steel ropes must be replaced immediately.
General Maintenance Information:
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All children's playground equipment requires
• Does the ground show hard or pointed
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regular inspections and maintenance works.
objects (e.g. splinters of glass) and/or are the
• Does your playground equipment have
This applies in particular to all those units
play, fall, swing or slide areas dirty?
wooden platforms of roofs? These may show
which are mounted outdoors (throughout the
variations in their dimensions due to climatic
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whole year) and which incorporate moving
fluctuations despite their excellent surface
• Are there any exposed foundations?
parts or parts that are subject to wear and
treatment (pressure process, clear varnish
tear.
etc.). As the equipment is subject to both the
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The long life or our µ products can be
influence of the weather and constant playing,
• Do you identify sharp edges, broken or
guaranteed only if you provide regular
gaps and holes may form that may entrap the
missing parts?
maintenance and service. This is the best and
children's clothing. Please check during our
only way to permanently maintain the play
operative inspections whether the platform
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value for your children and the safety of your
floors (and the slides and other components
• Are components overly worn and torn?
µ products. You should make sure that
mounted to it) and the roof timberings are in
Please pay particular attention to moving
experts carry out all maintenance and service
perfect state. The above mentioned factors
parts such as chains, swing joints.
works. Inexpert inspections or repairs may
may require supplementary modifications.
endanger the safety of your children!
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The maintenance of your µ products
• Pay particular attention to the absence of
All damages and defects have to be eliminated
according to these instructions is prerequisite
pointed objects within the area of impact
immediately in order to guarantee the safety
to the µ warranty.
(make sure that there are no glass splinters or
and functional reliability of your µ
similar!). The flooring of the impact zone (e.g.
Basis to these maintenance recommendations
products.
sand, pebbles, bark mulch, fall protection
are our many years of experience. If your local
Please remember to enter your results in the
tiles) must be absolutely intact and have the
conditions and directives, your particular
maintenance report form!
correct height. Please observe the markings on
playground equipment or your own expertise
the poles and column bases.
and experience require different inspections
Major Annual Inspection:
and maintenance performances, please
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You should carry out the "Major Annual
adhere to the definitions given in the EN-
Inspection” after the winter or at least after 12
We strongly recommend the daily inspection of
standard 1176-7.
months. In addition to those of the "Monthly
heavily used or high-vandal-risk playgrounds.
EN 1176-7 Excerpts:
Operational Inspection”, the following checks
Daily inspections may also become necessary
7 Inspection schedule
are required:
in case of playgrounds that are close to the
7.1 To avoid accidents, the owner has to make
coast or located in highly air-polluted areas,
• Are all foundations okay and the equipment
sure that an adequate inspection schedule is
or which have already been in service for a
well ancored?
developed and adhered to for each
certain period of time.
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playground. In such schedule, all local
All damages and defects have to be eliminated
conditions and manufacturer's indications
• If necessary, provide all wooden, metal,
immediately in order to guarantee the safety
that may have an influence on the necessary
glazed and varnished parts and components
and functional reliability of your µ
maintenance frequency, have to be taken into
with a new finish.
products.
consideration.The inspection schedule should
Access to the playground equipment has to be
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list all parts, which have to be checked during
denied in the following cases:
the different inspections, and the inspection
• Replace joints that show severe corrosions or
• The equipment has not been fully or safely
procedures according to 6.2. [µ describes
heavy wear and tear.
installed
the execution of the inspection according to
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the procedures explained in 6.2 on the
• The shock-absorbing surface has not been
• Wooden components: All wooden
following pages].
fully installed
components exposed to weather conditions
7.2 If severe and safety-endangering defects
• The safety of operation cannot be
have to be checked. Please pay particular
are discovered during an inspection, they
guaranteed by maintenance works
attention to the parts planted underground as
should be eliminated immediately. If they
well as to all those components, which are
Operational Inspection:
cannot be repaired or replaced at once, the
essential to the static stability (e.g. cross bars
respective equipment has to be excluded from
Inspections once every
on swings, bridge supports, cableway struts)
use, e.g. by dismantling or closing it down.If
of the playground equipment.
6
months
an equipment component has to be removed,
e.g. for maintenance works, all anchoring or
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In addition to those of the "Visual Routine
foundations that remain in the ground have
Inspection”, the following checks are required:
All damages and defects have to be eliminated
to be removed also or be made inaccessible by
immediately in order to guarantee the safety
• Are all wooden components okay? (e.g. fast
means of covers. The construction site should
and functional reliability of your µ
and safe connection of the ladder rungs, no
then be secured.
products.
splinters or other damages)
The EN 1176-7 requires a visual routine
Please remember to enter your results in the
inspection for playgrounds. In the case of
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maintenance report form!
heavily frequented playgrounds or those
• Are all metal parts well connected and not
endangered by vandalism, daily checking may
worn down? ( please pay particular attention
be necessary. Sites in the vicinity of coasts, air
to swing joints and chain connections and
pollution and the age of the facilities may also
make sure they are not worn through)
render daily checking necessary. In the
The wall thickness/corrosion on the inside of
operative inspection, eibe specifies how often
pipes can be verified with the following test
which areas must be inspected on this piece of
procedure:
equipment in order to maintain safety
Electromagnetic test procedures such as eddy
standards for normal usage. After 12 months
current or magnetic leakage flux
at the latest (preferably following the winter
measurement
months) a “main annual inspection“ will be
required.
ultrasound
At the very end of these maintenance
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instructions you are offered a maintenance
report sheet for the entry of your equipment
• Are all screwed connections and bolted joints
maintenance results.
well fit? If not, please tighten them. Moving
parts may require greasing or oiling.
Visual Routine Inspection:
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• Check your µ product for visible
damages and loose parts
• Are all ropes and rope ladders okay? Frayed
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