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David Eager |
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Injury Prevention and Risk Minimisation in Children’s Playgrounds I am a key player in an inter-disciplinary cross-institutional research team working in the broad area of injury prevention and risk minimisation within children’s play space and equipment, indoor climbing gyms, and adventure rides. My research sits comfortably within two of the Faculties key research strengths, namely: health technologies; and mechatronics and autonomous systems. I am the Institution of Engineers Australia representative on the Australian Standards Committees for Children’s Playgrounds and the Adventure Rides and Devices. I am also the Australian representative on the International Standards Committees for Children’s Playgrounds and Adventure Rides. My research concentrates on injury prevention and risk minimisation related to falls and impact. I am currently conducting research into playground undersurfacing. This research includes the systematic benchmarking of playground compliance with the safety standards, development of user friendly portable test apparatus for impact measurement of playground undersurfacing, and the development of a cableless motion monitoring system which will be used to study children at play. Further
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