Each year about 200,000 children under the age of 15 are sent to the emergency room due to injuries that occur on the playground (Hudson 1999). Nevertheless, playground safety is currently an issue outside Federal regulation. This project seeks to minimize and/or prevent injuries on Worcester's public playgrounds. As a major toward this goal, we designed an effective safety auditing and maintenance system for the individual playgrounds in the city of Worcester that can be updated frequently and accessed easily. From these systems, we hope to make Worcester a model city in playground safety, setting the precedent for other towns and cities within the region.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Wolfe, Devin Michael
• Whitaker, Elizabeth Anne
• Sama, David Joseph

Subject

• Well-Being
• Infrastructure
• Health
• Security

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 02C021I

Mot-clé

• Public spaces
• Public health

Advisor

• Albano, Leonard D.
• Weaver, Elise A.

Year

• 2002

Center

• Worcester Community Project Center (Massachusetts) - IQP

Date created

• 2002-01-01

Emplacement

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright