Playground Equipment
Each year in Canada, thousands of children are hurt at playgrounds playing on equipment, such as slides, monkey bars, or swings. Playground injuries include fractures, spinal injuries, and head injuries.
A number of these injuries involve a child falling from an elevated surface. Not surprisingly, the harder the surface, the more likely it is that the injury will be severe. The ground beneath the equipment should be impact-absorbing; either synthetic or loosely filled with wood fibre, sand, or pea gravel.
Some children have died when their clothing or drawstrings got caught on playground equipment or on fences. Children have also died when they became entangled in ropes or skipping ropes that had been attached to playground equipment.
Read more about playground equipment safety below:
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