The current standard for Outdoor Fitness Equipment is GB 19272-2011 "General Requirements for the Safety of Outdoor Fitness Equipment", which replaces the old national standard GB 19272-2003, with detailed additions and revisions to the standard scope and technical requirements. The standard specifies and restricts the use of materials, shape structure of equipment, a static load of components, stability, safety warning requirements, equipment installation and site, safe service life and fatigue performance, environmental protection requirements, surface quality, electrical safety, and additional requirements for single bars and double bars, etc. Here are some answers.

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• Comparison of domestic and international standards for Outdoor Fitness Equipment.

• The current status of Outdoor Fitness Equipment standards.

Comparison of domestic and international standards for Outdoor Fitness Equipment.

Compared with foreign standards, China started earlier in the standardization of Outdoor Fitness Equipment, such as GB 19272 was released in 2003. In contrast, the British Standards Institute (BSI) issued PAS 888:2013 "Publicly accessible outdoor exercise equipment - Specification" in 2013, which was subsequently standardized in 2015 as BS EN 16630:2015 "Permanently installed outdoor fitness equipment. Permanently installed Outdoor fitness equipment for community. safety requirements and test methods". This is mainly due to policy provisions such as the National Fitness Regulations, which require local governments to provide free fitness equipment in public service areas, making the Outdoor Fitness Equipment industry well developed in China. But in foreign countries this kind of equipment is not popular, it can be said that the foreign market has just started, in comparison, foreign children's play facilities, such as slides, swings, etc., there are earlier and detailed standards, such as BSI in 1998 that issued BS EN 1176 "Playground equipment. It was later adopted by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and published as F1487 "Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Playground Equipment for Public Use".

These standards are closer to GB/T 34272-2017 "Safety Code for Small Amusement Rides", and comparing EN 16630 with GB 19272 only, it is easy to find a high degree of similarity between the two in terms of external structural requirements, with only minor differences, such as the thick end of the finger clip test bar in GB 19272 is 30mm, while EN 16630 is 25mm. In addition to structural safety, GB 19272 has more comprehensive requirements in other areas, such as burial requirements for soil, no expansion bolts, etc., and even stairs, ladders, and fences, which are rarely found in Outdoor Fitness Equipment, etc. EN 16630 also has several technical requirements better than GB 19272, such as in the collision area of the buffer layer requirements, and the requirements for the buffer, for example, the minimum thickness of the cushioning material can be evaluated by HIC measurement in EN 1177 in the cushioning layer requirement of the impact area. For example, the minimum thickness of cushioning material in the cushioning layer requirement in the crash area can be assessed by the HIC measurement of EN 1177. In the actual product supervision and sampling, it can be found that the distance between the equipment is too close, free space overlap, no buffer layer, or the buffer layer is smaller than the range of the collision area is the outstanding problem of Outdoor fitness park equipment in China. In urban areas, free space is difficult to be guaranteed. The buffer layer can be evaluated according to GB 36246-2018 "synthetic material surface sports field for primary and secondary schools" and GB/T 14833-2011 "synthetic material runway surface" in terms of impact absorption and vertical deformation of the surface layer, instead of simply specifying how thick the buffer layer of a certain material should be.

The current status of Outdoor Fitness Equipment standards.

As the main object of national fitness sports, the development of Outdoor Fitness Equipment has greatly boosted the enthusiasm of the general public for fitness. At present, the technical level of China's product standards has reached the international leading level, but the breadth and depth of the standard publicity are not enough, the risk of equipment is often due to some small enterprises not strictly by the standard organization production. In particular, the second generation of fitness equipment to further the requirements and specifications of electrical safety, product standards how to put into practice, regulate the market, to give the people a safe and comfortable fitness environment, has been the meaning and value of Outdoor Preschool educational amusement standards exist.

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