castle — and the wider Wales region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Cardiff 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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