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The Playground Safety Awareness Course introduces and reviews the skills and knowledge required to detect hazards and non-CSA compliant installations. The course also includes an on-site playground inspection exercise.
Course Summary:
- Duration: 7.5-8 hours (including breaks)
- Class size: Minimum 12 people, maximum 20
- Certificate of participation included
If you are interested in attending or scheduling a course in BC please contact:
Education & Initiatives Department
education@bcrpa.bc.ca
Learning Objectives:
- Introductions: why are you here?
- An understanding of playground accident occurrences
- An understanding of playground inspectors' responsibility and involvement
Learning Objectives:
- Accident Show & Tell: who records accidents?
- An understanding of accidents, causes and types of injuries
- Let’s design a dangerous slide
- Playing it safe: a snapshot of our changing playgrounds
- Breaking down injury statistics
- Hazard rating systems
Learning Objectives:
- Familiarity with the CSA Standard and the essential elements it contains
- Head & torso probes, unbounded opening (fish) probe, protrusion gauges, entanglements, finger crush test
- Other hazards: angular openings, tripping, looping, sharps, suspended elements
Learning Objectives:
- An understanding of routine technique for inspecting playgrounds
- Ability to:
- recognize different types of hazards
- inspect, measure and document the hazards
An onsite field exercise at a local playground to conduct a practical on-site playground inspection in class.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss playground inspection results
- Introduction to recommended actions including renovation solutions
- What’s new in CAN/CSA-Z614