ASTM F1148-03

Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Home Playground Equipment

SCOPE
1.1 This consumer safety specification provides safety requirements for various types of home playground equipment intended for use by children aged from over eighteen months through 10 years. It further provides such requirements for swings intended specifically for toddlers. Different age limits for various requirements are found in this specification. These limits reflect the nature of the hazards and the expected mental or physical ability, or both, of the child to cope with the hazards.
1.2 Home playground equipment is defined as any product in which the support structure remains stationary while the activity is taking place and is intended for a child to perform any of the following activities: climbing, swinging, sliding, rocking, spinning, crawling, or creeping, or combination thereof. Fitness equipment is specifically excluded unless attached to the play equipment. This specification is not intended to apply to juvenile care products such as, but not limited to, infant swings, playpens/enclosures, beds, or furniture (including outdoor furniture, such as picnic tables, cradle rockers, activity centers being used as walker substitutes, bouncers, jumpers, infant carriers, and products specifically designed for therapeutic use). This specification is not intended to apply to equipment to be used in places of public assembly such as schools, nurseries, day-care centers, and parks. Equipment intended to be in child-care centers in private homes is not exempt from the requirements of this specification. Such centers are defined as situations in which the child-care provider does not care for more than six children under the age of ten that are not residing in the household of the caregiver, and the total number of children under the age of ten does not exceed ten, including the caregiver's own children.
1.3 Methods of identifying products that comply with this consumer safety specification are given. The illustrations of home playground equipment shown in Figs. A1.1-A1.4 are for informational purposes only and are not intended to limit or endorse certain types of playground equipment or equipment features. These illustrations are not intended to limit the variety or various combinations of equipment that are covered by this consumer safety specification.
1.4 The purpose of this specification is to reduce the likelihood of life-threatening or debilitating injuries.
1.5 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as the standard. The values given in parentheses are for information only.
1.6 If toy accessories or toy chests are attached to home playground equipment, they are applicable to this consumer safety specification and to any other applicable safety standards.
Note 1—See for figures referenced throughout this consumer safety performance specification.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 31-Oct-2003
• ICS: 97.200.40 - Playgrounds
• Technical Committee: F15 - Consumer Products
• Drafting Committee: F15.09 - Home Playground Equipment

Relations

• Replaces: ASTM F1148-00 - Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Home Playground Equipment
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2003
• Replaced By: ASTM F1148-05 - Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Home Playground Equipment
• Effective Date: 01-Oct-2005
• Referred By: ASTM F3313-20 - Standard Test Method for Determining Impact Attenuation of Playground Surfaces Within the Use Zone of Playground Equipment as Tested in the Field
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2003
• Referred By: ASTM F3351-19e1 - Standard Test Method for Playground Surface Impact Testing in Laboratory at Specified Test Height
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2003
• Referred By: ASTM F1487-21 - Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Playground Equipment for Public Use
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2003
• Referred By: ASTM F2461-23 - Standard Practice for Manufacture, Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of Aquatic Play Equipment
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2003
• Referred By: ASTM F1292-22 - Standard Specification for Impact Attenuation of Surfacing Materials Within the Use Zone of Playground Equipment
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2003
• Referred By: ASTM F963-17 - Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Safety
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2003
• Referred By: ASTM F1882-15 - Standard Specification for Residential Basketball Systems
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2003
• Referred By: ASTM F2373-11(2017) - Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Public Use Play Equipment for Children 6 Months through 23 Months
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2003
• Referred By: ASTM F2710-19 - Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Commercial Cribs
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2003

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation: F 1148 – 03
Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for
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Home Playground Equipment
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F 1148; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Scope features.Theseillustrationsarenotintendedtolimitthevariety
or various combinations of equipment that are covered by this
1.1 This consumer safety specification provides safety re-
consumer safety specification.
quirements for various types of home playground equipment
1.4 The purpose of this specification is to reduce the
intended for use by children aged from over eighteen months
likelihood of life-threatening or debilitating injuries.
through 10 years. It further provides such requirements for
1.5 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded
swings intended specifically for toddlers. Different age limits
as the standard. The values given in parentheses are for
for various requirements are found in this specification. These
information only.
limits reflect the nature of the hazards and the expected mental
1.6 If toy accessories or toy chests are attached to home
or physical ability, or both, of the child to cope with the
playground equipment, they are applicable to this consumer
hazards.
safety specification and to any other applicable safety stan-
1.2 Home playground equipment is defined as any product
dards.
in which the support structure remains stationary while the
activity is taking place and is intended for a child to perform
NOTE 1—See Annex A1 for figures referenced throughout this con-
any of the following activities: climbing, swinging, sliding,
sumer safety performance specification.
rocking, spinning, crawling, or creeping, or combination
2. Referenced Documents
thereof. Fitness equipment is specifically excluded unless
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2.1 ASTM Standards:
attached to the play equipment. This specification is not
intended to apply to juvenile care products such as, but not D 2240 Test Method for Rubber Property—Durometer
Hardness
limited to, infant swings, playpens/enclosures, beds, or furni-
ture (including outdoor furniture, such as picnic tables, cradle 2.2 Federal Standards:
16 CFR 1303 Ban of Lead-Containing Paint and Certain
rockers, activity centers being used as walker substitutes,
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Consumer Products Bearing Lead-Containing Paint
bouncers, jumpers, infant carriers, and products specifically
designed for therapeutic use).This specification is not intended 16 CFR 1500 Hazardous Substances Act Regulations, in-
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cluding sections:
to apply to equipment to be used in places of public assembly
such as schools, nurseries, day-care centers, and parks. Equip- 1500.48 Technical Requirements for Determining a Sharp
Point in Toys and Other Articles Intended for Use by
ment intended to be in child-care centers in private homes is
not exempt from the requirements of this specification. Such Children Under 8 Years of Age
1500.49 Technical Requirements for Determining a Sharp
centers are defined as situations in which the child-care
provider does not care for more than six children under the age Metal or Glass Edge in Toys and Other Articles Intended
for Use by Children Under 8 Years of Age
of ten that are not residing in the household of the caregiver,
and the total number of children under the age of ten does not 1500.52 and .53 Test Methods for Simulating Use and
Abuse of Toys and Other Articles Intended for Use by
exceed ten, including the caregiver’s own children.
1.3 Methods of identifying products that comply with this Children
16 CFR 1501 Method for Identifying Toys and Other
consumer safety specification are given. The illustrations of
home playground equipment shown in Figs.A1.1–A1.4 are for Articles Intended for Use by Children Under 3 Years of
Age Which Present Choking, Aspiration, or Ingestion
informational purposes only and are not intended to limit or
endorse certain types of playground equipment or equipment
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For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, or
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F15 on contact ASTM Customer Service at [e-mail]. For Annual Book of ASTM
Consumer Products and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee F15.09 on Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
Home Playground Equipment. the ASTM website.
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Current edition approved Nov. 1, 2003. Published January 2004. Originally Available from Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC
approved in 1988. Last previous edition approved in 2000 as F 1148 – 00. 20207.
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