Making playgrounds safer with PlaySafe

from Pro Landscaper Africa May 2020

News Association news from SALI and ILASA

P L A Y S A F E L E A D I N G T H E W A Y IN PLAYGROUND SAFETY FLOORING

As the effects of the coronavirus ravages across our country, it is important to reflect on the importance of safety in society and how child safety is now of paramount importance more than ever before. When we take our children to a playground to play on the play equipment, it is our responsibility as custodians to ensure that the equipment and the safety flooring is safe for our kids to play on in case of a fall.

Playsafe, a division of Seamless Flooring Systems is the leading playground safety flooring brand in South Africa. The Playsafe brand comprises of the most comprehensive range of local and imported playground safety flooring systems.

Seamless Flooring Systems has been in existence since 2003 and is involved in product innovation, development, manufacture and distribution as well as applicator training, and is committed to ensuring that its products are correctly installed. Seamless Flooring Systems is not an installation company, but rather it trains and supplies the playground and landscaping industry and installers with its products.

The biggest seller and most popular safety rubber flooring system for playgrounds are the Playsafe Impact Protection Slabs. The Playground Impact Protection Slabs allow children to play happily without the risk of injury. The impact protection DIY slabs are a cost effective option for playground surfaces and are simple to install, and can be done at home without professional assistance. They come with integrated connector pins which secure the slabs when installed in a T-joint configuration, thus protecting against accidental movement and theft. The rubber used in the impact protection slabs is completely traceable, right down to each individual slab, by using production codes.

Their safety compliance certificate is almost immediate when the impact protection slab is paired to the correct fall height of any playground. Impact Protection Slabs are available in a variety of thickness from 25mm to 90mm. Impact Protection Slabs allow children to play happily without the risk of injury, and give parents and educators peace of mind in terms of safety compliance.

Playsafe wet pour is a flooring system that is mixed on site, combining specially developed resins with rubber. The rubber is hand-trowelled onto the surface, to a specified thickness, depending on the requirements of the project. The end result is a seamless surface that can incorporate patterns. Wet pour can be applied using either SBR or EPDM rubber or a combination of SBR for the cushion layer and EPDM for the wear layer. The system feels smooth and soft underfoot, cushioning the body joints, while also being incredibly durable. The latest innovation from Seamless Flooring Systems is the SPECTRA range of coloured SBR granules. There are only a few companies worldwide that have the technology to colour SBR rubber and SFS is the only company in Africa with this colouring technology. SpectraRubber TM and SpectraInfill TM rubber granules are produced from fully recycled SBR rubber, which is processed, classified and graded for granulated and shred rubber. Using its licenced and patented colouring technique, each granule is fully encapsulated in a UV stable and colour-fast pigmented polyurethane.

Seamless Flooring Systems distributes the Playsafe interlocking tiles, Playsafe playground accessories and games, Polyurethane primers and binders, recycled SBR rubber shred and crumb, SpectraRubber pre-coloured recycled SBR rubber shred and crumb, SpectraMulch coloured rubber mulch and EPDM coloured rubber direct to the public or to trained installers.

Seamless Flooring Systems is on a “PLAYSAFE – STAYSAFE” drive in 2020 to grow the playground installer base throughout South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa. “There is a huge market for correctly specified and correctly installed playground flooring” says Jeremy Stewart, owner of Seamless Flooring and Chairman of SASPI (South African Sports and Play Industry).

Please contact SFS directly should you wish to enrol for training at either the Cape Town or Johannesburg offices.

info@seamlessflooring.co.za www.playsafe.africa