The Great Outdoor Gym Company cares about the safety of everyone who uses our equipment from children to pensioners. We are in an exclusive position with our standards having pioneered them with Britain’s leading safety experts.

We have the standards you need!

Our equipment has all passed the European safety standards EN1176 and EN957 and gone through rigorous testing for your peace of mind. We have also designed our equipment to incorporate expert advice about fitness and key elements of the inclusive fitness initiative so that people of all abilities can benefit from it.

Why the EN1176 standard is so important?

Outdoor gym equipment is a new concept for much of Europe. When we started there was no precedence on which standards we should apply to the equipment. For that reason we turned to Europe’s leading safety experts for advice.

The concept of outdoor gyms is that they are free and accessible to all and don’t need to be managed similar to a playground. As anyone can access them including children we felt it was vital to have the playground standards applied to the equipment. This meant removing any crush points, head entrapments, sharp edges, toggle traps, so that land owners had peace of mind when placing our gyms outside. Some would argue that placing non compliant equipment outside a playground was sufficient. We do not agree. In our experience children are magnetised to the equipment. We welcome young people into our gyms in the knowledge that we have done our very best to eliminate any potential hazard.

Why the EN957?

The EN957 is the indoor training standard. We applied this standard to our equipment  because wanted to ensure we were following the same high standards and provided the same high quality exercise as indoor gym equipment. We wanted people to have the same experience as an indoor gym except in the great outdoors and free of charge! To pass the standard we had to design the equipment to pass rigorous load testing. This means we are confident about the durability of our equipment.

How we raise the bar with inclusivity

We are passionate about everyone being able to enjoy our equipment. Our concept breaks down major barriers to getting active such as ‘cost’ and ‘accessibility to fitness facilities’. We attained the playground standard EN1176 to include young people and we have incorporated key elements of the Inclusive Fitness Initiative into our designs to include people of all abilities.