UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Derby — 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.
Derby is one of the UK's most concentrated centres of advanced engineering, home to Rolls-Royce aero engines, Toyota's Burnaston plant and Bombardier (now Alstom) rail manufacturing at Litchurch Lane. Combined with the Intu Derby retail centre, the Royal Derby Hospital and a substantial supply chain across the East Midlands Distribution Centre, slip testing demand here is dominated by precision-engineering environments where contamination control is already part of daily operations.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Derby — 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 Derby 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.
Derby's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Derby, the East Midlands and the A38/A50 corridors are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Advanced engineering at Rolls-Royce, Toyota Burnaston and Alstom rail.
NHS estate at the Royal Derby Hospital and the Florence Nightingale Community Hospital.
Retail and city-centre hospitality at Intu Derby and the Cathedral Quarter.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across the Cathedral Quarter, Intu Derby, Pride Park, Burnaston and Litchurch Lane — and the wider Derbyshire region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Derby 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.
Fill in the form and we'll come back with a clear scope, timeline and fixed fee — usually within 24 hours.