Why can’t I use just wood chips instead of Playground Safety Fiber?
“Wood chips” are the raw material that we engineer to be used for playgrounds. They are hard wood chips that can range in size from 1″x 1″ to 3″x 5″ and every variation in between. Wood chips are NOT IPEMA Certified. Playground Safety Fiber is inspected and tested every year to become IPEMA Certified. It has to pass a 3/4″ sieve test, tramp metal test, and impact attenuation test. Playground Safety Fiber when installed to 12″ will protect a child that falls from 12 feet. Although wood chips may do the same, they are not certified to do so.
