Poured In Place Safety Surface

The playground surface protection is often the most neglected security at home games. While about 80% of public playgrounds have some form of shock-absorbing protective coating for equipment for children, only 9% of playgrounds backyard home to, as a playground for injuries study conducted in 2001 by the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC). The study revealed that among the approximately 50,000 accidents a year associated with home playground equipment backyard, 69% of injuries were the result of falls on a non-protective equipment below.

Perhaps the most familiar options backyard game surface is grass and dirt surface but neither adequately protects children against serious injury from falls, falls that occur even from 30 inches or less above the ground. Fractures of the hand and arm, cuts and bruises to the head and face are the most commonly reported injuries resulting from children falling from playground equipment on a playground surface failure to protect such the grass or earth, as reported by the CPSC.

The good news is that the number of playing surfaces are available for protection that meet the security requirements appropriate playground. As expected, the options for playing surface in the range of cost affordable to expensive, and each option has its pros and cons list. Given the positive and negative characteristics of each type of material of the playing surface, as presented in this article should give you enough information to choose the best option for gaming surface for your playground bass court.

The first refers to the height and the most vital piece of information to know before choosing a material to be used for the surface of your playground of protection is the critical height of playground equipment. critical height "maximum descent from which a head injury, the prognosis would not be expected to occur." The critical height of your play equipment is equal to the height (in feet) of your upper playground equipment backyard that is accessible to children. The playing surface protection for you decide on your playground backyard must be installed with a depth that is suitable for critical height of your equipment.

Detailed information on the effect of the critical height (in feet) for each bulk material surface described in this article when it was tested in an uncompressed state at depths of 6, 9 to 12 inches. The information ] [also shows the critical height when a 9-inch depth of each material was tested in a compressed state. "For example, if the critical height of your play equipment yard is 8 feet, then your best choice Protection for bulk material surface, according to the information below, would be 9 inches of wood chips compressed or uncompressed, 9 inches of shredded bark mulch uncompressed, 12-inch sand play uncompressed 12 inches of gravel uncompressed, or 6 inches of mulch recycled rubber uncompressed.

Wood Chips *
Six inches of depth, uncompressed = 7 feet
Nine inch depth, uncompressed = 10 feet
Twelve inches deep, uncompressed = 11 feet
Nine inches deep, compressed = 10 feet

* This product may also be referred to as wood mulch, but the term Wood Chips more accurately describes the product.

SHREDDED bark mulch
Six inches deep, uncompressed = 6 feet
Nine inch depth, uncompressed = 10 feet
Twelve inches deep, uncompressed = 11 feet
Nine inches deep, compressed = 7 feet

Wood fibers ENGINEERING **
Six inches deep, u.