Floor Slip Test Equipment

In this video 6 min 7 sec steve thorpe from hsl demonstrates pendulum slip resistance results of a dry floor a wet floor and a cleaned floor.

Floor slip test equipment.

Surface performance ltd offer a mobile bs7976 2 slip testing service across the uk. The dry floor friction tester is a machine which measures the slip resistance of floors in a dry condition. The most commonly used equipment for this type of test is known as the tortus. Slip resistance testing or floor friction testing is usually desired by the building s owner or manager when there has been a report of a slip and fall accident when there has.

One of the key components of safety is defining how slippery the floor is. Our in depth experience and knowledge of flooring systems allows us to offer independent expert slip testing services advice to our clients. The pendulum test is the only test recognised in the uk court of law in the event of a slip injury claim because of its ability to provide consistent repeatable and accurate readings and. Our depth of experience and knowledge of flooring systems allows us to offer independent expert slip testing services and advice to our clients.

Advance group are the uk s leading industry experts in slip testing and slip injury prevention. Warning before we continue and tell you about the new uk manufactured. Floorslip only use floor testing equipment methods approved by the uk health and safety executive hse and the uk slip resistance group. All of our test equipment is modern and regularly calibrated.

In fact the workplace health safety and welfare regulations 1992 stipulate that floors must not be slippery so that they put people s safety at risk. Slip and friction tester the slip and friction tester is designed to measure the sliding resistance of sheet like materials including plastic film packaging film laminates paper paperboard and coated surfaces. Floorslip are brokers for uk manufactured floor pendulum test equipment the equipment is not only manufactured in the uk but is built and calibrated to british standards bs 7976 1 manufacture of pendulum test equipment and bs 7976 3 calibration of floor testing equipment. We use the very best equipment tools and latest technology.

Lab master slip friction tester with elevator system. Coefficient of friction cof and slip. Dry fft slip resistance test. The pendulum test mimics the way a heel makes contact with a floor and is hse uk s preferred test method.

This is known as its slip resistance.