Gwynedd · Gogledd Cymru
Slippery floors don’t warn you.
So we put a number on the grip instead — independent, accredited slip testing the length of Gwynedd, measured wet and dry, with a report that settles the argument.
Grip is invisible — until you measure it
A floor that feels fine bone-dry can throw someone the moment it’s wet, and grip only fades as a surface wears and cleaning habits drift. You can’t eyeball it. The HSE is blunt about the cost: slips and trips are the single biggest cause of serious injury at work. The fix is to stop guessing and take a reading.
The pendulum settles it
A weighted arm drags a rubber slider — a stand-in for a slipping heel — across the floor and reads how hard it bites. We run it wet and dry, three ways, and it lands on a Pendulum Test Value. Clear 36 and you’re in the safe zone.
| 0–24 | High risk |
| 25–35 | Moderate |
| 36 and up | Low risk |
| Under 10 | High risk |
| 10–20 | Moderate |
| Over 20 | Low risk |
Both worked to BS 7976-2 and BS EN 16165 and read against UKSRG guidance. The full method →
Some grip hides in the texture
On floors that get wet or greasy, the micro-texture does the work — it gives water somewhere to go so the surface still bites. We measure it in microns (Rz) and use it shoulder to shoulder with the pendulum. We’re accredited for both, so one reading backs up the other.
It isn’t optional
If people walk on it, the duty sits with you. The Health and Safety at Work Act and the Workplace Regulations say keep floors safe and assess the risk; in Welsh care settings, Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) wants that risk actively managed. A measured PTV is what turns “we mop regularly” into something an insurer, the HSE or CIW will actually accept.
Nobody pays us to like your floor
We don’t lay flooring, sell coatings or take a cut from anyone who does. The only thing we hand over is the reading — which is exactly why insurers, the HSE and CIW take it seriously. It’s the same UKAS-accredited lab that’s tested floors for Amazon, Gatwick, British Airways and TUI, and that runs 300-plus flooring products across the rig every year.
The case, in three numbers
Where slips actually happen
The wet bits, the busy bits and the in-between bits — that’s where we point the pendulum.
Tell us about the floor
Want it tested?
Drop us the surface, a rough area in square metres and where you are in Gwynedd. A fixed, no-strings quote comes straight back — usually the same day. We’ll work round you, out of hours if it keeps the doors open.
Independent and ISO/IEC 17025 accredited (UKAS Testing Laboratory No. 7933). We test floors. We don’t sell them.