Food manufacturing creates the most demanding slip-testing environment in UK industry. Wet washdown regimes, organic residue, hot/cold zone transitions, hygienic resin floors, and BRC-driven cleaning chemistry all interact to produce slip risks that vary hour-by-hour through a pr…
Tier 1 · Food Beverage
Every food manufacturing site has a distinct surface vocabulary that drives the testing protocol. We test the actual surfaces present, not a generic baseline.
Polyurethane methyl methacrylate (PMMA) hygienic flooringthe dominant high-care food production finish, with PTV strongly affected by cleaning chemistry
Cementitious polyurethane (Flowfresh, Ucrete) heavy-duty production floorsthe BRC-favoured finish for wet-washdown zones
Epoxy resin floors in low-care zones, packing halls and ancillary areastested under representative wet conditions
Mechanically-keyed anti-slip aggregate finishes at process-water entry pointsthe highest-priority intervention zones
Stainless steel and aluminium tread plates at platform transitionstested independently of floor
Drainage-channel grilles and floor-drain surroundshigh-incident edge zones
Generic slip testing misses the zones that actually generate incidents. Food Manufacturing sites have distinct high-risk zones that warrant independent testing.
The critical transition from washdown to dry production sees peak slip exposure — cleaning chemistry residue interacts with returning operative footwear during the most rushed period of the shift.
Condensation and ice formation at cold-store entrances creates highly localised wet-PTV failure that can drop below 0.20 if not actively managed.
Brining tanks, blanchers, and cooling tunnels drip and overflow continuously — surrounding floor PTV is consistently the lowest on site.
Concentrated wear paths develop along high-frequency trolley routes, creating linear PTV degradation that point-testing can miss.
Food manufacturing slip testing supports BRC Global Standard for Food Safety (BRCGS), which requires documented evidence that floors are 'maintained in such a way that slip risk is controlled' — UKAS ISO/IEC 17025 PTV reports are the industry-standard documentation accepted by BRC auditors. HSE INDG225 and Workplace Regulations 1992 Reg 12 apply alongside. Reports are formatted to integrate with BRC documentation and timestamped per-zone for audit-trail integrity.
A BRC AA-rated ready-meal manufacturer commissioned twice-yearly UKAS pendulum testing across high-care, low-care and cold-store zones following a near-miss audit finding from their BRC certification body. We test 68 zones across two production halls, the high-care/low-care airlocks, three cold-stores, and the goods-out loading bay. The customer's BRC certification body has cited the testing scope as exemplary in two consecutive audit reports.
Whether you operate a single industrial site, a multi-site portfolio, or an FM contractor brief covering multiple operators, we'll return a fully-costed, no-obligation quotation within one working day.
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23:00–05:00 attendance for production-floor sites by arrangement.