UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Glasgow — 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.
Glasgow is Scotland's largest city and its commercial heart, with the Buchanan Galleries, St Enoch Centre and Silverburn anchoring retail, while the Clyde-side regeneration at Pacific Quay (BBC Scotland, STV, the SEC) drives modern office and event-venue floor space. Combined with the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, four universities and a substantial industrial-engineering legacy, slip testing demand here is broad-based and consistently high.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Glasgow — 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 Glasgow 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.
Glasgow's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Glasgow, the Clyde Valley and the M8/M77/M74 motorway network are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Retail at Buchanan Galleries, St Enoch Centre and Silverburn.
Media, broadcasting and events at Pacific Quay and the SEC.
NHS estate at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across Buchanan Street, Sauchiehall Street, the Merchant City, Pacific Quay and the West End — and the wider Scotland region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Glasgow 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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