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In Taiwan, most parents think that neighborhood playgrounds are hazardous, even thought that they allow their preschoolers to use almost all the equipments available at neighborhood playgrounds. How to ensure the safety in using these equipments in playgrounds relies on several factors, such as creating complete safety checklists for equipments, constructing sufficient property government policy, and accomplishing playground security certificate.
The aims of this study were to analyze the 35 neighborhood playgrounds in Songshan District of Taipei based on investigation approach and create a practicable safety checklist, which includes 40 examining items of 7sorts. The safety checklist, then, would be employed to make complete verification for these playgrounds, the data would be analyzed, and the results would be concluded. The analysis results revealed that three sorts of equipments, composite play structure, seesaws, and jungle gyms, in the 35 playgrounds were safe for all. More than 80 percent of the slide equipments could meet the corresponding safe requirements. However, less than 50 percent of the rocking equipments were unsafe. Notable, more than 94 percent of the playgrounds lacked appropriate safety distance among slides, swings, and climbing equipments. In regard to the above issues, the relevant administration of playground equipments could not only authorize some playground safety institutions with professional certification to certify the neighborhood playgrounds but also built a supervisory policy to make out the playground safety.
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