Soccer Goal Safety And Keeper Goals
Keeper Goals Takes Soccer Goal Safety Seriously
Keeper Goals has been actively involved in drawing awareness to the issue of soccer goal safety since the early 1990's. In 1995 Keeper Goals helped draft the Consumer Products and Safety Commissions Guidelines for movable soccer goals. Keeper Goals continues to play an active role in soccer goal safety educating consumers, researching, testing and designing safer goals and anchoring options.
We encourage you to visit our website's soccer goals safety section and contact us at 800-594-5126 M-F 9am - 5pm CST or email us with questions about goal safety.
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The Issue of Soccer Goal Safety:
According to the U.S. Consumer and Product Safety Commission, "There are approximately 225,000 to 500,000 soccer goals in the United States. Many of these soccer goals are unsafe because they are unstable and are either unanchored or not properly anchored or counter-balanced. These movable soccer goals pose an unnecessary risk of tipover to children who climb on goals (or nets) or hang from the crossbar."*
Misuse of soccer goals has resulted in serious injury and death. Most injuries occur when there is no adult supervision. Wind, sloped surfaces and people hanging from the goal can all tip a soccer goal. Any freestanding goal that is not cemented into the ground can be tipped over if enough people hang from the goal. We believe education is the key component to ensuring that the field you are playing on is safe.
What Makes Soccer Goals By Keeper Goals Safer?
Keeper Goals recognized the need for safe soccer goals early on. And we take the need for soccer goal safety seriously. Soccer goal safety rules vary from area to area. All rules state that at a minimum, movable goals must be counterbalanced or anchored.
All of the soccer goals manufactured by Keeper Goals, that do qualify, meet the requirements set forth by ASTM F2056-00 safety performance specification for soccer goals and consumer products safety. (See ASTM F20-56-09 for specifics on requirements and testing.)
All movable soccer goals we manufacture in our factory in Butler, WI, have a backbar to counterbalance the weight of the goal.
(If you want to know if a specific model of Keeper Goals has a backbar either check the specific web page or ask us. We'll be happy to let you know.)
Though many soccer goals look the same they are not all created equal. At Keeper Goals, we use high-performance materials that are stronger and thicker than those used by most of our competitors – the result: our goals can sustain more abuse, without deforming like those goals made out of less expensive materials.
Keeper Goals also sells a variety of stake and anchors to suit your specific needs. (more info.)
*U.S. Consumer and Product Safety Commission Report on Soccer Goal Guidelines, Jan., 1995.