

The 16-page ‘Guide to Playground Safety Surfacing’ is
launched this month. It is aimed to help play providers, playground
designers and specifiers, especially in local government, make the
right choices from all the available options.
It reviews every type of children’s playground safety
surfacing. These include bark chip, wet pour, sand, grass, and
interlocking rubber mats either for grass to grow through or to go
on solid surfaces.
Speaking at the launch of this new playground safety-surfacing
booklet, Matta Products’ managing director, Lynne Vanes,
said
“We specialise in supplying and installing Matta
Product’s unique all-weather safety surfacing for
children’s play. In addition to surfacing new play areas, we
are often called in to replace other types of safety surfacing that
is damaged, has deteriorated or is inappropriate. That is extra
cost councils could avoid if they had selected the most suitable
surface to start with. We hope this booklet helps them with that,
especially to select the long-life, low maintenance safety
surfacing which best suits them.”
Lynne Vanes added "in a new play area the ground works and safety surfacing are significant and unavoidable costs for councils, which confirms the importance of good initial specifications so they do not pay twice".
This free booklet is available in print from Matta Products new
website at:
www.matta-products.com
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