UKAS-accredited pendulum slip resistance testing in Wallingford and across Oxfordshire. BS 7976 / BS EN 16165 compliant. Reports within 48 hours of attendance.
Wallingford is a historic market town on the Thames with a busy retail centre, a strong independent hospitality scene, and significant employment at the Howbery Park research campus. Slip testing in Wallingford is regularly commissioned for retail handover, hospitality compliance, and care home managed risk programmes.
Wallingford is a frequent stop on our Oxfordshire schedule and is normally combined with Didcot, Henley and Abingdon visits. We test stone, tile, and resin floors typical of the historic high street and the modern Howbery Park buildings.
Independent retail and hospitality, research and laboratory occupiers at Howbery Park, schools, care homes, and the local authority's leisure and community estate.
Wallingford slip claims fall within the Oxford County Court area. Pre-incident UKAS-accredited testing is, in practice, the only objective evidence an occupier can hold up against a claimant's hindsight allegation that a floor 'must have been slippery'.
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 Wallingford or anywhere else in Oxfordshire, 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.