UKAS-accredited pendulum slip resistance testing in Reading and across Berkshire. BS 7976 / BS EN 16165 compliant. Reports within 48 hours of attendance.
Reading is the largest commercial centre in the Thames Valley, with the Oracle shopping centre, Broad Street Mall, the Royal Berkshire Hospital, and a major business park footprint at Green Park, Thames Valley Park and Reading International. The combination of dense retail, hospitality, and corporate occupier activity generates substantial demand for ongoing slip resistance testing programmes.
We attend Reading from our Thames Valley schedule, often combining visits with Oxford, Henley and Wokingham. The Oracle and Broad Street operators run rolling annual testing programmes covering common parts and tenant fit-outs.
Major retail centres, hospitality, the NHS hospital estate, corporate occupiers at Green Park and Thames Valley Park, hotels, transport hubs (Reading Station), and educational institutions including the University of Reading.
Reading slip claims are heard at the County Court at Reading. The Thames Valley insurance market is one of the most active in the UK for occupiers' liability claims, and UKAS-accredited slip testing is the standard pre-incident risk management evidence relied on by insurers and defendant lawyers.
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 Reading or anywhere else in Berkshire, 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.