Background | Survey Findings | Focus: New York’s Most Potentially Hazardous Playgrounds | Survey Results
Litter in the Playgrounds | Focus: Are New York’s Playgrounds Getting Safer? | Recommendations and Conclusions
Upstate Playground Table | New York City and Long Island Playground Table

Are New York's Playgrounds Getting Safer?

In 2004, NYPIRG conducted a statewide survey of 157 playgrounds using a similar form to the survey used for this year's survey. In some categories, there is improvement in playground safety over the two year period — in the areas of toxic playground risk, unsafe equipment height and unsafe swings. In other categories, surveyors identified more potential hazards in 2006 than in 2004 — in the areas of unsafe surfacing and inadequate fall zones. In the hazard areas of head entrapment and clothing entanglement the percentages were about the same in 2004 and 2006.

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