Product Design & Safety
For more than 30 years we have been the supplier of choice for schools, councils, and businesses across the UK
When it comes to product design and safety, Creative Play delivers high-quality, durable playground equipment for schools, councils, community groups, and the leisure and hospitality sectors.
Our goal is to create engaging, innovative play spaces that inspire children of all ages while maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality, and durability. Every product is carefully designed to provide exciting play opportunities and a safe environment for children to learn, explore, and develop through play.
How We Design & Develop Our Playgrounds
Our product design team continuously develops innovative playground equipment that is engaging, durable, and safe for children of all ages and abilities.
Every product follows a detailed playground design process to ensure it meets British Standards, including BS EN 1176 and BS EN 1177, which is manufactured at our facility in Chester.
Safety is embedded throughout every stage of design and manufacturing. For example, we use an anti-slip resin-impregnated surface in all footfall areas to reduce the risk of slips and falls.
Our timber uprights are square-cut and free from the heartwood to minimise splitting, while HDPE plastics and steel-core ropes provide strength, durability, and design flexibility.
All playground equipment is signed off by an RPII Operational Inspector, ensuring full compliance with BS EN standards and verifying that every product meets our strict quality and safety requirements.
Our Product Design Team
The role of a product designer is to develop a deep understanding of the needs, abilities, and play requirements of children, while creating fun, engaging, and innovative playground equipment.
Once we understand the intended users, we explore the most suitable materials and manufacturing methods to bring each design to life. This ensures every product is both creative and fit for purpose in a real-world play environment.
The process then moves into detailed technical design plans. These form the foundation for manufacturing each product in our Chester-based factory, ensuring precision, consistency, and quality throughout production.
How We Ensure Playground Equipment Safety
Our quality control system is extremely comprehensive, ensuring every product manufactured in our factory conforms to ISO9001 standards.
Our Quality Control Manager oversees rigorous testing procedures on all products before they are released. Only once a product has passed all required checks is it formally signed off as safe for use.
Following approval, equipment is carefully prepared and dispatched for installation by our specialist teams at schools, nurseries, and early years settings. This robust process ensures complete peace of mind, giving confidence that every piece of playground equipment is manufactured, tested, and delivered to meet and exceed British safety standards.
Innovation and Training in Playground Design
Innovation
Creative Play prides itself in offering a service that is centred around innovation and design.
We encourage our staff to be experimental and creative, when thinking of new ideas and prototypes for products that can be manufactured in the future.
This means that our team is constantly looking ahead at what can be created next, to further improve upon the services we offer and our ever growing portfolio of playground equipment.
From time to time, one of these experimental ideas does actually become a new product that goes into production!
Training
All of our product designers have the technical ability and skills to create new ideas, offer design solutions, make design decisions, identify pain points and offer project solutions to each industrial design and final product.
In addition to this, our staff have been through a thorough training process. The training process ensures that our staff has knowledge and understanding of the requirements within the specialised industry we serve.
The staff we train on product design and development, manufacturing and installation of equipment, all have the knowledge to not only create new ideas, but implement them, too.
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