Requirements for PlayGround!

Requirements. for our play-ground

Playgrounds provide kids with fun and exercise, but they can also pose some safety hazards.
We can make the playground both fun and safe by following a few of this guidelines. Oh yea, and since we're making a playground for children with downs syndrome, There are also additional safety features.

Safety Guidelines

1)Surface

A proper playground surface is one of the most important factors in reducing injuries - and the severity of injuries - that occur when kids fall from equipment.
In other words if we put kids in a playground like a padded cell, they don't ever get hurt. I think.

Here are some things to consider:

• Concrete, asphalt, and blacktop is bad cause its like, HARD.
  
• Playground surface should be clear of any thing that err, sticks out cause it makes children fall, lol.
• NO SHARP/POINTY OBJECTS!
  
• Playground surfaces like those rubber porous stuff are safe, but I fell off the monkey bars (lol i climed onto it) once and rubbed the skin off my nose (which hurt like hell), so, WE SHOULD USE THE SPONGEY MATS( 30x BIGGER!, THE MATS WHERE WE DO SITUPS ON?) FOR FLOOR SURFACING!
  
  Oh yea, and I read something and it says SURFACING DON'T PREVENT ALL INJURIES, and it also depends on how high the kid falls.
  

2)Design

Playgrounds are designed for different age groups. Play areas for smaller kiddies are usually separated from them older kids.
Stuff to make sure that playground of yours is safe

• Handrails/ Protective rails for elevated areas/ ramps/ stairs
  
• Swings, seesaws, and other equipment with moving parts should be located in an area separate from the rest of the playground.
• NO MORE THAN 1 person on a swing at a time.
• Toddlers shuld have their own little play area. AWAY FROM THE BIG KIDZ.
  
• NO Little SPACES WHERE CHILDREN LIMBS/HEADS OR BODYPARTS CAN TO GET STUCK TO~
  
• No areas where kids put their hands/fingers in to get crushed. Like at the merry go round thing.
  

STUFF NOT FOR YOUR PLEYGROUND!

The following types of equipment are not safe for playgrounds:

• Those weird swings shaped like animals
  
• 2 seater swings
  
• Any rope that CAN STRANGLE YOUR KID.
  
• Thse rings-the round ones that men with six packs use for inclined pull ups.
  
• monkey bars(Kids fall off these all the time.)
  
• trampolines(Kids can fall of and hurt themselves)

Oh yea, and since we're so need sensitive... we decided to make an indoor playground (those maze things which kids can explore and stuff).
Cause playgrounds like those aren't really dangerous haha and plus their fun.