Backyard Play area Standards.

Almost everyone has fond memories of childhood playgrounds and you should not bring to mind playgrounds as dangerous places where injuries and perhaps deaths happen. According to the National Program for Playground Safety, 200,000 children per year are injured in public places playground equipment and yet another 50,000 are injured on home appliances. An individual Product Safety Commission has issued voluntary public and residential playground standards to avoid the accidents that send children on the hospital.

SIGNIFICANCE
As you move the CPSC standards are voluntary, the National Program for Playground Safety encourages all states to take the standards as law. Since 2010, 16 states have passed laws requiring all or part of the standards that must be followed. The NPPS offers training programs for varsity personnel, childcare providers, federal state and local officials or any person who might gain benefit from the program.

IDENTIFICATION OF HAZARDS
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's research shows that 79 percent of injuries in public playgrounds were a result of falls from equipment. Sharp edges, collisions, hot surfaces and protrusions also cause injury. Fatal injuries were caused by falls, head entrapment and entanglement in ropes or clothing.

FEATURES
The finish below trampoline game needs to absorb shock to relieve head injuries in the eventuality of falls. Appropriate materials are stones, sand, shredded rubber mulch, and wood mulch or chips not chemically treated. Dirt and grass are certainly not acceptable. The CPSC addresses proper layout of playgrounds. Equipment and play areas have to be situated so caretakers can easily see and monitor activity. The standards also address entrapment hazards in which a child slides his body via an opening but his head won't fit. This could result in the child to dangle, which is a strangulation hazard. Holistic rule is openings need to be small compared to 3 1/2 inches so the child cannot fit his body through, or 9 inches so the body and head would slide through. Instructions for assembly and maintenance are also addressed.

AGE STANDARDS
The CPSC recommends that playgrounds are designed to be age appropriate. Different ages and development stages need various kinds of equipment. The safety standards divide this groups. Toddlers are 6 months to two years old, preschool age kids are 2 to 5 yrs old, and school age are 5 through 12 years old. The CPSC standards address age variations in regard to styles of equipment, size and how playgrounds are presented.

SAFETY TIPS
The NPPS advises parents to read the standards and inspect home playgrounds and public playgrounds for their area for safety hazards. Also, children should have supervision when you use trampoline game. Ropes. leashes or strings ought to be removed before allowing children to experiment with. Children probably should not wear bicycle helmets throughout the playground since the helmet can get caught on equipment and pose a strangulation hazard. When you spot any heavy animal swings, ask them to removed. They will cause injury when they hit a young child, and were recalled in 1995.