UKAS-accredited pendulum slip resistance testing for Nottingham's retail estate. Court-defensible BS 7976-2 reports — for shopping centres, department stores, fashion retail and the wider city retail catchment.
Victoria Centre, intu Broadmarsh redevelopment, Bridlesmith Gate, Clumber Street and the wider city retail estate.
Surface Performance Ltd — operating under UKAS ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation, Lab Schedule No. 7933 — provides BS 7976-2 pendulum slip resistance testing across Nottingham's retail estate. From flagship city-centre stores and shopping centres through to supermarkets, department stores, fashion retail, electronics, pharmacies and motor retail.
Slip injuries are the single largest source of public-liability claims in UK retail. Nottingham's retail catchment generates particularly high footfall — and therefore particularly high incident frequency. After a fall, the only slip evidence accepted by UK courts is a pendulum test report from a UKAS-accredited laboratory. The UKAS endorsement mark on our reports is what differentiates evidence accepted as expert opinion from evidence dismissed under cross-examination.
Across Nottingham retail premises, the highest-risk zones are entrance vestibules during wet weather, polished shop floors common in fashion and jewellery retail, refrigerated supermarket aisles, food court floors, customer toilets, escalator landings and external pedestrian routes through shopping centres.
Nottingham retail premises typically attend within 1–2 weeks of booking. Priority response available for post-incident investigations, RIDDOR cases and pre-litigation testing. Multi-site programmes across Nottingham's retail estate — particularly for major chains and group brands — start from £350 per store for groups of 5+ sites.
A fixed written quote for retail slip testing across Nottingham.
A retail-slip-testing.co.uk service operated by Surface Performance Ltd — UKAS Testing Laboratory No. 7933. Reports written to the standard accepted by UK courts in slip injury claims.