UKAS ISO 17025 accredited Pendulum testing across Sunderland — 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.
Sunderland is anchored by Nissan's UK manufacturing plant at Washington — one of the largest single car factories in Europe — alongside a substantial supply chain across the International Advanced Manufacturing Park. Combined with the Sunderland Royal Hospital, the University of Sunderland and the Bridges shopping centre, slip-testing here covers heavy automotive manufacturing, healthcare and city-centre retail in roughly equal measure.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, every duty holder in Sunderland — 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 Sunderland 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.
Sunderland's economy generates slip-risk environments that vary by sector. Each one requires a slightly different testing approach, and our engineers in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear and the A19/A1(M) corridors are familiar with the operational realities of each.
Automotive manufacturing at Nissan Washington and the IAMP supply chain.
Retail at the Bridges, Park Lane and Roker.
NHS estate at Sunderland Royal Hospital.
Beyond these focal areas, we test floors across hospitality, healthcare, education, transport, public-sector buildings and food production right across the Bridges, Roker, Washington, Penshaw and the Stadium of Light — and the wider Tyne and Wear region.
Every Pendulum slip test in Sunderland 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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