Keep Your Kids Safe on Trampolines

In today's hyper media state, where every day we see kids kidnapped and worse, parents would, perhaps understandably, would rather keep their kids in their back garden when they are outside.
This is partly the reason why trampolines are becoming a large feature, both figuratively and literally, in our back gardens.
Although it is occasionally an eyesore if picked poorly, they do provide parents with an opportunity to keep a closer eye on their children when they are out playing. Trampolines however are quite dangerous in their own right and there are 100s of hospital admissions every year from kids injuring themselves on trampolines.
The very nature of the devices, kids bouncing unnaturally high in the air within close proximity to each other makes accidents almost a dead certainty.
There is however things we can do to not only reduce the accidents, but also when they do happen, make them result in fewer injuries. We want to make them safe, at the same time as still allowing them to be as fun as they are. The first and most obvious 2 are padding and a net.

The padding round the side of the trampoline mat make a slightly safer place for a kid to land, rather than bare springs and a metal frame.

You need to ensure they are good quality pads, to ensure they are capable of protecting your kids. The nets not only may catch your children if they accidentally bounce too far, at a very basic level, they also give your children a sense of distance to the edge of the trampoline, which may be less apparent when you are bouncing around.
Other things you can do is ensure that your kids take jewellery, glasses and shoes off and anything else hard that my cause injury in a collision with another kid. It is also a good idea, for young kids at least, for them to be supervised by an adult at all times. Overly elaborate jumping and bouncing should be kept to a minimum.

Although this is half the fun of a trampoline, it should be done in a reasonable manor to avoid injury.
Lastly, you can keep the trampoline in good working order. Keep an eye out for broken springs, bent frame work and keep the trampoline out of the weather with one of a large selection of trampoline covers.