UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Plymouth — 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.
Plymouth combines a major Royal Navy base at Devonport with a substantial fishing and marine-engineering economy, retail at Drake Circus, and one of the largest hospital trusts in the South West at Derriford. The city's coastal setting and the volume of leisure traffic on the Hoe and the Barbican mean slip-testing demand spans military, healthcare, retail and hospitality environments.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Plymouth — 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 Plymouth 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.
Plymouth's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Plymouth, South Devon and the A38 corridor through Cornwall are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Defence and marine engineering at HMNB Devonport and Princess Yachts.
NHS estate at Derriford Hospital and across the South West Trust.
Retail and leisure at Drake Circus, the Hoe and the Barbican.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across Drake Circus, the Hoe, the Barbican, Devonport and Plymstock — and the wider Devon region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Plymouth 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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