CPSI-Practice Test-Final CPSC Study
Guide Questions with Guaranteed Pass
Solutions 2026/2027 Edition.
What does ASTM stand for? - Answer American Society for Testing and Materials
What does ADA stand for? - Answer Americans with Disabilities Act
What does CPSC stand for? - Answer Consumer Product Safety Commission
What does NEISS Stand for?
What do they do? - Answer National Electronic Injury Surveillance System
Keep track of playground injuries
ASTM Standards Covered in Exam
F1487
F2223
F1292 - Answer 1487 - Public Playground Use
2223 - Playground Surfacing
1292 - Impact Attenuation
What does IPEMA stand for? - Answer International Playground Equipment Manufacturers
Association
Are there federal playground safety laws? - Answer No
What is the only state to mandate inspections by CPSI? - Answer California
The ADA
,Prohibits discrimination on basis of __________ in public places - Answer Disability
What is the difference between a risk and a hazard? - Answer Children can choose to take a
risk
Hazards are unknown to a child
Define Environment - Answer All the surrounding things, conditions, and influences affecting
growth or development of living things
Play Environments develop children...
(PSCE) - Answer Physically
Cognitively
Socially
Emotionally
What is the goal of a playground inspection? - Answer To reduce life threatening and
debilitating injuries
What percent of playground injuries for each age group?
0-4:
5-9:
10-14:
15+: - Answer 26
51
15
8
What percent of children between
0-9 injured on a playground need hospitalization? - Answer 77%
Overhead reach of a 5th percentile 2-year-old - Answer 35"
Overhead reach of a 50th percentile 5-year-old - Answer 50"
,Overhead reach of a 95th percentile 12-year-old - Answer 78"
From 2009-2014, how many playground injuries were treated in an emergency room? - Answer
243,200
In 2015, how any children aged 0-12 were injured on a playground? - Answer 50.5 million
What is the most common cause of playground injury? - Answer Falls
What is the second most common cause of playground injury? - Answer Impact with other
kids and equipment
What percent of injuries are miscellaneous? - Answer 10%
What are miscellaneous injuries?
E
E
I
P
C
S - Answer Entrapment
Entanglement
Impact
Protrusions
Crush
Shear
What is the most common cause of playground deaths? - Answer Entanglement
What is the second most common cause of playground deaths? - Answer Falls
What is the third most common cause of playground deaths? - Answer Head and Neck
Entrapment
, What is the fourth most common cause of playground deaths? - Answer Impact by tipped or
loose equipment and moving swings
How many playground related deaths were there from 2009-2014 - Answer 34
What factors contribute to Playground Injuries? - Answer Improper Use
Poor Supervision
Poor Maintenance
Site Planning Issues
Installation Errors
Inappropriate Design
What is the scope of ASTM F1487
Focuses on cause of ______ and _____ - Answer Injury
Death
What is the purpose of ASTM F1487 - Answer Reduce life-threatening and debilitating injuries
ASTM F1487 Range of Users
_ percentile 2-year-old
__ percentile 12-year old
Pre-School (_-_)
School Age (_-__) - Answer 5th
95th
2-5
5-12
What ASTM Standard covers children aged 6-23 months? - Answer ASTM F2373
T/F: Compliance eliminates the need for supervision - Answer False
Guide Questions with Guaranteed Pass
Solutions 2026/2027 Edition.
What does ASTM stand for? - Answer American Society for Testing and Materials
What does ADA stand for? - Answer Americans with Disabilities Act
What does CPSC stand for? - Answer Consumer Product Safety Commission
What does NEISS Stand for?
What do they do? - Answer National Electronic Injury Surveillance System
Keep track of playground injuries
ASTM Standards Covered in Exam
F1487
F2223
F1292 - Answer 1487 - Public Playground Use
2223 - Playground Surfacing
1292 - Impact Attenuation
What does IPEMA stand for? - Answer International Playground Equipment Manufacturers
Association
Are there federal playground safety laws? - Answer No
What is the only state to mandate inspections by CPSI? - Answer California
The ADA
,Prohibits discrimination on basis of __________ in public places - Answer Disability
What is the difference between a risk and a hazard? - Answer Children can choose to take a
risk
Hazards are unknown to a child
Define Environment - Answer All the surrounding things, conditions, and influences affecting
growth or development of living things
Play Environments develop children...
(PSCE) - Answer Physically
Cognitively
Socially
Emotionally
What is the goal of a playground inspection? - Answer To reduce life threatening and
debilitating injuries
What percent of playground injuries for each age group?
0-4:
5-9:
10-14:
15+: - Answer 26
51
15
8
What percent of children between
0-9 injured on a playground need hospitalization? - Answer 77%
Overhead reach of a 5th percentile 2-year-old - Answer 35"
Overhead reach of a 50th percentile 5-year-old - Answer 50"
,Overhead reach of a 95th percentile 12-year-old - Answer 78"
From 2009-2014, how many playground injuries were treated in an emergency room? - Answer
243,200
In 2015, how any children aged 0-12 were injured on a playground? - Answer 50.5 million
What is the most common cause of playground injury? - Answer Falls
What is the second most common cause of playground injury? - Answer Impact with other
kids and equipment
What percent of injuries are miscellaneous? - Answer 10%
What are miscellaneous injuries?
E
E
I
P
C
S - Answer Entrapment
Entanglement
Impact
Protrusions
Crush
Shear
What is the most common cause of playground deaths? - Answer Entanglement
What is the second most common cause of playground deaths? - Answer Falls
What is the third most common cause of playground deaths? - Answer Head and Neck
Entrapment
, What is the fourth most common cause of playground deaths? - Answer Impact by tipped or
loose equipment and moving swings
How many playground related deaths were there from 2009-2014 - Answer 34
What factors contribute to Playground Injuries? - Answer Improper Use
Poor Supervision
Poor Maintenance
Site Planning Issues
Installation Errors
Inappropriate Design
What is the scope of ASTM F1487
Focuses on cause of ______ and _____ - Answer Injury
Death
What is the purpose of ASTM F1487 - Answer Reduce life-threatening and debilitating injuries
ASTM F1487 Range of Users
_ percentile 2-year-old
__ percentile 12-year old
Pre-School (_-_)
School Age (_-__) - Answer 5th
95th
2-5
5-12
What ASTM Standard covers children aged 6-23 months? - Answer ASTM F2373
T/F: Compliance eliminates the need for supervision - Answer False
