Help with Safety area of climbing frame ...

[Stanfield]

Hi,

I have purchased a TP Kingswood lower tower with double arm swing ... does any one else have one of these?
If so what type of safety area/material do you use underneath, do you HAVE to have any?

People with other climbing frames, are there any health and safety laws or OFSTED requirments that say you have to have safety bark etc around your climbing fame?

Thanks

[sarah707]

http://www.rospa.com/playsafety/info/22_design.pdf

http://www.rospa.com/playsafety/faqs/surfacing.htm

I had to get rid of my climbing frame because I wasn't prepared to dig 1 foot around it, to 1 foot depth and put in chippings :(

Ah well more space for the footballers! :D

[Stanfield]

Thanks for that, I have read through it all, but I also phoned my development co-ordinator who has said if the equipment is in your own home grounds you do not need anything and most minders just have them on the grass.

I am planning on having some bark chippings around it but didn't really want a vast amount of it because I HAVE to. Just want some where children may ACTUALLY fall, not where they COULD fall if they jumped off, did a somersault, then rolled three times before they landed!!!:laughing: