UKAS ISO/IEC 17025 accredited slip resistance testing for factories (general manufacturing) sites across the Midlands — covering the West Midlands metropolitan county, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Lincolnshire — including DIRFT, Hams Hall, the East Midlands Freeport, the South Yorkshire Investment Zone, the West Midlands Investment Zone, and the Stoke ceramics cluster.
Midlands · 11 counties
Sector profile. General manufacturing covers the heart of UK industrial — production halls, assembly lines, machine shops, and ancillary infrastructure where slip hazards arise from coolant carry-out, hydraulic and lubricant drips, dust accumulation, and the cumulative wear of decades-old painted concrete or hardened-aggregate floors.
Regional industrial cluster. The Midlands is a key region for factories (general manufacturing) activity — covering the West Midlands metropolitan county, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Lincolnshire — including DIRFT, Hams Hall, the East Midlands Freeport, the South Yorkshire Investment Zone, the West Midlands Investment Zone, and the Stoke ceramics cluster.
Every factories (general manufacturing) site in the Midlands has a distinct surface vocabulary that drives the testing protocol.
Painted or coated concrete production floorsthe dominant general-manufacturing finish, with PTV strongly affected by coating age and cleaning regime
Hardened-aggregate concrete (granolithic, Mastertop)in heavy-MHE areas
Anti-static vinyl in electronics and precision-engineering productiontested independently
Steel chequer-plate at platforms and elevated walkwaystested independently
Resin coatings in machine-shop oil-and-coolant zoneshydrocarbon contamination expected
Yellow-painted pedestrian segregation linesthe line itself is tested as well as surrounding floor
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