Total Safety: A Comprehensive Approach

We don't just do playground safety inspections; we test, inspect, and/or audit everything, from practices and records to extant conditions, to give you the tools to serve your community while optimizing your resources.  

The best approach to safety considers all factors (equipment, surfacing, maintenance practices, record keeping, signage, etc.). 

RecShield combines impact safety testing, CPSI certified playground safety inspections, auditing, staff training, accessibility, local/site specific conditions, etc. to give your community a comprehensive program that improves safety, increases maintenance efficiency, protects from litigation, and improves the lifetime of your facilities

The potential sources of significant injury on a playground are numerous and often unpredictable.  Only a CPSI certified inspector is qualified to identify, test, and prioritize hazards. While safety is everyone's job, playground planning, surface testing, and playground safety inspections all require a certified expert to be carried out properly.  

Impacts from falls, snags that cause hang ups, entrapments, etc. are all far too common on public playgrounds. Children do not look for hazards when on a playground, and they shouldn't have to. When playgrounds are inspected, tested, and maintained properly, risk should always be minimal.  We can help you to mitigate risk before a child is injured.  

With accurate and timely data, proper training, and a general culture of safety and efficiency, maintenance programs are able to apply limited resources in ways that have the most impact. Simply adding more wood fiber, or swapping in a random bolt, is not only ineffective, it is typically negligent and dangerous.  we can help you put your limited resources to work in the most efficient way possible.

Protecting your community is not just about safety, protect their resources as well. Improperly maintained and managed playgrounds are an ever increasing source of litigation risk for communities. But you can avoid claims of negligence. 

When proper training, practices, and standards are in place, guidelines are met, safety is increased, and the likelihood of successful litigation when an injury does occur are dramatically decreased.