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Afamour organizes a Conference on children's play areas
12/03/2009
March 12, 2009
The Spanish Manufacturers Association of urban furniture and children parks, Afamour, organised on 25 February a Conference in Valencia on the innovations introduced in the regulation of safety of the equipment of game in the children's areasfor which he counted with the collaboration of the Association of research of the industry of the toy, related and allied, Aiju.
The main objective of the day was to start an awareness campaign directed at manufacturers of children's parks, and in general to all the agents involved in the design of these elements, from the hand of this technological centre of reference in child safety,in order to bring them the major changes of the new rules in 1176: 2008 and 1177: 2008 adopted by the European Committee for Standardisation (Cen) in April 2008. Throughout the morning, were addressed in depth specific and additional safety requirements and test methods for teams of game completely indoor and three-dimensional networks (parts 10 and 11 of the standard). Study also took regulatory changes introduced in swings, slides, zip, carousels, seesaws and dampers coverings.
In the words of the President of Afamour, Javier Yoller: "Is essential and priority to ensure the quality and safety of the equipment installed in the areas of children's play, chasing as ultimate goal the protection of the child before the damage that is not capable of discriminating".
