Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
- Volume 24 Issue 3 Serial No. 35
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- Pages.414-427
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- 1991
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- 1975-8375(pISSN)
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- 2233-4521(eISSN)
Assessment of Safety of Playground Equipment in Elementary Schools in Taegu
대구시내(大邱市內) 국민학교(國民學校) 놀이터의 안전성(安全性) 조사(調査)
- Park, Jung-Han (Graduate School of Public Health, Kyungpook National University) ;
- Yun, Soon-Gil (Graduate School of Public Health, Kyungpook National University)
- Published : 1991.09.01
Abstract
To assess the safety of playground equipments in the elementary schools of Taegu, a site visit was made to 117 elementary schools out of 119 schools between 1st and 30th of April 1991. Safety criteria were developed on the bases of Massachusetts' Playground Safety Check List, standard height of Korean children of 6-12 years old, and source book for designing playground equipments. There were eleven different kinds of playground equipments installed in 117 schools but the number of equipments was about 50-60% of the minimum requirement set by the Ministry of Education except chin-up bar. Among the installed equipments, 47.3% of swings, 16.6% of parallel bars, 20.0% of monkey bars, and 16.0% of slides were broken down. None of the swings, slides, seesaws, monkey bars, and sandboxes met the safety criteria to the full but 59.0 of chin-up bars, 31.4% of Parallel bars, and 13,5% of stumps met the criteria fully. The proportions of equipments that were dangerous for children to play on were 26.4% for slides, 20.0% for monkey bars, 11.6% for seesaws, 10.4% for parallel bars, 9.8% for sandboxes, 7.4% for swings and stumps, and 3.9% for chin-up bars. The rests were either in need of repair or broken down. It was revealed by this survey that the playground equipments were too short in number to meet the minimum requirement, designs and size were not standardized, and many of the equipments were involved with the risk of child accidents. Therefore, a safety standard for the playground equipments should be developed and the existing equipments should be repaired immediately.
국민학교 놀이터 시설의 설치현황과 안전성을 조사하여 문제점을 파악하기 위하여 1991년 4윌 1일부터 4월 30일까지 대구시내 국민학교 총 119개교 중 117개교를 현장 조사하였다. 각 놀이시설의 안전성 판정기준은 Massachusetts 주의 Playground Safety Check List와 우리 나라