18.10.2012 - Ausgabe: 5/2012

DIN Handbook 105 / Playground and recreational equipment

Playgrounds and recreational equipment should be designed not only to encourage users to play, engage in physical activity and learn, but they must also be safe and not present any risk of injury.

It is particularly difficult to identify and avoid hidden dangers – caused by design and construction faults, improper installation of the equipment, lack of maintenance or poor maintenance, wear and tear, environmental influences, etc.. The basis of hazard identification and minimization is the knowledge and application of relevant safety requirements; the most important ones have been compiled in this DIN Handbook.
They concern the following areas:
Playgrounds including equipment and planning
Playground inspection (maintenance)
Leisure facilities (skate facilities, ropes courses, dry toboggan runs).
This compilation of standards is an indispensable reference guide for manufacturers, dealers, planners and designers, experts, inspectors and operators of playgrounds and recreational equipment.
The handbook includes standards concerning:
Safety requirements placed on playground equipment and surfacing.
Test methods. Guidance on installation, inspection, maintenance and operation.
Impact-attenuating playground surfacing and determination of the critical fall height. Inclusiveness and accessibility. Dry toboggan runs. Ropes courses…

Publisher: DIN
Publication date: 2012-08
7th edition , 664 pages, A5 (148 × 210), paperback
ISBN 978-3-410-22854-7 | Order No. 22854
E-Book ISBN 978-3-410-22855-4 | Order No. 22855