100 Surfacing Companies | Learn About Standard of Care Articles in This Issue Construction NPCAI Qualified Contractor Program For playground owners, choosing a quality playground construction company for your next playground project can be an ominous task. Whether you are a director… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Curtis Stoddard Rubber Commonalities of Kick-Out Areas and Divot Pads There is a need to shed some light on a common problem: displacement of loose-fill surfacing in high-traffic areas of a playground like under swings and… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Curtis Stoddard Safety Three Components of Successful Safety Programs Standard of Care There are three components to a successful playground safety program. The first component is the standard of care that an agency uses in… Updated Mar 2, 2026 MaryLou Iverson Inclusion A Beautiful, Boundless Play Space CVS Caremark, Boundless Playgrounds and the City of Los Angeles created a playground at the Rosecrans Recreation Center in Los Angeles that provides… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Playground Magazine Play Restoring Risky Play to Playgrounds The current trend to exclude playground play that involves risk—physical contact between players, being hit with balls, or even running on the playground—is a… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Joe Frost
Construction NPCAI Qualified Contractor Program For playground owners, choosing a quality playground construction company for your next playground project can be an ominous task. Whether you are a director… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Curtis Stoddard
Rubber Commonalities of Kick-Out Areas and Divot Pads There is a need to shed some light on a common problem: displacement of loose-fill surfacing in high-traffic areas of a playground like under swings and… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Curtis Stoddard
Safety Three Components of Successful Safety Programs Standard of Care There are three components to a successful playground safety program. The first component is the standard of care that an agency uses in… Updated Mar 2, 2026 MaryLou Iverson
Inclusion A Beautiful, Boundless Play Space CVS Caremark, Boundless Playgrounds and the City of Los Angeles created a playground at the Rosecrans Recreation Center in Los Angeles that provides… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Playground Magazine
Play Restoring Risky Play to Playgrounds The current trend to exclude playground play that involves risk—physical contact between players, being hit with balls, or even running on the playground—is a… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Joe Frost
