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Use zones, surfacing and fall height, head entrapment, protrusions, crush points, guardrails, slides and swings, ADA play areas and inspections. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 67 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one big drawing and a box with the measurements you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 63 topics.
You're standing under a climber with your clipboard. The ground is packed dirt with a thin rubber mat on top, and you have to decide: is this protective surfacing or not?
The handbook answers in paragraphs. Surfacing types, exceptions and cross-references, all in running text, with nothing to picture once you're out on the site.
In this book, surfacing is one page. Concrete, asphalt, grass, dirt and untested mats are drawn side by side and marked as not protective, so you see the answer before you read it.
Use zones, head entrapment openings, protrusions, guardrails and slide exits work the same way: each one has its own page and its own drawing.
So you look at the ground, you know the answer, and you write the finding without going back to the handbook.
Use zones, surfacing, entrapment, protrusions, guardrails, equipment by equipment, accessibility and the inspection routine: 67 pages, all illustrated, to review before the site walk.
Think of it this way:
It's the annual audit at an elementary school. The swing set is new, and before you mark it pass, you need to know how far its use zone runs to the front and back.
You open the swing use zone page and there it is: the pivot point, the zone stretching twice the pivot height in front and behind, with the distances in feet.
Same with head entrapment, surfacing depth, guardrail heights, slide exits and ADA routes: each one on its own page, drawn the way you see it on site.
Playground Safety Inspector Illustrated is 9 parts and 63 topics, all drawn, and it closes with every key number on one page, the full audit step by step and an exam-day review.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
What an inspection really is, CPSC handbook vs. ASTM F1487, the three age groups, your inspector kit, hazard priority and the route you always follow.
What a use zone is, when zones can overlap, swing, tire swing and slide exit zones, merry-go-rounds, rockers, seesaws and site layout.
Why surfacing comes first, where fall height is measured, critical height, loose fill and unitary surfaces, compression and displacement.
Head and neck entrapment, the torso and head probes, partially bound and V-shaped openings, fingers, drawstrings, crush and shear points and suspended hazards.
Protrusions and the gauges, S-hooks and hardware, sharp edges, tripping hazards, hot surfaces and materials, paint and corrosion.
Guardrail or barrier by height and age, their dimensions, platform height changes, stairs, ladders, ramps, handrails and the gaps people miss on decks.
Slides, swings, tire swings, upper body equipment, climbers and sliding poles, merry-go-rounds, spring rockers, seesaws and equipment the handbook does not recommend.
ADA play area rules on one page, the accessible route and its surfacing, ground-level components, and ramps or transfer platforms for elevated ones.
How often to inspect, writing a finding that gets fixed, records and repairs, the 10-minute visual walk, the full audit, frequent mistakes, the numbers on one page and exam day.
At the end of the book: Every key number on one page, the full audit step by step and an exam-day review.
Test yourself before exam day: every answer is explained in one line and points to the page where it's drawn.
See the hazards found most often on inspections drawn side by side, wrong and fixed, so you spot them at a glance.
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Every topic of the handbook on its own page and in the order you walk a site, so what you study at night is what you check the next morning.
The numbers on one page, the frequent mistakes and a practice test with answers that point to the page where each one is drawn.
A printable reference for the clipboard: use zones, surfacing depths, entrapment ranges and guardrail heights, ready to check in the field.
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Yes. It isn't a beginner book: it puts the handbook in the order you inspect a site, with every measurement drawn, so the experience you already have gets a structure for the exam.
From the edition of the CPSC Public Playground Safety Handbook (Pub. 325) that CPSC currently publishes, ASTM F1487 and related standards (F1292, F2223, F2373, F1951) and the 2010 ADA Standards. It's written for US playgrounds, in feet and inches, and each key value names the section it comes from, so you can check it against your copy of the handbook or a new edition.
No. It's an independent study guide, not affiliated with or endorsed by NRPA, CPSC, ASTM or any certifying body.
No. It doesn't give you a certificate or count toward one: certification comes only from the official course and exam. This book helps you study and review alongside the course, the current CPSC handbook and the ASTM standards.
No. They're written for this book to help you practice, and they're not official questions from any exam.
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