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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.