Seminar of ASTM Standard Updates in 2025
Hybrid ︱ 2 hours ︱ $100
Course Details
Course Code：PE 020-007-2512
Date & Time：11 December 2025 (Thu)︱10:00am - 12:00nn (HKT)
Format：Hybrid mode
- In-person︱MG Tower, 133 Hoi Bun Road, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
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Virtual︱Online via ZOOM
Fee：HKD $100/ person
Target audience：
- Playground Designers & Manufacturers
- Playground Equipment Suppliers / Installers
- Professionals who develop, manage or maintain the playground facilities in park, schools, hotels, campsites or residential complexes
Medium of Language: English
Certification : e-Certification of Attendance issued by Anne Marden Playright Academy
Introduction
The ASTM F1487-25 Standard was revised in June of 2025 in which will bring impacts on children’s playground design. Mr. Kenneth S. Kutska, Chair of ASTM Subcommittee for performance requirements for public playground equipment will present all the material changes that have taken place since then in this hybrid seminar.
The content of the seminar will reinforce the requirement for designers and manufacturers of playground equipment to conduct a benefit and risk assessment of new products and designs of playgrounds and playground equipment that is not specifically defined within the current standard.
In addition, the inclusion of new requirements for Fully Enclosed Structures and Fully Enclosed Slides will also be addressed. These requirements provide the opportunity to consider the reduction of the equipment’s fall height which may also reduce the performance requirements for the critical height rating of the protective impact attenuating surfacing under and around the playground equipment required use zones and also may reduce the use zone special requirements for the protective surfacing.
Objectives
Candidates who attend this seminar will be able to:
- Get the updates of the ASTM F1487-25 revised in June 2025 for handling the new requirement and corresponding adjustment in playground design.
Content
Addresses thoroughly the updates of ASTM F1487-25, specifically:
- Benefit and risk assessment of new products and designs of playground
- New requirements for Fully Enclosed Structures and Fully Enclosed Slides
Trainer :
Mr Kenneth S. Kutska
CPSI
Executive Director, International Playground Safety Institute (IPSI), LLC.
Kenneth S. Kutska is currently the Executive Director of the International Playground Safety Institute, LLC. After 35 years in the municipal park and recreation management Ken retired from the Wheaton Park District, Illinois. His primary work experience was in the area of public park management with emphasis on park design, facility design, maintenance and operations. He has designed more than 100 parks and playgrounds; provides planning assistance to other groups and organizations for park and playground design; and has developed training programs and materials for staff responsible for playground design, construction, maintenance, repair and inspection. He is co-founder of the NRPA CPSI Program and remains consultant and trainer to the NRPA on all things related to Playground Safety. He is also an instructor of Maintaining Childs Play, Playground Maintenance Technician Course offered by the Indiana University's Eppley Institute.
Kenneth received his Bachelor’s degree from Western Illinois University. He is a Certified Park and Recreation Professional (CPRP) and a Certified Playground Safety Inspector (CPSI). Some of his professional affiliations include: President of the National Recreation and Park Association (1995); Past Chair NRPA's National Playground Safety Institute; and current Chair of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Subcommittee for performance requirements for public playground equipment (ASTM F1487). He is an advisor to Playright Hong Kong, Landscape Industry Association of Singapore, Standards Singapore Committee on Revision to SS495 and SS457, Singapore's National Parks Board and its Center for Urban Greenery and Ecology, and the Playground Safety Association of Malaysia and ex-officio member of the Canadian Standards Association's CSA Z614 Playspace Standard.
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