Playground Partners

Enhancing safe child development through well-designed and regularly maintained playgrounds.

Playground Safety

Playground safety prevents life threatening injuries to children and provides peace of mind to those adults who care for them.

PROTECTING

Children

Emergency rooms see over 200,000 children a year for playground injuries. Most of these injuries are preventable.

Expert planning, design, and inspections are keys to protecting children on playgrounds.

Schools & Centers

Early child development centers and schools utilize playgrounds to enhance learning and health. 

Proper planning, design, and routine safety inspections can protect schools and centers from lawsuits.

Teachers & Caregivers

Children learn through play typically under the watchful eyes of caring teachers and caregivers. 

Safe playgrounds provide peace of mind to those adults who care for them.

How We Partner with You

Playground Partners offers expertise in four key areas.

Consulting & Design

Playground Partners is committed to providing client-centered consulting by involving the client in the design process. We are knowledgeable about the playground industry, children’s play, and child development. Our clients know their children.

Working together we create playgrounds that are fun, safe, and developmentally appropriate.

Safety Inspections

Safety inspections should be done daily by someone at the school daycare, or parks or park system.

Playground Partners provides annual safety inspections to protect children from hazards that they cannot anticipate and schools and centers from lawsuits. 

Teacher/Caregiver Training

Our training equips teachers and caregivers in child development through playgrounds, how to facilitate child-directed play, how to identify playground hazards, and what actions to take.

We inspire teachers and caregivers to see themselves as play-leaders, facilitating play and watching for potentially unsafe play. 

 

Maintenance & Repair

Playgrounds must be maintained frequently and regularly. Attention to resilient surfacing, the condition of the equipment and fall zones, and needed repairs is critical to children’s safety.  

Playground Partners can act on your behalf to get the repairs done or make the repairs for you.

Working together, we can keep everyone on the playground safe!