UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Middlesbrough — 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.
Middlesbrough anchors the Tees Valley economy, with substantial chemical, steel and process-industry manufacturing across Wilton, Billingham and Teesworks. Combined with Cleveland Centre retail, Teesside University and the James Cook University Hospital, slip-testing demand here is dominated by heavy-industry environments where wet-process floors and contamination control are everyday operational concerns — exactly the conditions where Pendulum testing produces the most defensible results.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Middlesbrough — 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 Middlesbrough 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.
Middlesbrough's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Middlesbrough, the Tees Valley and the A19/A66 corridors are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Process industry and chemicals at Wilton International and Billingham.
Steel and energy at Teesworks and the South Tees Development Corporation site.
Retail at Cleveland Centre, Hill Street and Captain Cook Square.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across Cleveland Centre, the Riverside, Teesworks, Stockton-on-Tees and Hartlepool — and the wider North Yorkshire / Tees Valley region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Middlesbrough 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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