UKAS-accredited pendulum slip resistance testing in Ilkeston and across Derbyshire. BS 7976 / BS EN 16165 compliant. Reports within 48 hours of attendance.
Ilkeston is a market town in the Erewash Valley, on the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border, with a busy retail core around the Market Place, a strong hospitality scene, and a significant manufacturing employment base. The town benefits from rail connections via Ilkeston Station (reopened in 2017) to both Nottingham and Sheffield.
Ilkeston visits combine with Long Eaton, Nottingham, Beeston and Derby. Typical scope includes independent retail and hospitality compliance testing, care home managed-risk programmes, and the manufacturing employer welfare and canteen areas.
Independent retail and hospitality, manufacturing employers, the Erewash Borough Council leisure and civic estate, schools, and the substantial care home sector across the Erewash valley.
Ilkeston claims fall within Derby County Court. Care home litigation is a recognised growth area for slip claims, given the combination of frail occupants, frequent fluid contamination, and intensive cleaning regimes — UKAS-accredited PTV testing is the standard pre-incident risk management evidence.
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 Ilkeston or anywhere else in Derbyshire, 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.