UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Northampton — 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.
Northampton sits at the centre of UK distribution, with the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal, Brackmills Industrial Estate and a constellation of warehouse-and-fulfilment operations within a 20-minute radius. Combined with Grosvenor Centre retail, Northampton General Hospital and the University of Northampton's new Waterside campus, the slip-testing profile is dominated by industrial concrete and modern public-sector flooring.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Northampton — 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 Northampton 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.
Northampton's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Northampton, Northamptonshire and the M1 corridor are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Distribution and logistics across Brackmills, DIRFT and the M1 corridor.
Retail at Grosvenor Centre, Market Square and Riverside Retail Park.
Education and healthcare at the University of Northampton and Northampton General Hospital.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across the Grosvenor Centre, the Market Square, Brackmills, Sixfields and Waterside — and the wider Northamptonshire region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Northampton 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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