Safety by choice, not by chance
Slip testing in Cambridgeshire, proven.
We measure how much grip your floors really have — wet and dry, with the pendulum and surface-roughness methods the HSE relies on — and issue a UKAS-accredited report that stands as evidence. The same testing we’ve done for Amazon, Gatwick and British Airways.
PTV 36+ — LOW SLIP RISK
Slips and trips are the single most common cause of major injury in UK workplaces.Source: HSE
Over a quarter of all non-fatal workplace accidents are the result of slips.Source: HSE
Industry estimates put the cost of slips and trips to UK employers at over £500 million a year — and suggest accredited testing can cut the risk of a claim by around half.Industry estimate
The track record
Case files
Slip testing is only as good as the evidence it produces. Here’s the kind of work Surface Performance has on record — the team behind this service.
Amazon Logistics
When Amazon opened a major new distribution unit, they brought Surface Performance in to prove the floors were safe befo…
Read the case file →Gatwick Airport
Airports are about as high-traffic as public floors get. Surface Performance tests the shuttle-bus floors and the termin…
Read the case file →British Airways
Testing a clean floor only tells half the story. For BA’s hangar, Surface Performance tested in the contaminated s…
Read the case file →TUI — Marella Discovery
A slip had already happened. TUI needed independent proof of where the floors stood — the after-an-incident scenar…
Read the case file →Two methods, one verdict
The pendulum and surface roughness
The HSE recognises two complementary tests. The pendulum measures grip directly; surface roughness (Rz) tracks how a floor changes over time and matters most in contaminated areas like kitchens and factories. We do both.
Pendulum (PTV)
| PTV result | Slip risk |
|---|---|
| 0–24 | High |
| 25–35 | Moderate |
| 36 + | Low |
Surface roughness (Rz)
| Surface roughness (Rz) | Slip risk |
|---|---|
| Below 10 | High |
| 10–20 | Moderate |
| Above 20 | Low |
Coverage
Across the county
From Cambridge and the Science Park to Peterborough, Ely and the Fens — the whole CB / PE postcode area. See coverage →
Get a quote
Put your floors on the record
Send the surface type, the rough area in square metres and where you are in Cambridgeshire. We’ll come back with a fixed, no-obligation price and the next available date.
Independent and ISO/IEC 17025 accredited (UKAS Testing Laboratory No. 7933). We test floors; we don’t sell flooring or treatments.