Volume 22, Issue 1 January 2020 ASTM F3351-20 Standard Test Method for Playground Surface Impact Testing in Laboratory at Specified Height is the latest testing from ASTM that allows owners to request surfaces that perform better than the ASTM F1292 “critical height” and failure...
Infilled synthetic turf systems are typically termed the 3rd generation of synthetic turf and accepted by North American Footfall in the 1990s and Football (soccer) such as UEFA in 2002 as “nearly equivalent to natural turf” for play.
The hazard identification and risk assessment approach provides significant advantages to the 179 development of new play, recreation and sport environments when used by designers, manufacturers, 180 installers, owner/operators and maintainers to assess the risks that could lead to harm to persons.
Although impacts with the surface following a fall were by far the leading cause of serious, debilitating injuries and the fourth for deaths in playgrounds, surfacing remained an afterthought. During the 1980s the surface under playgrounds consisted of asphalt or concrete or the progressive dumping of sand into a box.
The issue of prevention of injury, primarily head injuries, has been a concern of manufacturers, designers, owners and users of synthetic turf fields. For more than 45 years impact attenuation has been measured through the use of ASTM F355, Procedure A.
CDC, Science and Medicine Chart New Course for Playgrounds There are two very opposite views of injury prevention in playgrounds. We have those who have long recognized the devastating effects of head injuries in playgrounds...
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