UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Sheffield — 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.
Sheffield's economy spans advanced manufacturing in the Don Valley, two universities with significant public-facing campus floor space, and major retail at Meadowhall and Fargate. With heavy industry, a substantial NHS presence at the Northern General and Hallamshire hospitals, and high-volume hospitality through the city centre and the Devonshire Quarter, the slip-risk profile is unusually varied.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Sheffield — 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 Sheffield 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.
Sheffield's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Sheffield, Rotherham and the M1 corridor through South Yorkshire are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Advanced manufacturing and steel-related industry in the Don Valley.
University campuses across Sheffield Hallam and the University of Sheffield.
Retail and leisure at Meadowhall, Fargate and the Devonshire Quarter.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across Meadowhall, the Devonshire Quarter, Fargate, Hillsborough, Ecclesall Road and the Don Valley — and the wider South Yorkshire region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Sheffield 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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