title: Simplification and transformation of ASTM F1292 measurement procedure for fall accident injury criteria.
abstract: Protecting children from injuries caused by fall accidents from playground equipment is important. Therefore, measures toward minimizing the risk of fall accident injuries are required. The risk of injury can be evaluated using ASTM F1292. In this test, G-max and the HIC are used to estimate the risk of injury. However, the measurement procedure is too complicated for application to a large number of installed equipment. F1292 requires simplified by reducing the number of phases, even with a small risk of loss in accuracy. With this in mind, this study proposes a shortened measurement procedure and a transformation equation to estimate the risk as same as F1292. As the result of experiments, it was revealed that G-max and the HIC values for both procedures linearly increase with drop height. The differences in outcomes between the regression equations of the standardized procedure and those of the shortened procedure can be used as a correction value. They can be added to the value measured by the shortened procedure. This suggests that the combination of the shortened procedure and transformation equation would be equivalent to F1292, with the advantage of being more easily and efficiently applied to the evaluation of installed playground equipment.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan.
authors.forename: Maki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Yoshie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shimodaira
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iida
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002648:Child; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D006801:Humans; D010988:Play and Playthings; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors
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