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Playground Equipment Safety Checklist

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This playground equipment checklist helps schools and facility teams conduct routine inspections to prevent injuries and ensure compliance. Review foundations, structural integrity, surface finishes, ropes and chains, edges, pinch and crush points, moving parts, guards and hand rails, access steps, swing seats, and impact absorbing surfaces. Use it to document issues, assign actions, and maintain safe play areas.

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Playground Equipment Checklist
This playground equipment inspection checklist helps schools, childcare centers, and facility managers evaluate the condition and safety of play structures. Verify foundations, structural integrity, surface finishes, and consumable items like ropes and chains. Check for sharp edges, pinch or crush points, and wear on moving parts. Confirm guards, handrails, and swing barriers are present, ensure safe access via steps and rungs, and assess impact-absorbing surfaces across fall zones to maintain a safe play environment.
by Clive Mason, from the Community
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Playground Safety Checklist - West Leigh Juniors
Use this school playground inspection checklist to assess equipment condition and site safety at West Leigh Juniors. Verify structure integrity, coatings and surfaces, chains and ropes, fixings, edges and protrusions, pinch or crush points, guard rails, welding, access steps, swing seats, and foundations. Check for trip hazards and confirm impact absorbing surfaces are adequate and uncontaminated. Record issues and determine next steps to repair, replace, or remove unsafe items.
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Visual Playground Inspections
A practical checklist for visual playground inspections covering access and area condition, surrounding vegetation, structural integrity, components, sharp projections, mechanical parts, chains and ropes, drainage, soft-fall surfaces, and synthetic grass. Includes sections for notes and a required signature on completion. Ideal for councils, schools, and facility teams to standardize park safety audits and document issues and corrective actions.
by Ed Fry, from the Community
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Annual Playground Inspection Checklist
This annual playground inspection checklist helps parks, schools, and facilities conduct a comprehensive review of playground safety in line with relevant standards. It guides inspectors through assessing structures, surface finishes, hardware, edges, guards and handrails, ladders and steps, swings, see-saws and springers, footings, and softfall materials. It also addresses site-specific risks such as overhanging trees, sharp edges, drainage, and debris. Use this template to document findings, add photos, and confirm that all items are in working order to maintain a safe, compliant play environment.
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Playground Equipment Checklist

This playground equipment inspection checklist helps schools, childcare centers, and facility managers evaluate the condition and safety of play structures. Verify foundations, structural integrity, surface finishes, and consumable items like ropes and chains. Check for sharp edges, pinch or crush points, and wear on moving parts. Confirm guards, handrails, and swing barriers are present, ensure safe access via steps and rungs, and assess impact-absorbing surfaces across fall zones to maintain a safe play environment.

by Clive Mason, from the Community

10+

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Playground Safety Checklist - West Leigh Juniors

Use this school playground inspection checklist to assess equipment condition and site safety at West Leigh Juniors. Verify structure integrity, coatings and surfaces, chains and ropes, fixings, edges and protrusions, pinch or crush points, guard rails, welding, access steps, swing seats, and foundations. Check for trip hazards and confirm impact absorbing surfaces are adequate and uncontaminated. Record issues and determine next steps to repair, replace, or remove unsafe items.

by Russell Sampson, from the Community

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Template

Visual Playground Inspections

A practical checklist for visual playground inspections covering access and area condition, surrounding vegetation, structural integrity, components, sharp projections, mechanical parts, chains and ropes, drainage, soft-fall surfaces, and synthetic grass. Includes sections for notes and a required signature on completion. Ideal for councils, schools, and facility teams to standardize park safety audits and document issues and corrective actions.

by Ed Fry, from the Community

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Annual Playground Inspection Checklist

This annual playground inspection checklist helps parks, schools, and facilities conduct a comprehensive review of playground safety in line with relevant standards. It guides inspectors through assessing structures, surface finishes, hardware, edges, guards and handrails, ladders and steps, swings, see-saws and springers, footings, and softfall materials. It also addresses site-specific risks such as overhanging trees, sharp edges, drainage, and debris. Use this template to document findings, add photos, and confirm that all items are in working order to maintain a safe, compliant play environment.

by Pieter Smit, from the Community

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Playground Equipment Safety Checklist

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