UKAS-accredited pendulum slip resistance testing in Burton-upon-Trent and across Staffordshire. BS 7976 / BS EN 16165 compliant. Reports within 48 hours of attendance.
Burton-upon-Trent sits on the Trent in east Staffordshire, on the Derbyshire border, and is historically the brewing capital of the UK — Molson Coors, Marston's, and several smaller brewers maintain substantial production sites in the town. It also has a busy retail and hospitality core around the Market Place and a significant manufacturing employer base.
Burton visits combine with Derby, Loughborough, and Lichfield. Typical scope includes brewery operational floor testing (a particularly demanding environment with regular water and process-fluid exposure), retail and food unit testing, and the Queen's Hospital site.
Major brewing operators (Molson Coors, Marston's), University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (Queen's Hospital), retail and hospitality, manufacturing and logistics employers, and East Staffordshire Borough Council's leisure estate.
Burton slip claims fall within the County Court at Burton-upon-Trent (a sub-registry of Stoke-on-Trent). Brewery operational environments are recognised as inherently high slip-risk — process-fluid contamination, water washdown, and intensive cleaning regimes all demand UKAS-accredited PTV evidence to demonstrate effective risk management.
Surface Performance is one of the relatively small number of testing bodies in the UK with full UKAS accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025 for slip resistance testing under BS 7976 and BS EN 16165. UKAS accreditation means our reports are recognised by courts, by insurers, by HSE inspectors, and by the major insurance markets — without challenge.
We are also explicitly independent. We do not sell anti-slip coatings, treatments, mats, or chemical products. Our only commercial output is the test report itself. That independence is what gives our reports their evidential weight: there is no commercial incentive for us to find a problem where there isn't one, or to overlook one where there is.
To arrange slip resistance testing in Burton-upon-Trent or anywhere else in Staffordshire, contact us by phone on 0208 246 5562, by email at info@surfaceperformance.com, or use the online enquiry form. Fixed-price quotes are normally returned within the same working day.