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BS EN 1176-1:2017:2019 Edition

BS EN 1176-1:2017:2019 Edition

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Playground equipment and surfacing – General safety requirements and test methods

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BSI 2019 108
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This part of EN 1176 specifies general safety requirements for permanently installed public playground equipment and surfacing. Additional safety requirements for specific pieces of playground equipment are specified in subsequent parts of this standard.

This part of EN 1176 covers playground equipment for all children. It has been prepared with full recognition of the need for supervision of young children and of less able or less competent children.

The purpose of this part of EN 1176 is to ensure a proper level of safety when playing in, on or around playground equipment, and at the same time to promote activities and features known to benefit children because they provide valuable experiences that will enable them to cope with situations outside the playground.

This part of EN 1176 is applicable to playground equipment intended for individual and collective use by children. It is also applicable to equipment and units installed as children’s playground equipment although they are not manufactured as such, but exclude those items defined as toys in EN 71 and the Toys Safety Directive.

It is not applicable to adventure playgrounds with the exception of those items which have been commercially sourced.

NOTE Adventure playgrounds are fenced, secured playgrounds, run and staffed in accordance with the widely accepted principles that encourage children’s development and often use self-built equipment.

This part of EN 1176 specifies the requirements that will protect the child from hazards that they might be unable to foresee when using the equipment as intended, or in a manner that can be reasonably anticipated.

The use of electricity in play equipment, either as a play activity or as a motive force, is outside the scope of this standard. The attention of users is drawn to European and local national standards and regulations which are to be complied with when using electricity.

equipment placed in water and where water can be seen as impact attenuating surfacing is not fully covered by this standard and additional risks are associated with wet environments.

The risk of exposure to excessive levels of UV radiation is not covered in this standard.

