UKAS-accredited pendulum slip resistance testing in Didcot and across Oxfordshire. BS 7976 / BS EN 16165 compliant. Reports within 48 hours of attendance.
Didcot has grown rapidly around the Harwell and Milton Park science and innovation campuses, with the Orchard Centre, the railway station, and a significant residential expansion creating a busy hospitality, retail and commercial environment. Slip resistance testing is regularly commissioned by both the science park operators and the town centre retail and food businesses.
We combine Didcot visits with Abingdon, Wantage and Wallingford. Typical scope includes laboratory and clean-room edge zones at Harwell, retail and food service unit testing in the Orchard Centre, and post-incident work for hotels and care home operators.
Science and laboratory occupiers at Harwell Campus and Milton Park, retail and food operators at the Orchard Centre, transport hubs (Didcot Parkway), schools, and residential care providers.
Didcot incidents are litigated through the County Court at Oxford. UKAS-accredited slip testing produces a Schedule 7933 report that can be relied upon directly in evidence — non-accredited reports are routinely challenged by claimant lawyers and insurers.
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 Didcot 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.