PLAYGROUND SAFETY INSPECTOR CERTIFICATION 2025
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔minimum user - ✔✔a 2 year old child; measurement characteristics are the 5th
percentile values for combined sexes
✔✔partially bounded opening - ✔✔Any opening in a piece of play equipment that is not
totally enclosed by boundaries on all sides so that the perimeter of the opening is
discontinuous
✔✔platform - ✔✔flat surface, intended for more than one user to stand, and upon which
users can move freely
✔✔play structure - ✔✔free standing structure with one or more components and their
supporting members
✔✔preventive maintenance - ✔✔planned program of inspections and maintenance
intended to keep equipment functioning properly and to forestall equipment failures
✔✔Professional Judgement - ✔✔ability of a qualified person in the field of playgrounds/
playground equipment design, use, or operations to render an opinion, decision, or
both, concerning a matter within that field of experience
✔✔Projection - ✔✔condition which, due to its physical nature, must be tested to the
requirements of this standard to determine whether it is a protrusion or entanglement
hazard or both
✔✔protective barrier - ✔✔Enclosing device around an elevated surface that prevents
both inadvertent and deliberate attempts to pass through the device.
✔✔protective surfacing - ✔✔material(s) to be used within the use zone of any
playground equipment
✔✔protrusion - ✔✔A projection which, when tested in accordance with the requirements
of this standard, is found to be a hazard having the potential to cause bodily injury to a
user who impacts it.
✔✔Public use playground equipment - ✔✔play structure for use in play areas of
schools, parks, child care facilities, institutions, multiple-family dwellings, private resorts
and recreation developments, restaurants, and other areas of public use
✔✔Qualified person - ✔✔one with current knowledge, training, skill, education, and
experience who has successfully demonstrated the ability to solve or resolve problems
, relating to the subject matter and work through the application of professional
judgement
✔✔rocking/springing equipment - ✔✔any play structure that rocks about a fixed base
✔✔rotating equipment - ✔✔any play structure intended to support the weight of the
users that revolves about an axis at any angle and is intended to resolve repeatedly
✔✔rung - ✔✔crosspiece in a ladder or other climbing equipment used for supporting the
user's feet or for grasping by the user's hands, or both
✔✔sharp edge - ✔✔edge that can cut a user's skin
✔✔sharp point - ✔✔point that can puncture or lacerate a user's skin during use
✔✔signal word - ✔✔word that designates a degree or level of hazzard
✔✔small part - ✔✔object that may become detached and presents a choking,
aspiration, or ingestion hazard to the user
✔✔stability - ✔✔ability of the playground equipment to withstand anticipated forces
which act to tip or slide the playground equipment when properly assembled or
installed.
✔✔stair - ✔✔device having a slope of 50° or less from a horizontal plane and consisting
of a series of steps that can be used for ascending and descending
✔✔stationary equipment - ✔✔any play structure which has a fixed base and does not
move
✔✔step - ✔✔horizontal flat crosspiece of a ladder or stair used primarily as a foot
support
✔✔stepping forms - ✔✔one or more individual, elevated, freestanding devices used to
provide balance experiences which may also be used as an access or egress
component
✔✔swing - ✔✔an element or seat suspended from an elevated support structure so as
to allow users to move freely in one or more planes and possess a pivot point greater
than 24 in (610 mm) when measured vertically from the top of the suspended element
to the pivot point
✔✔swing bay - ✔✔space beneath the overhead beam bounded by one or more
supports on which swing assembly or assemblies are attached
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔minimum user - ✔✔a 2 year old child; measurement characteristics are the 5th
percentile values for combined sexes
✔✔partially bounded opening - ✔✔Any opening in a piece of play equipment that is not
totally enclosed by boundaries on all sides so that the perimeter of the opening is
discontinuous
✔✔platform - ✔✔flat surface, intended for more than one user to stand, and upon which
users can move freely
✔✔play structure - ✔✔free standing structure with one or more components and their
supporting members
✔✔preventive maintenance - ✔✔planned program of inspections and maintenance
intended to keep equipment functioning properly and to forestall equipment failures
✔✔Professional Judgement - ✔✔ability of a qualified person in the field of playgrounds/
playground equipment design, use, or operations to render an opinion, decision, or
both, concerning a matter within that field of experience
✔✔Projection - ✔✔condition which, due to its physical nature, must be tested to the
requirements of this standard to determine whether it is a protrusion or entanglement
hazard or both
✔✔protective barrier - ✔✔Enclosing device around an elevated surface that prevents
both inadvertent and deliberate attempts to pass through the device.
✔✔protective surfacing - ✔✔material(s) to be used within the use zone of any
playground equipment
✔✔protrusion - ✔✔A projection which, when tested in accordance with the requirements
of this standard, is found to be a hazard having the potential to cause bodily injury to a
user who impacts it.
✔✔Public use playground equipment - ✔✔play structure for use in play areas of
schools, parks, child care facilities, institutions, multiple-family dwellings, private resorts
and recreation developments, restaurants, and other areas of public use
✔✔Qualified person - ✔✔one with current knowledge, training, skill, education, and
experience who has successfully demonstrated the ability to solve or resolve problems
, relating to the subject matter and work through the application of professional
judgement
✔✔rocking/springing equipment - ✔✔any play structure that rocks about a fixed base
✔✔rotating equipment - ✔✔any play structure intended to support the weight of the
users that revolves about an axis at any angle and is intended to resolve repeatedly
✔✔rung - ✔✔crosspiece in a ladder or other climbing equipment used for supporting the
user's feet or for grasping by the user's hands, or both
✔✔sharp edge - ✔✔edge that can cut a user's skin
✔✔sharp point - ✔✔point that can puncture or lacerate a user's skin during use
✔✔signal word - ✔✔word that designates a degree or level of hazzard
✔✔small part - ✔✔object that may become detached and presents a choking,
aspiration, or ingestion hazard to the user
✔✔stability - ✔✔ability of the playground equipment to withstand anticipated forces
which act to tip or slide the playground equipment when properly assembled or
installed.
✔✔stair - ✔✔device having a slope of 50° or less from a horizontal plane and consisting
of a series of steps that can be used for ascending and descending
✔✔stationary equipment - ✔✔any play structure which has a fixed base and does not
move
✔✔step - ✔✔horizontal flat crosspiece of a ladder or stair used primarily as a foot
support
✔✔stepping forms - ✔✔one or more individual, elevated, freestanding devices used to
provide balance experiences which may also be used as an access or egress
component
✔✔swing - ✔✔an element or seat suspended from an elevated support structure so as
to allow users to move freely in one or more planes and possess a pivot point greater
than 24 in (610 mm) when measured vertically from the top of the suspended element
to the pivot point
✔✔swing bay - ✔✔space beneath the overhead beam bounded by one or more
supports on which swing assembly or assemblies are attached
