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Prof David Eager - Natural and loose-fill impact attenuating surfaces

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OLS Playground Standards Session 04 November 2021

In this session David presented some of his 25 years of research into the testing of sand and bark suitable for use as IAS within children’s playgrounds. He gave practical tips on what to look out for when choosing suitable IAS sand and bark.

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PDF document to download
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Playground Standards issues
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Risk Management

In Britain’s Playgrounds, ‘Bringing in Risk’ to Build Resilience

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The New York Times

The Richmond Avenue Primary and Nursery School looked critically around their campus and set about,  as one of them put it, 'bringing in risk'. Out went the plastic playhouses and in came the dicey stuff: stacks of two-by-fours, crates and loose bricks. The schoolyard got a mud pit, a tire swing, log stumps and workbenches with hammers and saws.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/world/europe/britain-playgrounds-ris…

 

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Link to external website
Resource Category
Early Years
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Risk Management
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