Listed below are 99 pages and documents accessible within this website, organized under 3 main link categories: Menu links =6; Icon links =21; INFOto links =63; plus 9 others, which are grouped into related topics. We've also included 6 outside website links to more info. 

 

If you require any additional information about anything on this website, our products and their applications, please feel free to contact us, so we may promptly respond to your request and assist you with your specific needs.

 

Menu links

These are the main menu selections, leading to  the main pages with icon-based links (the green oval outlines with custom icons inside), which access in-depth information about each topic in text, plus INFOto graphic-based links.

 

• Home page

• Info page

• Ordering

• Playground

• Landscaping

• Contact

 

Icon links

These are the pages with the most in-depth text information on the website, with graphic INFOto links.

 

Playground structures & safety

• Playground equipment
• Playground slides

• Playground swings

• Teeter-totters
• Climbing walls

 

Comparing safety surfaces

• Compare surfaces

Helpful information

• Safety zones & depths
• Area calculation
• Color options

• Easy installation tips

• Schools, churches, synagogues, mosques, etc.

 

Product features & benefits

• #1 for safety
• No more pests
• Retain moisture

• Environmental benefits 

• Cost savings

• Time is money

• Water impact

• Wind impact

 

Other product uses

• Dog runs & kennels
• Equestrian arenas

 

INFOto links

These are mostly short pages & brief reads, reinforcing the INFOto graphic through descriptive text. 

 

Photos tend to convey so much, so quickly and easily. We decided to include a short text statement within each one, creating what we call informational photos, or INFOtos, and there are 63 of them. They are placed throughout the website. Clicking on any of them enlarges that INFOto to fill your screen, making it easier to read. Clicking on the text beneath each INFOto opens up a page dedicated to it, containing relevant descriptive text.

 

Playground planning info

• Playground skills

• Unsafe standards

• Safety planning

• Age appropriate play
• ADA access
• Safety zones & depths

• Safe playtime

• Adult supervision
• Playground injuries
• Fall safety surfaces
• Proper sub-base
• Sub-base install
• Nesting material

• Play area upkeep

• Neglected & unsafe

• Improper drainage

• Dispersion
   - impact attentuation method

• Compression
   - impact attentuation method

 

Playground equipment info

• Unsafe play structures

• Slide safety

• Swing safety

• Hand strength

• Changes in play

• Safety changes

• Deemed unsafe

• Banned & unsafe

• Unintended uses

• Climbing falls

• Climbing injuries

 

Wood products

• Wood issues
• Wood splinters
• Wood mulch migrates

• Termites like wood

• Black slime mold

• Slime mold hazards

• Attacking plants

• Wood fungus

 

Playground sand

• Sand problems

• Animals & birds

• Pathogenic sand
• Microbial habitat
• Keep it covered

 

Pour-In-Place (PIP)

• PIP dangers

• PIP costs & safety

• PIP hazards

• PIP injuries

• PIP damage

 

Product benefits & colors

• Safety & savings

• ADA certified

• Blow away leaves

• Stays in place

• Saving with safety

• Blending colors

• Red rubber mulch

• Brown rubber mulch

• Green rubber mulch

• Blue rubber mulch

• Black rubber mulch

 

Product info & add'l uses

• Recycling tires
   - environmental benefits

• Landscaping
   - common areas, medians, etc.

• Equestrian arenas
   - dressage, jumping, etc.

• Military training
   - hand-to-hand, gauntlet, etc.

• In-fill impact safety
   - synthetic turf sports fields

 

Docs & legal links

Here are a few PDF documents and the obligatory legal stuff for the website.

 

PDF documents

A PDF reader application is required to view these documents (which will open in another window if PDF viewing is enabled in your browser).

 

• Playground cut-away drawing with drainage

• Playground sand info sheet

• USRM sales terms & conditions 

 

Legal stuff

• Site terms & conditions

• Site privacy policy

 

Outside links

We felt providing 6 outside links to additional information for much of what is stated and referenced within this website might be helpful and useful.

 

SafestPlayground.com

So many outside websites (governmental agencies, etc.) with valuable reference information are constantly changing, which create "dead" links when url or web addresses are modified, and obviously these changes are beyond our control. What we can control indirectly is a website with playground safety information created years ago by this company's founder, while a certified playground safety inspector (CPSI) authoring locally and nationally published articles and conducting seminars on playground safety. 

 

• Injury statistics on playgrounds

• Safety specs, testing stds., planning & installation for playgrounds

• Fall safety playground surface types

• Outside resource document links

• News articles (article link below)

• Are Our Playgrounds (and Industry-Related Fall Safety Standards) Really Safe?, 2014 article originally published at Playground magazine's website. 

• Gif diagrams of how different safety surfaces react to provide their related impact attenuation during a fall impact.