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PLAYGROUND SAFETY INSPECTOR | Updated
| 100% Guaranteed | Verified | A+
• Layout Guidelines (6) -✓✓1. Accessibility
2. Age Separation
3. Sight Lines
4. Conflicting Activities
5. Signage
6. Supervision
• Accessibility -✓✓Ensure that all playground equipment is equal access and wheelchair
friendly. Complies with ADA and ASTM standard F1951 for wheelchair accessibility and
propulsion.
• Age Separation -✓✓Pathways, landscaping, and playground equipment that caters to
differing ages. Note - developmental differences that make this important
• Sight Lines -✓✓Layout of playground should minimize visual barriers so that
caregivers can provide adequate supervision.
• Conflicting Activities -✓✓High motion and passive activities should not be placed next
to each other. Slide exits should be kept away from other activities.
• Signage -✓✓Playgrounds should always include signs about age appropriate-ness for
various equipment.
• Supervision -✓✓Caregivers should understand that supervision is a must on public
playgrounds to help prevent injury.
• Access and Egress (4) -✓✓Ramps, Wide Stairway, Stepladder, Vertical Rung Ladder
• Ramp -✓✓Easiest access and egress to navigate. Max length 144in. Max width 36in.
Slope 1:12. HANDRAILS.
• Transfer Platforms -✓✓Used to get from assistive devices to play equipment. Low
slope, wide tread, handrails. Total height of platform = 11-18'
Steps = 14"D x 24"W(min) x 8"H(max)
• Stepladders -✓✓ages 5-12 ONLY for narrow tread. ages 2-5 must have wide tread
, • Slope, tread, open/closed risers, all depend on ? -✓✓AGE
• Handrails (childs hand should wrap?) -✓✓at least 73% around
• Platforms for (2-5) must have support if? -✓✓foot and hand rail support if greater than
12" between them
• Platforms for (5-12) must have support if? -✓✓foot and hand rail support if greater than
18" between them
• Arch Climbers (specifications) -✓✓NOT sole means of access for 2-5 year olds. MUST
attach at or below platform
• Flexible Components (specs) -✓✓NOT sole means of access, attached at both ends,
wide enough for 2-5 years to bring both feet to each rung, and anchored BENEATH
surfacing.
• Guardrails and barriers are used to? -✓✓prevent inadvertent falls
• Fall prevention for 2-5 years (heights and needs) -✓✓under 20" (nothing)
20"-30" (guardrails required)
over 30" (barriers required)
• Fall prevention for 5-12 years (heights and needs) -✓✓under 30" (nothing)
30"-48" (guardrails required)
over 48" (barriers required)
• max opening for guardrails and barriers -✓✓less than 15" (users need to exit single
file)
• Designated Playing Surface -✓✓flat, larger than 2"x2", 30 degrees from level, elevated
surface that can be used for sitting, walking, climbing, or standing.
• Guardrails boundary for 2-5 years -✓✓max opening at lower boundary 23"
• guardrails boundary for 5-12 years -✓✓max opening at lower boundary = 28"
• Platform/Bridge/Walkway -✓✓flat surface where multiple people can move freely,
horizontal, +/-2 degrees, does hold water
• Roofs 84" above playing surface -✓✓can be any angle. roof supports should
discourage climbing.
• Roofs 84" below playing surface -✓✓roof should not cover playing surface.
PLAYGROUND SAFETY INSPECTOR | Updated
| 100% Guaranteed | Verified | A+
• Layout Guidelines (6) -✓✓1. Accessibility
2. Age Separation
3. Sight Lines
4. Conflicting Activities
5. Signage
6. Supervision
• Accessibility -✓✓Ensure that all playground equipment is equal access and wheelchair
friendly. Complies with ADA and ASTM standard F1951 for wheelchair accessibility and
propulsion.
• Age Separation -✓✓Pathways, landscaping, and playground equipment that caters to
differing ages. Note - developmental differences that make this important
• Sight Lines -✓✓Layout of playground should minimize visual barriers so that
caregivers can provide adequate supervision.
• Conflicting Activities -✓✓High motion and passive activities should not be placed next
to each other. Slide exits should be kept away from other activities.
• Signage -✓✓Playgrounds should always include signs about age appropriate-ness for
various equipment.
• Supervision -✓✓Caregivers should understand that supervision is a must on public
playgrounds to help prevent injury.
• Access and Egress (4) -✓✓Ramps, Wide Stairway, Stepladder, Vertical Rung Ladder
• Ramp -✓✓Easiest access and egress to navigate. Max length 144in. Max width 36in.
Slope 1:12. HANDRAILS.
• Transfer Platforms -✓✓Used to get from assistive devices to play equipment. Low
slope, wide tread, handrails. Total height of platform = 11-18'
Steps = 14"D x 24"W(min) x 8"H(max)
• Stepladders -✓✓ages 5-12 ONLY for narrow tread. ages 2-5 must have wide tread
, • Slope, tread, open/closed risers, all depend on ? -✓✓AGE
• Handrails (childs hand should wrap?) -✓✓at least 73% around
• Platforms for (2-5) must have support if? -✓✓foot and hand rail support if greater than
12" between them
• Platforms for (5-12) must have support if? -✓✓foot and hand rail support if greater than
18" between them
• Arch Climbers (specifications) -✓✓NOT sole means of access for 2-5 year olds. MUST
attach at or below platform
• Flexible Components (specs) -✓✓NOT sole means of access, attached at both ends,
wide enough for 2-5 years to bring both feet to each rung, and anchored BENEATH
surfacing.
• Guardrails and barriers are used to? -✓✓prevent inadvertent falls
• Fall prevention for 2-5 years (heights and needs) -✓✓under 20" (nothing)
20"-30" (guardrails required)
over 30" (barriers required)
• Fall prevention for 5-12 years (heights and needs) -✓✓under 30" (nothing)
30"-48" (guardrails required)
over 48" (barriers required)
• max opening for guardrails and barriers -✓✓less than 15" (users need to exit single
file)
• Designated Playing Surface -✓✓flat, larger than 2"x2", 30 degrees from level, elevated
surface that can be used for sitting, walking, climbing, or standing.
• Guardrails boundary for 2-5 years -✓✓max opening at lower boundary 23"
• guardrails boundary for 5-12 years -✓✓max opening at lower boundary = 28"
• Platform/Bridge/Walkway -✓✓flat surface where multiple people can move freely,
horizontal, +/-2 degrees, does hold water
• Roofs 84" above playing surface -✓✓can be any angle. roof supports should
discourage climbing.
• Roofs 84" below playing surface -✓✓roof should not cover playing surface.
