Teach safety on playground

According to the last Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents report I read about child accidents in playgrounds, 80 per cent were caused through behaviour patterns and 20 per cent through equipment defects or environmental causes. Over the past ten years local authorities have applied money and effort toward making the landing surface and appliance construction safer. Nowadays the playgrounds are generally built safer, but is the child who wants to play in them physically secure to handle the physical challenges that will arise?

When the child comes into this world she finds that she has a body, two legs (wheels) and two arms (wings), but unfortunately no instruction book on how to use them. Whose responsibility is it to ensure the child understands how to hang, locomotion forward, left, right, and backward on the flat, upwards and downwards, jumping, dismounting and rolling in those four directions, swinging, carrying, co-ordination, balancing and so on? Most of the 80 per cent of accidents result from falling from heights, so it's vital that a secure child is capable of landing and rolling before venturing on to elevated apparatus.