KOTITI Testing & Research Institute provides testing and inspection services for children’s activity spaces as a designated testing agency for environmental hazards under the Environmental Health Act.

We help ensure safe environments for children by verifying compliance with environmental safety management standards.

Testing and Inspection of Children’s activity spaces

  • Children’s activity spaces, such as play facilities, daycare centers, kindergartens, and elementary schools, must be tested by a designated testing agency to verify compliance with environmental safety management standards.

Facilities Subject to Testing and Inspection

  • Children’s play facilities
  • Childcare rooms in daycare centers
  • Classrooms in kindergartens
  • Classrooms, gymnasiums, and school libraries in elementary schools
  • Classrooms in special schools
  • Kids cafés and other theme park business premises
  • Toy-providing business premises
  • Group guidance rooms in local children’s centers

Cases Subject to Testing and Inspection

  • When a children’s activity space is newly constructed, including cases where a facility is newly authorized
  • When the gross floor area of a children’s activity space is expanded by 33 m² or more
  • When 70 m² or more of a children’s activity space is repaired
    ※ Applicable only when paints, finishing materials, or synthetic rubber flooring materials are used for the repair

Test Items by Category

Test Items by Category
Category Test Items
  • Basic Inspection
  • Indoor children’s activity space (10 classrooms or area of 75m²)
  • Outdoor children’s activity space (one playground)
  • Paint or Finishing Materials
  • Lead
  • Cadmium
  • Mercury
  • Hexavalent chromium
  • Surface of Synthetic
    Resin Flooring Materials
  • Phthalates (7 substances)
  • Wood Materials
  • Creosote oil wood preservatives
  • Chromated copper arsenate wood preservatives
  • Soil
  • Lead
  • Cadmium
  • Mercury
  • Hexavalent chromium
  • Arsenic
  • Parasite (eggs)
  • Surface of Synthetic
    Rubber Flooring Materials
  • Lead
  • Cadmium
  • Mercury
  • Hexavalent chromium
  • Formaldehyde
  • Phthalates (7 substances)
  • Indoor Air Quality
  • Formaldehyde
  • Total Volatile Organic Compounds(TVOCs)

Application Procedure

  • 01

    Consultation and Application

  • 02

    Basic Inspection and Sample Collection

  • 03

    Detailed Testing

  • 04

    Issuance of Test Certificate

  • 05

    Result Report

Required Documents

  • Application Form for Confirmation Inspection of Children’s Activity Spaces
  • Design drawings indicating the facility subject to inspection
  • Business Registration Certificate