Playground Safety Flooring Square Tiles
Statistic of Injuries
Every year, over 200,000 children submit to the emergency room due to playground-related injuries. Out of those injuries, 15 children suffer fatal injuries from playground equipment. Almost 80% of injuries involve falls, those falls injuries are also accountable for 90% of severe playground injuries.
Broken Bones
More than 50% of hospitalized injuries are fractures and abrasions, this happens a lot due to having softer bones compared to adults. Fractured bones for a child can be painful and take weeks or months to heal and possibly may interfere with a child’s proper physical development. Children’s bodies are so fragile even minor incidents could lead to injury and broken bones. This incident happens quite a lot on a playground due to falls and sports incidents. Soft and safe ground materials could cushion a child’s fall and prevent the most serious injuries.
Head And Brain Injuries
This is the same with common fall incidents, except the body part hitting the ground is the head. The number of emergency room visits for playground brain injuries has increased in the last decade. Head and brain injuries somehow are very serious considering the brain is the most important organ and some injuries lead to lifetime effects. A child could fall and strike their head on playground equipment or the ground surface and inflict head injury. Bad timing and improper landing posture cause head fall first, and then head injuries will happen. Children tend to act recklessly and poor supervision from an adult would make them do what they should not do or climb in a place where they should not, which would only make it easier for any incident to happen.
Soft-Tissue Injury
These kinds of injuries are considered minor as it happens quite a lot and heals faster. Torn muscle, sprain and dislocation could happen due to certain conditions. Most of the time proper warm-up exercise is enough to prevent soft-tissue injury. But sometimes it causes by old or poorly maintained equipment that leads to soft-tissue injuries. Slippery or dangerous surfaces could also cause slip and fall accidents with accompanying soft-tissue damage.
How Safety Rubber Flooring Could Reduce Injuries
Cushioning And Shock Absorption
When safety rubber flooring is installed on uneven playground surfaces, this will make it even safer for children to walk and play. When children play around with swings or monkey bars, safety rubber flooring could absorb the fall impact and hence minimize potential injuries. This kind of playground flooring surface has an elasticity that offers cushioning which is why it has good shock absorption. Compared to hard flooring, any falls would be so fatal as it could instantly put damage to their body and the result could be broken bones and etc.
As the name suggests, “safety rubber flooring” is made to secure safety for people on it, especially in a place with a high volume of people as playgrounds.
Anti-Slip And Waterproof
This safety rubber flooring is the safest flooring you could get on the market today. The rubber is resilient and could prevent slips, falls and flooding. One of the features that let safety rubber flooring to be slip-resistant is because it has a very high coefficient of friction within the soles and rubber surface. Children on playgrounds would experience an improved level of grip and traction that would prevent them from slipping and falling afterwards. They could run around without worrying about something that could hinder their activities, it is safe and no slipping.
Although rubber flooring is soft like a sponge, it does not have the ability to absorb water as the rubber does not have space inside and water could not enter. With moisture conditions, any normal surface would cause mold and mildew on the floor, which can impact the health of people around. However, rubber is naturally water resistant so there is no problem as it could perform well even during rain and wet conditions.
This would enhance the overall level of non-slip safety because it would keep the top surface of the rubber flooring surface clear of liquids and safe to walk on.