Your trusted source for playground safety, compliance, governance, and industry insight. At Playsafe, we help create safer, smarter, and more compliant play environments across New Zealand and internationally. As specialists in playground safety inspections, impact testing, standards training, compliance advisory, and risk management, we work alongside councils, schools, early childhood providers, landscape architects, and playground operators to support high-quality play outcomes. Expert...

A playground inspection does not “fail” your playground—it helps protect the children who use it and the organisation responsible for it. Professional inspections identify hazards, assess actual risk, prioritise maintenance, and support sensible budgeting. Not every finding requires immediate replacement, but choosing not to inspect does not remove responsibility. The greatest risk is often not knowing what hazards exist or being unable to show how foreseeable risks were being managed.

Explore playground injury statistics from New Zealand, Australia, the UK and US, including common injury causes and how inspection, maintenance and softfall testing can reduce risk.