UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Manchester — 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.
Manchester's transformation into a media, financial and hospitality hub means thousands of square metres of new floor surface are being installed every year — from MediaCityUK to Spinningfields, from the regenerated Northern Quarter to the airport City development. Combined with a substantial food and drink manufacturing base across Trafford Park and Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester is one of the most active slip testing markets in the North.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Manchester — 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 Manchester 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.
Manchester's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Greater Manchester, the M60 ring road and the M62 corridor are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Hotels, bars and restaurants in the Northern Quarter, Spinningfields and Deansgate.
Logistics and food manufacturing across Trafford Park, Salford and Wythenshawe.
Office receptions and corporate headquarters across the city centre and MediaCityUK.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across Spinningfields, Deansgate, the Northern Quarter, Salford Quays, MediaCityUK and Trafford Park — and the wider Greater Manchester region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Manchester 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.