UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Reading — 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.
Reading is the largest commercial centre in the Thames Valley, hosting major UK headquarters for Microsoft, Oracle, PepsiCo and Visa, alongside the Oracle shopping centre, the University of Reading, and the Royal Berkshire Hospital. The town's tech-sector concentration drives substantial corporate-atrium floor space, while the Oracle and Broad Street generate retail footfall that places consistent demand on slip-testing services year-round.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Reading — 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 Reading 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.
Reading's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Reading, Berkshire and the M4/A33 corridors are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Technology and corporate HQs across Green Park and Thames Valley Park.
Retail at the Oracle, Broad Street Mall and the Forbury.
NHS estate at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across the Oracle, Broad Street, Green Park, Thames Valley Park and Forbury Gardens — and the wider Berkshire region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Reading 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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