Playground Safety is a subject we at Yippy find ourselves talking about more and more often. It wouldn't surprise you to know that there are many playgrounds at schools, creches and public parks all over South Africa.
What might shock you to know however is that Playground Safety in many of those playgrounds is lacking and every year many thousands of children are injured and disabled as a result of accidental injury in playgrounds and according to recent statistics, on average a further ten each year will die.
The safety of the children who use those playgrounds has only been covered under National Safety Standards fairly recently.
The safety of the children who use those playgrounds has only been covered under National Safety Standards fairly recently.
When you consider that Playground Safety Standards have been in use in other parts of the world since the late 1970's and in some countries, as early as 1926 South Africa then, was a little slow but the current National Standards were introduced in 2010:
