Slip Test Services

Safe Environments provide floor slip test services throughout the life cycle of a building to assess compliance with relevant building codes and legislation. Our floor slip test laboratory provide initial slip test results and certification to demonstrate initial compliance of proposed surfaces within a building.

Slip Check is NATA accredited facility to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories to ensure that you recieve the most accurate and reliable test results availble. NATA is the authority that provides independent assurance of technical competence of industry experts.

The scope of the NATA accreditation includes wet and dry slip resistance testing to AS/NZS 4663 Slip resistance measurement of existing pedestrian surfaces, AS/NZS 4586 Slip resistance classification of new pedestrian surface materials and BS 7976 Part 3 Pendulum Testers Method of calibration.

Slip Check is a Registered Slip Testing Authority located in Sydney & Melbourne as defined by the Building Code of Australia. Our NATA endorsed slip resistance test reports provide evidence of suitability to comply with building code and regulations.

Slip Test Methods

The four slip test methods within the Australian Standards AS NZS 4586 Slip resistance classification of pedestrian surface materials comprise:

• Wet pendulum floor slip test
• Dry floor friction floor slip test
• Wet barefoot slip floor test
• Oil wet ramp slip floor test

Slip Test Certification

Safe Environments provide certification using slip test results and review of other important design features to ensure that your design complies with relevant building codes and legislation. In addition, Safe Environments being based in Sydney, provides accelerated wear slip test results which provide a useful indicator of potential wear and the risk of slip over time. The accelerated wear slip test can mitigate the risk when specifying materials that have a propensity to drop in slip resistance over a relatively short period of time.

Slip Test Services for BCA Compliance

Our onsite floor slip test services provide verification that installed surfaces meet the requirements of the Building Code of Australia (BCA) Standards Australia & CSIRO Handbook HB 197 An Introductory Guide to the Slip Resistance of Pedestrian Surface Materials throughout Sydney, NSW, Melbourne, Victoria, and Canberra ACT. Slip test results that do not meet the recommendations of Standards Australia & CSIRO Handbook HB197 may not necessarily be unsafe. Safe Environments can provide further analysis of slip test results in conjunction with a risk assessment and evaluation of possible control measures.

Onsite floor Slip Test & Assessment Services

Ongoing floor slip test audits provide peace of mind to provide information to validate compliance and level of floor safety.  Regular floor slip tests will also indicate whether a surface has dropped significantly or if there are small ongoing changes to determine if interventional measures may be required. A slip test on sample treatments of anti slip, non slip or non skid treatments allows transparent, accountable information to conduct a cost benefit analysis.

Expert Witness Slip Test Services

If a slip accident occurs, Safe Environments have expert witness services for slip and falls to provide a detailed report based on floor slip test results to assess the situation on factual, relevant information.