Floor Slip Test Equipment

Lab master slip friction tester with elevator system.

Floor slip test equipment. One of the key components of safety is defining how slippery the floor is. We use the very best equipment tools and latest technology. Dry fft slip resistance test. This is known as its slip resistance.

The dry floor friction tester is a machine which measures the slip resistance of floors in a dry condition. The pendulum test mimics the way a heel makes contact with a floor and is hse uk s preferred test method. Floorslip only use floor testing equipment methods approved by the uk health and safety executive hse and the uk slip resistance group. 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.

Warning before we continue and tell you about the new uk manufactured. Coefficient of friction cof and slip. Our in depth experience and knowledge of flooring systems allows us to offer independent expert slip testing services advice to our clients. Buy new pendulum floor testing equipment.

The most commonly used equipment for this type of test is known as the tortus. Advance group are the uk s leading industry experts in slip testing and slip injury prevention. Our depth of experience and knowledge of flooring systems allows us to offer independent expert slip testing services and advice to our clients. Surface performance ltd offer a mobile bs7976 2 slip testing service across the uk.

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. 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. 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. All of our test equipment is modern and regularly calibrated.

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.