UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Stoke-on-Trent — 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.
Stoke-on-Trent's six towns — Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall, Longton, Fenton and Stoke — host one of the densest concentrations of ceramics, food and logistics manufacturing in the UK, anchored by the bet365 headquarters in Festival Park and major distribution centres at Trentham Lakes. Slip testing demand here is heavily weighted toward industrial wet-process floors, with growing retail demand at the intu Potteries.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Stoke-on-Trent — 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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.
Stoke-on-Trent's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Stoke-on-Trent, North Staffordshire and the M6 corridor are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Ceramics manufacturing across Burslem, Longton and Stoke.
Logistics and distribution at Trentham Lakes, Sideway and the A50 corridor.
Retail and leisure at the intu Potteries and Festival Park.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across Hanley, Festival Park, Trentham Lakes, Newcastle-under-Lyme and the Potteries — and the wider Staffordshire region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Stoke-on-Trent 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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