Largest town in Powys — major retail centre for Mid Wales.
Newtown (Y Drenewydd) sits within the Powys principal area of Mid Wales. Its commercial profile centres on retail & commercial estate, which shapes the type of slip-testing work we typically carry out here.
What we test in Newtown.
Retail premises in Newtown generate the bulk of slip and trip exposure — polished stone entrance zones, wet-weather drag-in, beverage spills on café tiling, and high-footfall gangways in supermarkets and shopping centres.
- Entrance matting and threshold zones
- Café and coffee-shop floors
- Supermarket frozen aisles and checkouts
- Public toilets and changing rooms
- Loading bays and back-of-house corridors
Attendance in Newtown is coordinated with our wider Powys schedule. Most site visits are booked within 7–14 working days; urgent post-incident attendance can often be arranged faster. All reporting is UKAS ISO/IEC 17025 accredited and delivered within 48 hours of the site visit.
Why Newtown businesses test their floors.
Every commercial premises in Wales — whether a corner shop in Newtown or a multi-site retailer operating across Cymru — carries a statutory duty under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 to assess and manage slip risk. Insurance providers increasingly require documented PTV evidence at renewal, particularly where a previous claim has been filed or defended.
The pendulum test is the method HSE explicitly references for assessing slip resistance under wet conditions — the conditions in which the overwhelming majority of slip incidents actually occur. A dry-only reading tells you very little about how a floor performs when spillage, rain drag-in, cleaning water or other contaminants are present.