UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Newcastle upon Tyne — 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.
Newcastle anchors the North East economy with a strong retail presence at Eldon Square and Northumberland Street, a busy hospitality scene around the Bigg Market and Quayside, and the Helix innovation district driving new commercial development. Combined with major hospitals (the RVI and Freeman), the Metro network's public floor space, and a substantial offshore-energy supply base, slip testing demand here spans the public, commercial and industrial sectors.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Newcastle upon Tyne — 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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.
Newcastle upon Tyne's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and the wider Tyne and Wear region are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Retail at Eldon Square, Northumberland Street and the Metrocentre across the Tyne.
Hospitality and leisure across the Quayside and the Bigg Market.
NHS estate including the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospital.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across Eldon Square, Grey Street, the Quayside, Jesmond, Gosforth and the Metrocentre — and the wider Tyne and Wear region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Newcastle upon Tyne 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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