Grounds For Play Playgrounds Are SAFER!

Reason #1 - is our all-out commitment to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission’s Public Playground Safety Handbook. Don’t all companies use this guideline? They say they do; but if you are dealing with a distributor of an equipment line, how thorough is that distributor? Since Grounds For Play plans all aspects of the project from design through installation, playground experts remain involved in your project at every stage. And, since playground safety is determined by the finished product at your site, only a coordinated approach can provide equipment that is integrated correctly into your site along with the resilient surfacing critical to overall playground safety.

Reason #2 - is our commitment to designing obstruction-free halos around each climbing component on a complex climber. Safety guidelines require 6' of clear space around individual climbers so children will land on resilient surfaces, not on hard elements. Below is what a 6' free-fall zone looks like for an imaginary child standing on an elevated deck. The dashed line represents a 6' “halo,” or free-fall zone.  This is important for climbing equipment in regards to playground safety.

Reason #3 - is a Grounds For Play-exclusive design standard, which eliminates metal rungs that project away from the deck into the needed free-fall zone.  Our designs always incorporate playground safety. Take a look at the photos below for examples of competitors’ climbers that violate Grounds For Play’s standard.   Falls from elevated play equipment onto metal rungs have caused severe facial injuries, brain damage, broken bones, severe internal damage and death.

Metal rungs are typically only 1" to 1 1/2" in diameter but very important in playground safety. The head of a 4-year-old standing on a 4' high deck is over 7' above ground. When metal rungs project away from the deck, a falling child can strike rungs rather than falling freely to the resilient surface below.

Kids & Gravity

All Grounds For Play climbers are designed to prevent a falling child from hitting any part of the climber, and to spread out the force of a blow should a fall occur. Compare the view from a Grounds For Play deck to the views children have from some of our competitors’ climbers.  There is no reason for your child to be playing upon equipment that does not incorporate these aspects of playground safety.

Two examples of complex climbers from a bird’s eye view; theirs without 6' free-fall zones, and ours with: