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A history of playground safety developments
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the National Parks Association was the first to indicate that safety surfacing was needed under playground equipment.
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In the 1970s, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission first alerted the public to the increasing problem of injuries related to children playing on playgrounds
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Concerned consumers successfully petitioned the Consumer Product Safety Commission to recommend safety standards for playground equipment. As a result, surveys were done and confirmed that playground equipment was near the top of the list of hazardous consumer products.
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After a landmark paper by Illingworth and colleagues on the dangers of playground equipment in 1975, safety standards regarding height and surface type were soon adopted for playgrounds in Europe, Australia, and the United States
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CPSC issued its Handbook for Public Playground Safety and the entire playground equipment market made radical changes.
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The National Playground Safety Institute (NPSI) was established by NRPA to act as an information resource for public playground issues.
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The University of Northern Iowa created the National Program for Playground Safety (NPPS) under a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Injury Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta
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The city of Pittsburgh set out to upgrade every one of its playgrounds to current safety standards, after the death of a 12-year-old girl crushed by a faulty slide in a suburb several years ago
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The Ministry of Community and Social Services' new playground directive required owners of licensed child care centers to meet the new standards of Canadian Standards Association for outdoor playgrounds.
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California became the first state in the nation to institute standards for school playground safety.
