Playground Safety: Sure Your Kids Play Safe
Is Your Child Safe On The Playground?

Watch a child at play sometime.
Jumping, swinging, climbing and hanging, children are more interested in spending time flying through the air than standing on the ground. The problem is, sooner or later, hang time isn't enough. When it's your kid up in the air, what can you do to provide a safe surface for landing?

Jungle Gym. Swing Set. Monkey Bars. Climbing Walls. It's a sad statistic that 92% of existing playgrounds don't have adequate playground safety surfacing and 91% of residential playgrounds have no safety surface at all. Too often, parents, educators, and recreation "experts" believe that mulch, wood chips, asphalt, concrete of stones will provide enough fall protection. Yet, 79% of playground injuries are due to falls on hard surfaces. Playground safety is clearly an issue.

Unfortunately, more than 200,000 children each year discover for themselves what Sir Isaac Newton proved hundreds of years ago – what goes up must come down. Too often, "down" is on hard surfaces instead of rubber mats. The result? Minor to serious injuries.

GroundScape Technologies is concerned about playground safety. As the manufacturer of GroundScape Kids we want you to know what can be don't (done?) to protect your children by providing a surface made of clean, shredded recycled rubber that is impact-absorbent.

The simple fact is, children need more fall protection than they typically receive. Since the late 1980's, fall-related injuries have increased 5% annually and now account for 79% of all injuries on public playgrounds. Luckily, GroundScape Kids offers a clean, attractive rubber safety cushion for the home or public play environment.

GroundScape Kids' Rubber Mats Offer

• Unrivaled Fall Protection for Best Playground Safety
• Unmatched Performance
• Uncompromising Simplicity
• Unbelievable Cost Effectiveness

•Unrivaled Fall Protection for Best Playground Safety
GroundScape, made of recycled rubber, has been shown to be the safest surface on the market today, substantially outperforming other playground surfaces. In fact, at a 4" depth, GroundScape Kids is as effective as up to 12" of competing products, such as turf and other flooring mats.

•Unmatched Performance
Unlike other types of surfaces, GroundScape Kids is unaffected by the environment. The rubber will not absorb water, will not freeze in winter and will not attract animals and insects. The rubber prohibits mold and fungus growth and is specifically designed for playground safety. Annual replacement requirements are much lower than with other types of bulk surfacing material, such as turf and mulch, saving time and money.

•Uncompromising Simplicity
Besides its impressive playground safety results, GroundScape Kids is designed to handle the punishment of active children with very little maintenance. You'll only need to level the rubber surface periodically with a garden rake. Because the rubber never decomposes or deteriorates, you'll only need to replace 3-5% of the surface annually – competitive products? Often, users must replace most of their mulch, sand or gravel based products each year! Because GroundScape Kids is a loose-fill material, it's easy to install and costs much less than poured-in-place or mat rubber materials. And unlike those products, GroundScape Kids can be easily relocated and reinstalled.

•Unbelievable Cost Effectiveness
Not only is GroundScape Kids friendly to your budget, it is to the environment. Made of clean, shredded recycled rubber, GroundScape Kids meets ADA requirements for wheelchair accessibility (ASTM F1951-99). It is available in a variety of fun colors that won't rub off on shoes, hands or clothes.

All GroundScape Kids products have significantly passed ASTM F1292 Head Impact Criteria (HIC)