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AS 3533.4.2-2013

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Amusement rides and devices, Part 4.2: Specific requirements - Contained play facilities

Specifies minimum safety requirements for the design, development, installation, inspection, maintenance, supervision levels and operation of contained play facilities. To be applied in conjunction with AS 3533, Parts 1 and 2.
Published: 19/04/2013
Pages: 86
Table of contents
Cited references
Content history
Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
Foreword
1 Scope and general
1.1 Scope
1.2 Objective
1.3 Application
1.4 Referenced documents
1.5 Definitions
2 Planning and development
2.1 Facility profile
2.2 Regulations
3 Design
3.1 General
3.2 Safety requirements
3.2.1 General
3.2.2 Assessment for fire egress
3.2.3 Facility entry and exit
3.2.4 Structural integrity
3.2.4.1 Assessment
3.2.4.2 Calculations
3.2.4.3 Testing
3.2.5 Free height of fall
3.2.6 Free space
3.2.7 Fall zones
3.2.7.1 Dimensions
3.2.7.2 Objects and surfacing in fall zone
3.2.7.2.1 General
3.2.7.2.2 Free height of fall less than or equal to 600 mm
3.2.7.2.3 Free height of fall greater than 600 mm
3.2.8 Protection against entrapment
3.2.8.1 General
3.2.8.2 Entrapment of the head and neck
3.2.8.3 Entrapment of clothing
3.2.8.4 Entrapment of the whole body
3.2.8.5 Entrapment of the foot or leg
3.2.8.6 Entrapment of fingers
3.2.9 Materials
3.2.9.1 Flammability
3.2.9.2 Barriers, netting and mesh
3.2.10 Finish of equipment
3.2.10.1 General
3.2.10.2 Hard surfaces
3.2.10.3 Protrusions and sharp edges
3.2.10.4 Rough surfaces
3.2.10.5 Upholstery
3.3 Layout and installation
3.3.1 General
3.3.2 Kitchen, café service and café seating
3.3.3 Toilets
3.4 Information to be provided by the manufacturer and supplier
3.4.1 General product information
3.4.2 Pre-information
3.4.3 Installation information
3.4.4 Inspection and maintenance information
3.5 Information to be provided by the manufacturer or supplier of impact attenuating surfacing
3.5.1 General
3.5.2 Pre-information
3.5.3 Installation
3.5.4 Inspection and maintenance
3.6 Marking
4 Specific play equipment requirements
4.1 General
4.2 Inflatable devices
4.2.1 General
4.2.2 Containment
4.2.3 Inflatable slides
4.2.4 Anchorage
4.2.5 Blowers
4.2.6 Supervision
4.3 Ball-pools
4.3.1 Design
4.3.2 Ball-pools used as landing areas after forced movement
4.4 Contained play structure
4.4.1 General
4.4.2 Play components
4.4.2.1 General
4.4.2.2 Fixed and rotating obstacles
4.4.2.3 Suspended obstacles
4.4.2.4 Spider’s webs
4.4.2.5 Burmeeze bridge and balance beams
4.4.2.6 Climbing ramps
4.5 Other play areas
4.5.1 General
4.5.2 Patron propelled vehicles
4.6 Toddler area
4.7 Forced movement devices
4.7.1 General
4.7.2 Slides
4.7.2.1 General
4.7.2.2 Starting section
4.7.2.3 Sliding section
4.7.2.3.1 General
4.7.2.3.2 Angle of the sliding section
4.7.2.3.3 Transitions between sliding surfaces
4.7.2.3.4 Width of sliding section
4.7.2.3.5 Sides and profile of the slide
4.7.2.4 Run-out section
4.7.2.5 Surface of the slide
4.7.2.6 Free space
4.7.3 Tunnel and mixed tunnel slides
4.7.4 Free-fall slides
4.7.4.1 General
4.7.4.2 Access
4.7.4.3 Width of the sliding section
4.7.5 Swings
4.7.6 Track rides
4.7.7 Spider mountains
4.7.8 Trampolines
4.7.9 Fireman’s poles
4.7.10 Rotating seats and poles
4.8 Mechanical rides
4.9 Air play devices
4.10 Climbing walls
5 Operation
5.1 General
5.2 Staffing and monitoring
