Playgrounds, Wellness, and Physical Equipment
Parks and recreation areas provide free options for healthy activity to individuals and families alike. This area contains resources applicable to maintenance of playgrounds, wellness circuits, and other types of physical equipment within our parks.
Burn Safety Awareness on Playgrounds
Consumer Product Safety Council, 2012
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) wants you to be aware of the risk of thermalburns from playground equipment.
Strangulation Hazard with Playground Cargo Nets
Consumer Product Safety Council, 2012
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Council (CPSC) advises parents to check outdoor play equipment with cargo nets before allowing children to climb on them.
SAMPLE - Parks Quality Standards Manual
Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation, 2019
It is the intent of this manual to clearly identify expectations relative to desired maintenance and to provide employees with the basic information and direction needed to effectively perform their work.
SAMPLE - RFP for Parks, Facilities, and Playgrounds Master Plan
City of Goleta, 2017
The City seeks to retain the services of a consultant firm, or firms working in partnership, to carry out a comprehensive Parks, Facilities and Playgrounds Master Plan. This effort will require close coordination with the City and other community special interest groups. The main objectives of the process are to create a planning document for parks that will address capital improvements and ADA accessibility projects, priorities, funding strategies, maintenance standards and costs.
SAMPLE - Maintenance Management Plan Presentation Slides
City of El Paso, 2019
Justification and outline for a public meeting, focusing on the city Parks and Recreation Maintenance Management Plan.
Low Frequency Playground Inspection Form
International Playground Safety Institute, 2011
Template form to assist in developing a custom low frequency inspection process for each monitored playground.
Playground Inspection Frequency Form
International Playground Safety Institute, 2011
Use this form to help you evaluate the frequency of inspection for each playground in your supervision.
High Frequency Playground Inspection Form
International Playground Safety Institute, 2011
Template form to assist in developing a custom high frequency inspection process for each monitored playground.
Standard Specification for Impact Attenuation of Surfacing Materials
ASTM International
This specification specifies impact attenuation performance requirements for playground surfaces and surfacing materials and provides a means of determining impact attenuation performance using a test method that simulates the impact of a child’s head with the surface. The test method quantifies impact in terms of G-max and Head Injury Criterion (HIC) scores. G-max is the measure of the maximum acceleration (shock) produced by an impact.
Standard Guide for ASTM Standards on Playground Surfacing
ASTM International
This guide covers standards for selecting and specifying surface systems under and around playground equipment.
SAMPLE - Periodic Playground Safety Self-assessment
New Hampshire Dept. of Health & Human Services
It is recommended that you use this checklist to complete periodic safety checks of outdoor play areas to reduce the potential for accidents and injuries.
Playground Inspection & Maintenance Guide
GameTime, 2019
The purpose of this overview resource is to raise awareness about some considerations for a routine playground inspection and maintenance program.
ReOpening & OperationsStrategies for Challenge Courses & Aerial Attractions
The Alliance Collaborative
It is important to note that this document is NOT a standard, or even guidelines. We’ve found that it is more beneficial toprovide a framework of approach, general information based on the best data we have, and strategies that operators can apply based on their individual needs.
Playground Reopening Guidance
Kaboom
This guidance complements and builds from existing guidance by the CDC, andthe National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) on playground cleaning andmaintenance that playground owners and operators should consult and integrate asappropriate for their contexts.
Reopening Recreation Facilities During COVID-19
ePACT
To encourage the safe, effective delivery ofprogramming as states lift stay-at-home orders and rollout phased reopening strategies, ePACTconducted a sector-wide survey of communityorganizations that provide recreation and childcare programs to find out how the sector is preparing facilities, staffing, programs, and members for the reopening of their facilities and launching of new programs.
