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Maintenance Education Session Topics

Playground Inspection and Maintenance: Preserving the Play Environment, Promoting the Value of Play, and Protecting Children

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 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. This session will allow you to identify procedures for correcting hazardous conditions and to develop inspection protocols and procedures for a sustainable playground maintenance program.

  1. Define the importance of maintenance as a key to maximizing the recreation and play value and managing risk.
  2. Generate high and low frequency inspection protocols and procedures for a sustainable maintenance program.
  3. Identify potentially hazardous conditions in the recreation and play environment and define proper maintenance practices for playground equipment and surfacing.
  4. Summarize a variety of tools and generate a playground maintenance program unique to your environment.

  • 2025 Recording / Playground Inspection & Maintenance: Preserve, Promote, Protect
    Contains 4 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 04/25/2024

    Sustainable maintenance programs are essential to positive outdoor play experiences for children at their school and community playgrounds. This year, National Playground Safety Week is observed on April 22-25, and this webinar is designed to create awareness, maximize the value of playground investments, and create safer outdoor play destinations that promote healthy risk-taking and fun! Routine maintenance and visual inspections are key to preserving play and recreation environments, and properly identifying and addressing potentially hazardous conditions supports safer opportunities to engage in the lifelong benefits of play.

  • 2025 Recording / Making Playground Safety and Management a Top Priority Series / Putting Your Maintenance Plan into Action
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 08/22/2023

    The Advocating for Maintenance to Upper Management session will offer play facility owners and administrators information on the needs and benefits of these spaces. In addition, financial consequences of poorly maintained areas, and duties to manage and operate the facility to the highest safety levels will be covered. Special attention will be given to the role of the agency management to establish a proactive inspection, maintenance, and repair philosophy throughout the agency/department. During the session, we will discuss the key points of a written policy and procedures document to manage public play areas, the importance of hiring qualified inspectors and maintenance technicians to implement the policy, and the importance of continuously training staff.

  • 2025 Recording / Making Playground Safety and Management a Top Priority Series / Advocating for Maintenance to Upper Management Levels
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 06/27/2023

    The Advocating for Maintenance to Upper Management session will offer play facility owners and administrators information on the needs and benefits of these spaces. In addition, financial consequences of poorly maintained areas, and duties to manage and operate the facility to the highest safety levels will be covered. Special attention will be given to the role of the agency management to establish a proactive inspection, maintenance, and repair philosophy throughout the agency/department. During the session, we will discuss the key points of a written policy and procedures document to manage public play areas, the importance of hiring qualified inspectors and maintenance technicians to implement the policy, and the importance of continuously training staff.