5.2.1 Supervision
5.2.2 Supervision levels
5.2.3 Unsafe or inappropriate behaviour
5.3 Staff and management training
5.3.1 General
5.3.2 Training checklist
5.4 Facility operation
5.4.1 General
5.4.2 Signage
5.5 Emergency provisions and procedures
5.5.1 Emergency provisions
5.5.2 Evacuation plan
5.5.3 First aid kit
5.5.4 Rescue provisions
6 Inspection, maintenance and cleaning
6.1 General
6.2 Inspection and maintenance
6.2.1 Variability
6.2.2 Frequency
6.2.3 Maintenance information/instructions
6.3 Safety management system
6.3.1 General
6.3.2 Assessment of safety measures
6.3.3 Competence
6.3.4 General safety measures
6.3.5 Procedures relating to equipment safety
6.3.5.1 General
6.3.5.2 Equipment register
6.3.5.3 Inspection procedures
6.3.5.4 Corrective action procedures
6.3.5.5 Maintenance procedures
6.3.5.6 Incident procedures
6.3.6 Records
6.3.7 Equipment alterations
6.3.8 Equipment not meeting current standards
6.3.9 Equipment removal
6.4 Inspection
6.5 Maintenance
6.6 Cleaning procedures
Appendix A
A1 Scope
A2 Permanent loads
A2.1 General
A2.2 Mass
A2.3 Pre-stressing loads
A2.4 Mass of water
A3 Variable loads
A3.1 General
A3.2 User loads
A3.3 Specific loads
A3.3.1 Swing seats
A3.3.2 Merry-go-rounds
A3.3.3 Flying foxes
A3.3.4 Access ladders and stairs
A3.3.5 Barriers and guard rails
A3.3.6 Seats
A4 Numbers of users on the equipment
A4.1 General
A4.2 Number of users on a point
A4.3 Number of users on line type elements
A4.4 Number of users on an area
A4.5 Number of users in a volume
Appendix B
B1 Scope
B2 Requirements
B3 Limit state
B3.1 General
B3.1.1 Equation
B3.1.2 Uncertainties
B3.1.3 Combined loads
B3.2 Ultimate limit states
B3.3 Serviceability
B4 Load combination for static analysis
B5 Example calculation of user loads
B5.1 General
B5.2 Platform
B5.3 Barrier
B5.4 Ladder
B5.5 Complete structure
Appendix C
C1 Scope
C2 Test load for equipment
C2.1 Load combinations for testing
C2.2 Independent variable loads
C2.3 Permanent loads
C2.4 Safety factor for test on identical series
C2.5 Safety factor for test on a unique product
C3 Load application
C3.1 Point loads
C3.2 Line loads
C3.3 Area loads
C4 Test report
Appendix D
D1 Scope
D2 Principle
D3 Apparatus
D3.1 Fall test headform
D3.2 Accelerometer
D3.3 Impact measurement equipment
D4 Test conditions
D5 Test procedure
D5.1 Selecting test positions
D5.1.1 Representative samples
D5.1.2 In situ tests
D5.2 Specific test procedure
D6 Calculations
D6.1 Calculation of Gmax
D6.2 Calculation of HIC
D6.3 Calculation of HIC duration
D6.4 Calculation of jmax
D7 Test report
Appendix E
E1 Scope
E2 Application
E3 Tolerances
E4 Head and neck entrapment
E4.1 Completely bound openings
E4.1.1 Apparatus
E4.1.2 Procedure
E4.2 Partially bound and V-shaped openings
E4.2.1 Apparatus
E4.2.2 Procedure
E4.3 Test report
E5 Entrapment of clothing
E5.1 Apparatus
E5.2 Procedure
E5.2.1 Slides
E5.2.2 Fireman’s poles
E5.2.3 Roofs
E5.3 Test report
E6 Finger entrapment
E6.1 Apparatus
E6.2 Procedure
E6.3 Test report
Appendix F
F1 Scope
F2 Post-installation
F3 Daily routine inspection
F4 Monthly operational inspection
F5 Annual comprehensive inspection
Appendix G
G1 Scope
G2 Example daily check list
G3 Example weekly check list
Appendix H
H1 Scope
H2 Apparatus
H2.1 Test template
H2.2 Means of applying force
H3 Procedure
H4 Test report
Appendix I
I1 Scope
I2 Procedures
Appendix J
J1 Scope
J2 Pass/fail criteria
J3 Apparatus
J4 Procedure
J5 Test report
Cited references in this standard
Content history
DR AS 3533.4.2