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The International Playground Equipment Manufacturers Association (IPEMA) is a non-profit membership association of playground equipment and surfacing companies. IPEMA's primary mission is to provide playground equipment and surfacing with independently tested safety certification to meet American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards…
Descriptors: Play, Safety, Testing, Playgrounds
PDF pending restorationGross, Rosalind L.; White, Harry E. – 1978
This publication describes a selected group of child-resistant closures used in packaging five categories of medicine and household products. The material in the document was collected to train survey personnel to identify closures for a planned household study of the effectiveness of child-resistant packaging. The 39 closures described are of…
Descriptors: Children, Consumer Science, Merchandise Information, Safety
Download full textACCESS ERIC, Rockville, MD. – 1996
Outdoor playgrounds can be exciting places where children explore their environment and develop motor and social skills; however, they can also pose serious safety hazards. With the exception of California, no mandatory state or federal standards currently exist regarding manufacture or installation of playground equipment or surfaces. The…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Check Lists, Child Safety, Facility Guidelines
Frost, Joe L.; Sweeney, Theodora B. – 1995
This study examined 187 playground injuries and 13 fatalities that resulted in lawsuits between 1981 and 1995, taken from the files of two expert witnesses on playground safety who testified in the cases. The data are presented by geographic location, nature of injuries, cause of injuries/fatalities, playground equipment implicated, location of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Case Studies, Children, Court Litigation
