UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Oxford — 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.
Oxford's economy combines collegiate university floor space with the Oxford Science Park, major teaching hospitals at the John Radcliffe and Churchill, and a busy retail and hospitality core around Cornmarket and the Westgate. Many of Oxford's surfaces are listed or located within conservation areas, requiring slip-testing approaches that capture risk without disturbing heritage fabric — and our reports are designed with planning officers and conservation architects in mind.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Oxford — 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 Oxford 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.
Oxford's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Oxford, Oxfordshire and the M40/A34 corridors are familiar with the operational realities of each.
University college floor space across all 39 colleges and the Bodleian.
NHS estate at the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals.
Retail and hospitality at Westgate Oxford, the Covered Market and Cornmarket.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across Cornmarket, the High, Westgate, the Covered Market and the John Radcliffe — and the wider Oxfordshire region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Oxford 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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