Indoor playground belongs to high-frequency space, systematic maintenance and playground equipment cleaning directly affecting safety, hygiene, and operating income. Set a perfect maintenance and cleaning system, it is a key to ensure the indoor playground has stable operation in long term.
Good equipment has durability and easy-to-maintain features, but only works in with the scientific management process, then can really reduce the risks, protect investment and improve customer’s trust.
Maintenance Management
1. Systematic Maintenance Plan
Maintenance plan needs to coordinate with business hours to avoid affecting customer’s experiences. And the seasonal indoor playground can deal with the large-scale overhaul during off-season.
To advise setting up a maintenance system:
Daily inspection
Weekly structural inspection
Monthly tightening inspection
Annual professional safety assessment
To ensure that employee responsibilities
2. Daily Check
Before daily business begins or after closing to start visual inspection, and focus on:
Are the net ropes loose
Are the soft packs cracking or collapsing
Is there any exposed metal
Are there any tripping hazards
Are the plastic plates cracking
Are there any stains or odors on the surface
Is there any malicious damage
Handling these small problems in time, and avoiding high-cost maintenance later.
3. Monthly structural inspection
Monthly inspection focusing on the inner structure and connecting components:
Bolts, nuts, and fasteners
Steel frame interface
Climbing structure stability
Suspension device
Spring system(if it has the trampoline area)
To advise the cross inspection by 2 employees.
4. Annual professional safety assessment
Let professional inspectors perform the annual assessment, can:
Finding the hidden structural fatigue
Verify security compliance
Replace the parts of the plan in advance
Reducing accident and legal risks
Early detection, early treatment, and lower cost.
5. Employee Safety Training
All staff should know potential risks, for example:
Abnormal shaking
Soft pack deformation
Net rope slack
Loose fasteners
6 .Archive maintenance and inspection record
Set up a whole record, including:
Inspection date
Repair content
Replace parts
Cleaning and disinfection time
7. Strictly following manufacturer’s maintenance suggestion
You must strictly follow the manufacturer offers technical specifications when beginning any maintenance, repair, and replace.
Replacement management
High frequency contact parts(soft pack, net rope, connector, transparent sheet) will naturally wear, and need to replace in time.
You should follow the manufacturer's recommendations when replacing, and use original factory or compliant parts, to ensure that structural strength and validity of warranty.
How to Clean?
To know how to clean indoor playground equipment, it is a core of ensuring health and security.
The following are 5 steps cleaning process:
The First Step: Check the equipment manual
Before cleaning, check the equipment manual to confirm:
If it permits the use of disinfectant
If it permits the use of chlorine-containing products
If it bans the use of grinding tools
If it has fragile parts
To avoid material damage because of incorrect cleaning ways
The second step: Use the mild cleaner to clean the surface
You can use warm water and the mild cleaner to clean most surfaces.
Operation suggestion:
Use the ultra-fine fiber cloth to clean the plastic sheet.
Texture area can use a soft bristle brush.
High-frequency contact area needs cleaning every day.
The Third Step: Disinfection or sterilization treatment
Must begin to disinfection treatment after cleaning. High-frequency contact area needs disinfecting every day.
Difference:
Disinfect: Reduce germs to a safe level.
Sterilize: Kill bacteria, virus, and fungi.
The Fourth Step: Key areas cleaning
High usage area needs strengthening cleaning:
Slide exit
Steps
Entrance area
Ball pit edge
Transparent viewing window
Local cleaning can reduce the long-term stain deposition in time.
The Fifth Step: Deep cleaning regularly
Besides daily cleaning, and also needs deep cleaning, including:
Disassemble and clean the soft pack.
Clean the internal network.
Vacuuming hidden areas.
Clean the ventilation system.
Systematic maintenance management and the playground equipment cleaning process, it is the basis of indoor playground safety operations.
Understanding the scientific “how to clean” ways, and working in with daily inspection, structural inspection, staff training, and record system, that can reduce the risks, extend the equipment service life, and keep improving customer trust.
