UKAS-accredited pendulum slip resistance testing in Retford and across Nottinghamshire. BS 7976 / BS EN 16165 compliant. Reports within 48 hours of attendance.
Retford (East Retford) is a historic market town in north Nottinghamshire, on the East Coast Main Line and the A1, with a Georgian market square, a strong independent retail and hospitality core, and significant logistics and manufacturing employment along the A1 corridor. It is the second-largest town in Bassetlaw after Worksop.
Retford visits combine with Worksop, Newark, Lincoln, and the southern fringe of Doncaster. Typical scope includes independent retail and hospitality compliance, care home programmes, and the major distribution and manufacturing employers along the A1.
Independent retail and hospitality on the historic Market Square, distribution and logistics operators, schools, care homes, and the rural agricultural and food-processing employers across north Nottinghamshire.
Retford falls within the County Court at Nottingham for personal injury matters. Heritage market-town settings with natural stone surfaces and outdoor seating areas have a particular wet-state slip-risk profile — pendulum testing under BS 7976 is uniquely well-placed to characterise that risk and to support effective cleaning and maintenance regimes.
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 Retford or anywhere else in Nottinghamshire, 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.