MAINTENANCE
Your playground had been designed using the highest quality materials. It is a highly active
structure that has been engineered, manufactured and installed for the utmost safety of the user.
For this reason, it will require routine inspection and maintenance. Certain heavily used areas
and features will wear faster than others. The key to operating a fun, safe and clean playground
is to be constantly looking over the equipment during your daily and weekly cleaning.
Routine Maintenance
Consists of tasks are performed on regularly scheduled basis. This may be daily, weekly or
monthly. These tasks are more custodial in nature.
Daily/ Weekly Visual Inspection:
Owner, maintenance inspector, caregiver, or customer on a
daily basis shall carry out a visual inspection, if possible, or at least once a week, to identify
defect or emerging problems. For example, litter pick-up, sweeping walkways or raking out
foreign matter and leveling wood chips or sand.
Preventative Maintenance
Daily
1.
Loose Bolts or other hardware
2.
Surface Flooring gaps or trip hazards.
3.
Anything tied to or added onto equipment
4.
Unrelated hazards; i.e., broken glass or any other sharp objects
Weekly
1.
Check damaged equipment: i.e., broken or missing components of equipment or other
playground damage caused by vandalism or wear.
2.
Check any broken or missing handrails, guardrails, protective barriers, or rung or
ladder.
3.
Check and replace if necessary swing “S” hooks.
4.
Repair plastic coating
5.
Paint touch-up to slow deterioration of metal components
6.
Tighten hardware.
