According to Burton, there was no indication that this play equipment had ever undergone a proper safety audit by a certified inspector. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which tracks playground accidents, estimates that approximately 156,000 injuries that require emergency room care occur on public playgrounds each year, indicating that- despite years of education efforts-playground safety remains an ongoing issue.
Around the same time, the town's park and recreation department contacted Robin Moore, a professor of landscape architecture and a leading authority on how to incorporate the natural environment into the daily play experiences of children. By understanding these issues with playgrounds and following guidelines from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Handbook for Public Playground Safety ( 1997), safety at playgrounds has been drastically improved.
[...] modern playgrounds pay homage to the lure and demands of swings, slides, bars and seesaws, taking them as a literal jumping off point into a world populated with "structures," "play events," "transitions," "water elements," "components" and "surfacing." The 1981 release of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)'s "Handbook for Public Playground Safety" introduced specific guidelines to meet the sizes, weights and relative strengths of children in two age groups: age 2 to 5 years old and those age 5 to 12. Playground equipment makers are introducing more daring components, using urban, industrial materials like galvanized metal, sporting space-age designs reminiscent of atomic structures and geodesic domes, and striving for a more adventurous use of movement.
... clavicle and femur after falling off a playground slide on property owned and maintained by defendan...Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) Handbook for Pu...
Playground safety is not the responsibility of any one group, but rather a cooperative effort that begins with the establishment of standards and guidelines, and concludes with a play environment that lets children explore, learn, and develop. Too much emphasis, Spease continues, is placed on the fact that people are crying that ASTM (originally the American Society for Testing and Materials) and CPSC (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) [standards] have reduced the quality level of play.
Drawstrings at Neck and Waist Present Strangulation Hazard and Other Dangers WASHINGTON, July 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted (5-0) today to approve a new federal safety rule for drawstrings in children's outerwear. The final rule designates children's upper outerwear in sizes 2T through 12, with neck or hood drawstrings, and children's upper outerwear in sizes 2T through 16, with certain waist or bottom drawstrings, as substantial product hazards. Drawstrings can catch or become entangled with objects, such as a car door or playground slide, posing dragging, strangulation entrapment hazards to children.
PITTSBURGH, April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The start of spring marks the return of millions of children to playgrounds across the United States. This time of year also underscores the need to ensure that children stay safe on the playground. In honor of National Playground Safety Week (April 25-29), LTR Products, manufacturer of Pinnacle Rubber Mulch, is offering some tips and advice for how to make playgrounds safer this spring and all year long. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091202/NE20014LOGO)
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The Charleston lawyer who filed two lawsuits against the Cabell County school board over playground injuries said he never intended for swing sets to be taken down. Dan Greear, who is seeking a Kanawha Circuit judge seat in the November general election, said of Cabell County's angst over the play equipment, "I think that's ridiculous. We certainly didn't start this out to remove swing sets.
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Resources * For general information, go online to Ehow.com at www.ehow.com/how_109358_buy-backyard-play.html. s For more information on playground safety, see the Consumer Product Safety Commissions Outdoor Home Playground Safety Handbook. You can download a copy online at www.cpsc.gov or write the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Office of Information and Public Affairs, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, or e-mail info@cpsc.gov. Safety tips Safety is a huge factor in selecting playground equipment. Every year about 200,000 children are treated in U.S. emergency rooms for playground-related accidents, according to the U.S. Product Safety Commission. Here are some recommendations on safety from the commission and from the American Academy of Pediatrics. * To prevent hea...
Spring brings trips to parks and playgrounds and slips, falls, bruises and burns that can land children in the emergency room. But doctors say there are steps parents can take to keep their children injury-free, and many involve common sense.
... themselves to ensure their children's safety on such equipment by using it with them. But that'...She pointed to 2009 U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission data that showed there ...
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