About ABC Playground Safety
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Playground Services:
- Audit of Playground Equipment
- Playground Surface Testing
- ADA Accessibility Testing
- Development of Maintenance Programs
- Instruction on Playground issues
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"Unfortunately, more than 200,000 children
are treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms
each year for injuries associated with
playground equipment. Most injuries occur
when children fall from the equipment onto
the ground."
-Ann Brown, Chairman, U.S. Consumer
Product and Safety Commission |
 This is why ABC Playground Safety has
purchased, and staff has been trained with,
an ASTM F1292-99 Standards Committee
approved Free Fall Surface Testing System.
This system allows ABC Playground Safety to
examine your surfacing on site to detect
whether it complies with ASTM F1292-99. A
point of clarification: the ASTM1487-01
provides more detailed information on Fall
Height measurements than the CPSC handbook,
therefore ABC Playground Safety uses the
ASTM document to identify fall Heights. The
ASTM F1292-99 Section 13.2.1 states that the
auditor should "Carry for the impact tests
at the drop height specified by the
owner/operator." If you do not supply a drop
height, ABC Playground Safety will test the
highest fall heights from the tallest piece
of equipment's use zone per type of
surfacing (one per site). The below stated
price is for sites with three or less
surfacing types (i.e. poured-in-place,
rubber tiles, sand or wood chips). Each
"drop" consists of three head from drops in
three different areas.Playground
Services
All services involving playgrounds
incorporate the requirements of the
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC),
and the American Society of Testing
Materials (ASTM). |
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