Module 1: Overview
Section 1: Navigating the Course - ANS -
ASTM - ANS -American Society for Testing and Materials
ADA - ANS -Americans with Disabilities Act
The course addresses: - ANS -- topics covered on current ASTM standards (2017)
- Americans with Disabilities Act standards for accessible designs
Playground related standards and guidelines include: - ANS -- Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC)
--> Public Playground Safety Handbook
related standards and guidelines (continued): - ANS -- Department of Justice
--> ADA guidelines and standards
related standards and guidelines (continued): - ANS -- CPSI resource
- CPSI Candidate Handbook
- Daily Dozen: A 12 - point playground safety checklist
- Playground Safety is No Accident: 5th Edition
- CPSI inspection kit
related standards and guidelines (continued): - ANS -ASTM Standards
ASTM F1487 - ANS -Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Playground
Equipment and Public Use.
ASTM F1292 - ANS -Standard Specification for Impact Attenuation of Surfacing Materials within
the Use Zone of Playground Equipment
ASTM F2223 (19 a.) - ANS -Standard Guide for ASTM Standards on Playground Surfacing
Other resources include: - ANS -- ASTM international
- CPSC
- IPEMA
- NPCAI
- IPSI
- US Play Coalition
- Canadian standards Association
, Section 2: Laws and Regulations - ANS -- There is no Federal Playground Safety law
- Federal action is overseen by CPSC
- State legislation adhere to ASTM and CPSC
Federal action overseen by CPSC include - ANS -- provide federal guidelines
- authority to issue product recalls
State legislation adherence to ASTM/CPSC include: - ANS -- CA is the only state to mandate
inspections by CPSI
- If there is NO law then standards and guidelines become playground safety criteria used as a
legal "standard of care".
- may not be fully attainable by public agencies.
ADA - ANS -- prohibit discrimination on basis of disability in public places
- In 2012, they require agencies to have plan to make all playgrounds installed after 1990
compliant by March 2015.
- Section 1008 of the 2010 Standards for Accessible Design identified criteria for design,
construction, and alteration of public play areas and references compliance with ASTM
standards where applicable.
ASTM - ANS -- voluntary standards
Development of ASTM standards: - ANS -- information relating to injuries
- industry experience
- Risk Mgmt and Litigation
- anthropometrics
Information relating to injuries comes from: - ANS -National Electronic Injury Surveillance
System
- tell where, how and whom
Risk management and litigation - ANS -- insurance claims
---> identify hazards
Anthropometrics - ANS -ergonomic design
Major Organizations include: - ANS -- national playground safety institute
National Playground Safety Institute - ANS -- Program of NRPA
- developed CPSI course
- NPSI no longer exists
---> now an education program of NRPA
- IPEMA
Section 1: Navigating the Course - ANS -
ASTM - ANS -American Society for Testing and Materials
ADA - ANS -Americans with Disabilities Act
The course addresses: - ANS -- topics covered on current ASTM standards (2017)
- Americans with Disabilities Act standards for accessible designs
Playground related standards and guidelines include: - ANS -- Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC)
--> Public Playground Safety Handbook
related standards and guidelines (continued): - ANS -- Department of Justice
--> ADA guidelines and standards
related standards and guidelines (continued): - ANS -- CPSI resource
- CPSI Candidate Handbook
- Daily Dozen: A 12 - point playground safety checklist
- Playground Safety is No Accident: 5th Edition
- CPSI inspection kit
related standards and guidelines (continued): - ANS -ASTM Standards
ASTM F1487 - ANS -Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Playground
Equipment and Public Use.
ASTM F1292 - ANS -Standard Specification for Impact Attenuation of Surfacing Materials within
the Use Zone of Playground Equipment
ASTM F2223 (19 a.) - ANS -Standard Guide for ASTM Standards on Playground Surfacing
Other resources include: - ANS -- ASTM international
- CPSC
- IPEMA
- NPCAI
- IPSI
- US Play Coalition
- Canadian standards Association
, Section 2: Laws and Regulations - ANS -- There is no Federal Playground Safety law
- Federal action is overseen by CPSC
- State legislation adhere to ASTM and CPSC
Federal action overseen by CPSC include - ANS -- provide federal guidelines
- authority to issue product recalls
State legislation adherence to ASTM/CPSC include: - ANS -- CA is the only state to mandate
inspections by CPSI
- If there is NO law then standards and guidelines become playground safety criteria used as a
legal "standard of care".
- may not be fully attainable by public agencies.
ADA - ANS -- prohibit discrimination on basis of disability in public places
- In 2012, they require agencies to have plan to make all playgrounds installed after 1990
compliant by March 2015.
- Section 1008 of the 2010 Standards for Accessible Design identified criteria for design,
construction, and alteration of public play areas and references compliance with ASTM
standards where applicable.
ASTM - ANS -- voluntary standards
Development of ASTM standards: - ANS -- information relating to injuries
- industry experience
- Risk Mgmt and Litigation
- anthropometrics
Information relating to injuries comes from: - ANS -National Electronic Injury Surveillance
System
- tell where, how and whom
Risk management and litigation - ANS -- insurance claims
---> identify hazards
Anthropometrics - ANS -ergonomic design
Major Organizations include: - ANS -- national playground safety institute
National Playground Safety Institute - ANS -- Program of NRPA
- developed CPSI course
- NPSI no longer exists
---> now an education program of NRPA
- IPEMA
