Playground Maintenance

For a playground to thrive, good maintenance is essential. In this seminar, you will learn how to maximize your school or agency’s playground maintenance efforts by properly identifying and correcting potentially hazardous conditions on the playground. This interactive session will help you define your maintenance plan as a key to protecting your investment, managing risk, improving children’s play experiences, promoting community values, and controlling expenses. Group activities allow participants to identify procedures for correcting hazardous conditions and to develop inspection protocols and procedures for a sustainable playground maintenance program.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the importance of playground maintenance as a key to maximizing playground value and managing risk

• Develop high and low frequency inspection protocols and procedures for playground equipment and surfacing for a sustainable playground maintenance program unique to your agency

• Identify potentially hazardous conditions and describe solutions to correct these problems to ensure a safer play environment

 "I was impressed with the safety of the playground equipment." - Outreach Participant