No Fault Sport Group, LLC
       June 2013 
  
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Playground Safety Tips - Summer Safety!
  

    Safety First   

Keep your child safe this Summer with these Playground Safety tips!  
  Playground June 2013  

Each year, about 200,000 children are treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms for playground equipment-related injuries. An estimated 148,000 of these injuries involve public playground equipment and an estimated 51,000 involve home playground equipment. Most of the injuries are the result of falls.

 

Since almost 60% of all injuries are caused by falls to the ground, protective surfacing under and around all playground equipment can reduce the risk of serious head injury. No Fault Safety Surface can help prevent critical head injuries to your child.


Avoid playgrounds with non-impact absorbing surfaces, such as asphalt, concrete, grass, dirt or gravel, as they lose their ability to absorb shock through wear and environmental conditions. Always use protective surfacing on your playground! Certain loose-fill surfacing materials are acceptable, such as rubber mulch.

 

Summer brings long, hot days, which are perfect for water play, travel or a trip to the playground. It is important to remember that excessive heat can be a hazard! Heat-related illness can occur when your body can't properly cool itself. To avoid wilting in the heat, go to the playground before 10:00 a.m. or after 3:00 p.m., rest often in shady spots, wear UVA/UVB sunscreen and most importantly stay hydrated!

 

Before you visit a playground, check to make sure that play areas are designed to allow an adult to see children clearly while they're playing on all the equipment. Adult supervision can help prevent injuries by making sure kids properly use playground equipment and don't engage in unsafe behavior around it. Always supervise, and teach your child safe play!

For more information regarding playground safety and injury prevention, you can visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission website at www.cpsc.gov.

CSURE Children's Park
CSURE Park June 2013
  
No Fault is excited to be a part of the beautiful CSURE Park in Ventnor, New Jersey!
The founder of CSURE (Community for the Safe Usage of Recreation Environments), Marsha Galespie, turned her dream into a massive volunteer effort to build the fully accessible playground in 2007. It was planned as a playground that would be accessible to kids with wheelchairs or crutches and those with other physical or mental disabilities. They originally installed rubber tiles which over time deteriorated and became rough and uneven. Repeated storms caused the tiles to lift, and flooding after one storm actually had the tiles floating on the beach side of the playground. Ms. Galespie chose No Fault Safety Surface poured surface for a smoother and safer surface. No Fault removed the existing tiles and installed 8,700 square feet of safety surface in 50% Tan/50% Black field color with "river" and "splash" patterns in Teal and Terra Cotta Red.
Employee Highlight:  Katie Finch
 

Katie June 2013 No Fault Sport Group is proud to employ so many talented, hard-working individuals. One such talented and hard-working individual is Katie Finch, a student worker and daughter of No Fault's accountant, Vicky Finch. Last week, Katie graduated from McKinley High School here in Baton Rouge and was honored as the school's salutatorian, with an impressive overall GPA of 4.64. 

 

At No Fault, Katie serves as Sales Support, doing various tasks for our sales managers. Similar to her performance in the classroom, Katie's work at No Fault is always done efficiently and with great attention to detail. Katie is a great example of the type of talent and professionalism on which No Fault prides itself as a company. Though we will miss her while she is away at college, we are so excited for her and will welcome her back for Summers and holidays! Her successes thus far bodes quite well for what is to come in the future. 

   

 

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