UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Ipswich — 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.
Ipswich is the regional centre for Suffolk, with the Buttermarket and Sailmakers shopping centres, a substantial port-and-marina economy on the Orwell, and major distribution and food production along the A14 corridor. The town has seen significant waterfront regeneration, bringing modern commercial and residential floor space alongside the historic dock infrastructure — a mix that creates varied slip-testing requirements.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Ipswich — 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 Ipswich 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.
Ipswich's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Ipswich, Suffolk and the A14/A12 corridors toward London and Felixstowe are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Port and marina operations at Ipswich Waterfront and Felixstowe approaches.
Retail at the Buttermarket, Sailmakers and Cornhill.
Distribution and logistics along the A14 corridor toward Felixstowe.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across the Waterfront, the Cornhill, Buttermarket, Sailmakers and the Orwell estuary — and the wider Suffolk region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Ipswich 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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