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Playground Maintenance 101

Written by Liz Sankey | April 25, 2022

Maintaining your playground and play area is an important part of keeping children safe. Regularly checking on your playground and it's features reduces the risks of injury and prolongs the life of your equipment.

Planning Tools and Playground Safety

Our partners at GameTime provide safety resources: The Playground Maintenance Guide and Playground Supervision Guide. Authored by certified playground safety consultants, these comprehensive guidebooks will help you properly identify and correct potential hazards on the playground, and provide tips for supervising the play environment effectively.

Click the button below to request your copy of the Playground Maintenance Guide.

 

Fun, Active, and Safe Play

In the guide, we aim to help you define a maintenance plan to use as a vital component in protecting your investment, managing risk, improving children's play experiences, and controlling cost. The guide includes sample inspection forms to help identify procedures and to develop inspection protocols and procedures for your playground maintenance program.