Dimensions and Design of swimming pool fences and balcony - ANEC

Table 3. Description of the barriers selected for the different age groups (cont.).
Barrier
Age
(months)
Height
(cm)
Characteristics
Drawing
(reference child 1,10m tall)
Picture
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Vertical wood panel of 100
cm + 2 cylinder rotating
rods, with a diameter of 3,5
cm, the first one backing 8,5
cm from the barrier, and the
second one backing 6,5 cm
from the first one, with a vertical
distance of 6,5 cm and
a gap of 9,19 cm.
The purpose of selecting
this type of barrier for this
age group was to see if
children would succeed in
passing above the barrier
despite of the 2 backing
rods. This barrier should be
more difficult to cross than
the previous one due to the
second rod.
3.3 Anthropometric variables
selection
The variables that were chosen to characterize
the children’s morphology (Table 4) were those
that literature underlines as having the greatest
influence upon their capacities in these kinds of
skills: 1) reaching objects put at a high level and/
or climbing barriers (maximum vertical reaching
height, upper limb length which means
acromiale-radiale length, lower limb length that
means trochanterion height and stature), 2) to
pass between two obstacles (head circumference,
biparietal breadth and anterior-posterior
chest breadth), 3) grasping objects and
moving the body over the obstacles (hand length
which means midstylion-dactylion lenght),
strength (handgrip), and body mass (weight).
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