Is Your Home’s Play Equipment Safe?
Children ought to have safe places to play. And, if they’re on playground equipment, it should be safe for them to climb and swing and slide on. A child should not be injured or killed because of unsafe playground equipment.
A four-year-old boy died on backyard play equipment three years ago when he fell from monkey bars and was strangled on a trapeze hanging below them. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, his parents have worked since his death to alert the Consumer Product Safety Commission and others about the unsafe design of the equipment, and new standards were approved last month. Unfortunately, the CPSC has not yet issued any warnings about the design flaw.
No one wants to keep a child in a cocoon. Children need to run and play. That’s part of the “job” of being a child. But part of the job of being adults is to design safe equipment for children to play on. The CPSC has made finding safe home play eqauipment a little easier with its Outdoor Home Playground Equipment Safety Handbook.
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