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Health & Safety in Playgrounds
& Play Areas

Throughout the country there are a significant number of playgrounds and play spaces provided by local authorities, corporations, housing associations and others where parents and guardians expect their children to play in facilities that are enjoyable and safe to use.

Providers of play facilities have a legal responsibility to keep their playgrounds and play spaces in a safe condition.

Medway Safety Limited can now offer our clients a survey of play facilities and play spaces including playgrounds and ball courts to suit their needs.

From undertaking the initial survey and risk assessments, we can provide training for staff on inspection methods and if appropriate we can make arrangements for emergency repairs.

Working with Approved Contractors, we can also manage the refurbishment of existing schemes and the planning and implementation of new schemes.

Medway Safety Limited has devised a simple report format which is used to present the findings of the survey and generally covers the following areas:-

Regime of Routine Inspections Regime of Routine Inspections
Maintenance Inspection Maintenance Inspection
Fault Reporting Fault Reporting
Hygiene and Cleaning Hygiene and Cleaning
Your Corporate Site Specific Signage Your Corporate Site Specific Signage
Record of Inspections, Repairs, Maintenance, Checks Record of Inspections, Repairs, Maintenance, Checks
Risk Assessment Risk Assessment
Staff Training Staff Training
Site Specific daily visual check sheet Site Specific daily visual check sheets
Arrange Independent periodical and annual inspections Arrange Independent periodical and annual inspections
Draw up or review of your Playground and Play Space Policy Draw up or review of your Playground and Play Space Policy
Disability Discrimination Act [DDA] Disability Discrimination Act [DDA]


Clearly the emphasis is to provide our clients with sensible cost effective advice, whilst maintaining the safety of children using any such play area within their area of responsibility.

In summary our services in this area are as follows;

Site Survey Site Survey
Preparation of site risk assessments Preparation of site risk assessments
Preparation of site report with supporting photographs Preparation of site report with supporting photographs
Emergency repairs Emergency repairs
Managing the refurbishment of existing playgrounds Managing the refurbishment of existing playgrounds
Managing and implementing new playground designs Managing and implementing new playground designs
Training of staff to conduct inspections Training of staff to conduct inspections