Standards Development

Scope

This document specifies safety requirements for the design, construction, inspection and maintenance of trampoline parks and their components.

This document also specifies minimum operational requirements to ensure an appropriate level of safety and service when used for recreational, training or educational purposes.

This document is applicable to trampoline parks and trampoline park areas within multi activity parks. This also includes landing areas such as airbags and foam pits.

This document is intended for use by trampoline park manufacturers, installers, operators, inspectors and enforcement bodies.

This document does not cover:

a) general building regulations;

b) fire regulations;

c) planning regulations;

d) water testing;

e) food and drink provision;

f) non-trampoline activities e.g. artificial climbing, parkour, obstacle courses and miscellaneous future activities;

g) chemical composition of components;

h) outdoor trampoline parks;

i) equipment and procedures covered by the referenced documents listed in Clause 2;

j) general aspects of work safety.

Purpose

The purpose of this proposal is to revise EN ISO 23659:2022 in order to improve its clarity, consistency, practical applicability and safety provisions on the basis of experience gained since publication. CEN/TC 136/WG 17 has collected and discussed comments and thematic proposals over several years. A task group subsequently consolidated approximately 195 comments. The volume and range of these comments, including repeated proposals from different sources, demonstrate the need for a revision.

The revision will address technical errors, incorrect cross-references, unclear or inconsistent provisions and requirements that require clarification or updating.

The revision is intended to provide manufacturers, operators, inspectors, enforcement bodies and other users with requirements that are clearer, technically robust and realistically applicable to different trampoline-park concepts. It should reduce divergent interpretations and support more consistent implementation and inspection.