How Safe Are Your Kids on the Playground Turf?
It's still alarming that in today's society more than 200,000 children are injured on playground equipment and playground turf each year. More than 78% of these injuries are fall-related with a majority of these accidents occurring at home, where playground turf is often non-existent. Unfortunately most of these accidents could have been prevented. Is your school or community doing enough to protect your children by providing safe equipment and safe surfaces and flooring? Are you doing enough to protect your children?

It's a fact that children falling from playground equipment are less likely to be injured when they fall on GroundScape Kids rubber playground turf. Your best protection from fall related injuries are to install proper safety playground turf. GroundScape Kids rubber playground turf, a loose-fill rubber safety surface is the best performing product available as determined by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Available in many fun and appealing colors, GSK rubber playground turf provides unparalled fall protection year-round non-dependent of weather conditions. Provide your children the protection they need, and the peace of mind that you are doing your part to protect the most important people in your lives.

Contact your local playset equipment dealer by calling our toll free number or by utilizing our website dealer locator, and ask for GroundScape Kids rubber playground turf.

GroundScape Kids rubber playground turf offers the best fall protection available in a convenient, attractive, environmentally friendly product. It is cost effective, easy to install, and requires very little maintenance.

But how can you help your (and other) children? At school, contact your principal, school board administration and especially your local parent/teacher organization president and ask about the playground surfaces and equipment they use. Seek out the director of your day care center. Ask them how committed they are to the safety of kids.

Look in the local telephone book under "Parks and Recreation" and ask your local park or playground director what type of surfacing material is used and how many injuries took place last year at your local playground. Accidents related to improper surfaces and unsafe equipment are on the rise.

Did you know that:

• 92% of existing playgrounds have inadequate safety surfacing?
• 79% of playground injuries are due to falls to hard surfaces like wood chips, mulch, asphalt, concrete, or stones?
• 86% of reported injuries take place at public parks, school settings or commercial day care centers. How safe are the surfaces and equipment at your children's school?

• What are your annual maintenance costs?
GroundScape Kids rubber playground turf offers a better surface for less. Competitive products may need to replace from a third to all of their existing surfacing material each year, which means unnecessary time and labor expense. GroundScape Kids rubber playground turf typically requires little to no maintenance annually.

• What about the "critter" factor?
Studies show that spiders, insects and other potentially harmful creatures like to make their homes in wood mulch and other materials commonly used as playground surfaces. Do you have Brown Recluse or Black Widow spiders in your area? Mice or snakes like to burrow under the play surface. Bees and wasps may build nests in the stuff. What measures are taken to prevent bites or stings?

• Air and Skin Health
These days, kids seem to be more susceptible than ever to the effects of their environment. Most playground surfacing materials decay, promoting the growth of irritating and potentially dangerous mold and fungus. GroundScape Kids rubber playground turf actually prohibits their growth and has no splinters or sharp edges.

• All-Weather Usability
Let's face it. Kids need to play outdoors no matter what the season. Unlike engineered wood fiber, wood mulch, sand or gravel, GroundScape Kids rubber playground turf will not absorb water or freeze in winter. Properly installed, GroundScape Kids rubber playground turf provides a safe, clean, fun play surface, at any time of year, in any climate.

At GroundScape Technologies, we're committed to the safety of children. Contact us and we'll answer any questions you may have about our product or how to contact your local play area administrators.

Do it for your kids' sake.