UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Exeter — 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.
Exeter is the South West's regional capital outside Bristol, hosting the University of Exeter, the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, the Princesshay shopping district, and substantial financial-services floor space in the form of the Met Office and a Lloyds Banking Group operations centre. The city's mix of medieval Cathedral Close, Georgian terraces and modern retail means slip-testing demand spans heritage, healthcare and contemporary commercial environments.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Exeter — 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 Exeter 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.
Exeter's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Exeter, Devon and the M5/A30 corridors are familiar with the operational realities of each.
University and education at the University of Exeter Streatham campus.
NHS estate at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and Wonford.
Retail at Princesshay, Guildhall Shopping Centre and the High Street.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across Princesshay, Cathedral Close, the Quay, Streatham Campus and Sowton — and the wider Devon region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Exeter 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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