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PDF Pages PDF Title
2 undefined
12 1 Scope
2 Normative references
13 3 Terms and definitions
21 4 Safety requirements
4.1 Materials
4.1.1 General
4.1.2 Flammability
22 4.1.3 Timber and associated products
4.1.4 Metals
4.1.5 Synthetics
4.1.6 Dangerous substances
23 4.2 Design and manufacture
4.2.1 General
4.2.2 Structural integrity
24 4.2.3 Accessibility for adults
4.2.4 Protection against falling
4.2.4.1 General
25 4.2.4.2 Handrails
26 4.2.4.3 Guardrails
4.2.4.4 Barriers
27 4.2.4.5 Strength requirements
4.2.4.6 Grip requirements
4.2.4.7 Grasp requirements
28 4.2.5 Finish of equipment
4.2.6 Moving parts
4.2.7 Protection against entrapment
4.2.7.1 General
29 4.2.7.2 Entrapment of the head and neck
30 4.2.7.3 Entrapment of clothing/hair
31 4.2.7.4 Entrapment of the whole body
4.2.7.5 Entrapment of the foot or leg
32 4.2.7.6 Entrapment of fingers
33 4.2.8 Protection against injuries during movement and falling
4.2.8.1 Determination of free height of fall
35 4.2.8.2 Determination of spaces and areas
39 4.2.8.3 Protection against injuries in the free space for users undergoing a movement that is forced by the equipment
40 4.2.8.4 Protection against injuries in the falling space
4.2.8.5 Protection against injuries from the surface of the impact area
42 4.2.8.6 Protection against injuries due to other types of movement
4.2.9 Means of access
4.2.9.1 Ladders
43 4.2.9.2 Stairs
44 4.2.9.3 Ramps
4.2.9.4 Steep play elements
4.2.9.5 Easily accessible playground equipment
45 4.2.10 Connections
4.2.11 Consumable components
4.2.12 Ropes
4.2.12.1 Ropes fixed at one end
4.2.12.2 Ropes fixed at both ends (climbing ropes)
46 4.2.12.3 Wire ropes
4.2.12.4 Sheathed wire ropes
4.2.12.5 Fibre ropes (textile type)
47 4.2.13 Chains
4.2.14 Foundations
48 4.2.15 Heavy suspended rigid beams
49 4.2.16 Bouncing facilities
4.2.16.1 General
51 4.2.16.2 Enclosures of bouncing facilities
5 Verification of compliance and reports
5.1 General
5.2 Confirming the adequate level of impact attenuation after installation of impact attenuating surfacing
6 Information to be provided by the manufacturer/supplier
6.1 Information to be provided by the manufacturer/supplier of playground equipment
6.1.1 General product information
52 6.1.2 Pre-information
6.1.3 Installation information
53 6.1.4 Inspection and maintenance information
54 6.2 Information to be provided by the manufacturer or supplier of impact attenuating surfacing
6.2.1 Pre-information for impact attenuating surfacing
55 6.2.2 Installation information for impact attenuating surfacing
6.2.3 Inspection and maintenance information for impact attenuating surfacing
56 6.2.4 Identification of impact attenuating playground surfacing
7 Marking
7.1 Equipment identification
7.2 Basic level mark
57 Annex A (normative)Loads
A.1 Permanent loads
A.1.1 General
A.1.2 Loads created by self-weight
A.1.3 Pre-stressing loads
A.1.4 Mass of water
A.2 Variable loads
A.2.1 General
58 A.2.2 User loads
60 A.2.3 Snow loads
A.2.4 Wind loads
A.2.5 Temperature loads
A.2.6 Specific loads
A.2.6.1 Swing seats
61 A.2.6.2 Carousels
A.2.6.3 Cableways
A.2.6.4 Spatial networks
62 A.2.6.5 Access ladders and stairs
A.2.6.6 Barriers and guard rails
A.2.6.7 Seats
A.2.6.8 Lateral protection of slides
A.3 Number of users on the equipment
A.3.1 General
A.3.2 Number of users on a point
A.3.3 Number of users on line type elements
63 A.3.4 Number of users on an area
A.3.5 Number of users in a volume
64 Annex B (normative)Method of calculation of structural integrity
B.1 General principles: Limit state
B.1.1 Limit state
B.1.2 Ultimate limit state
65 B.1.3 Serviceability limit state
B.2 Load combinations for static analysis
B.3 Worked example of the calculation of user loads (without safety factors)
B.3.1 General
66 B.3.2 Platform
67 B.3.3 Barrier
B.3.4 Ladder
B.3.5 Complete structure
68 B.4 Calculation of forces acting on a swing seat
69 B.5 Worked examples for forces acting on a swing (without safety factors)
71 B.6 Calculation of forces acting on the cable of a cableway
B.6.1 General
73 B.6.2 Worked example for forces acting on a cableway (without safety factors)
76 Annex C (normative)Physical testing of structural integrity
C.1 Pass/fail criteria
C.1.1 Load carrying ability
C.1.2 Failure
C.2 Test load for equipment
C.2.1 Load combinations for testing
C.2.2 Safety factor for tests on identical series
77 C.2.3 Safety factor for tests on a unique product
C.3 Load application
C.3.1 Point loads
C.3.2 Line loads
C.3.3 Area loads
78 Annex D (normative)Test methods for entrapment
D.1 General
D.2 Head and neck entrapment
D.2.1 Completely bound openings
D.2.1.1 Apparatus
79 D.2.1.2 Procedure
80 D.2.2 Partially bound and V-shaped openings
D.2.2.1 Apparatus
D.2.2.2 Procedure
85 D.3 Entrapment of clothing (toggle test)
D.3.1 Apparatus
87 D.3.2 Procedure
D.3.2.1 Slides
D.3.2.2 Fireman’s poles
88 D.3.2.3 Roofs
D.4 Finger entrapment
D.4.1 Apparatus
89 D.4.2 Procedure
91 D.5 Chain openings
D.5.1 Apparatus
D.5.2 Procedure
D.6 Measuring rebound effect of a bouncing facility
93 Annex E (informative)Overview of possible entrapment situations
95 Annex F (informative)Illustrations of calculation of free height of fall (FHF)
101 Annex G (informative)Illustration of sieve test
103 Annex H (normative)Procedure for confirming the adequate level of impact attenuation after installation of impact attenuating surfacing
104 Annex I (informative)A–deviations
I.1 General
I.2 France
I.3 Germany
I.3.1 General
I.3.2 Impact attenuating surfacing

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