For a playground to thrive, good maintenance is essential. Learn how to maximize your agency or school’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:
- Summarize the importance of playground maintenance as key to maximizing playground value and managing risk.
- Outline how to develop high and low frequency inspection protocols and procedures for playground equipment and surfacing unique to your organization/agency.
- Identify at least five potentially hazardous conditions and describe solutions to correct.