SAFE and Fun Playgrounds: A Handbook

Play is important for cognitive, emotional, and physical development of children. Use the four components experts have identified for safety: supervision, age-appropriate design, fall-surfacing that contains approved materials, and equipment maintenance.

This handbook is what you need to maintain an existing, or to create a new, pleasing, and challenging playground that is safe, but not boring.

Heather M. Olsen, EdD, is executive director of the National Program for …