Playground Maintenance: Providing a Safer Environment for Active, Fun Play

David Hill, GameTime | Room 2

Good maintenance is essential to the success and safety of a playground. The playgrounds that attract the most visitors are the ones where parents and kids feel safe. Learn how to maximize your playground maintenance efforts by properly identifying and correcting potentially hazardous conditions on the playground.

Learning objectives:

1) Learn what “good maintenance” includes and how to document it so that efforts are defendable if an accident does occur.
2) Learn to maximize playground maintenance efforts.

3) Learn to properly identify and correct potentially hazardous conditions.