Playgrounds for Schools undertakes safety surfacing work in accordance with the requirements laid out in BS EN 1177. This standard specifies the requirements for surfacing to be used on children’s playgrounds and specific requirements for areas where impact attenuation is necessary.
Our play equipment conforms to EN 1176. This European Standards stipulates general safety requirements for playgrounds and play equipment and is reinforced by established test and approval procedures.
The company is a member of the Association of Play Industries. The API is the lead trade body in the play sector and aims to promote good play space design, installation and workmanship.
Our personnel are fully certified to operate machinery whilst on site.
We are a CHAS approved company – a national body that checks and approves a company’s Health & Safety systems and processes.
Health & Safety
Playgrounds for Schools strictly adheres to Health & Safety requirements at all times. Clients are assured that our work will be completed with due diligence to the well-being of your staff, children, the general public and our own workforce.
Statement
Overall responsibility at Playgrounds for Schools for Health & Safety control, our environmental impact and managing our fire risk is vested in the Managing Director of the company.
The SHEF Statement (which can be observed throughout the company premises), indicates the structure and arrangement the company has set-up to achieve its objective of discharging its duty to comply with the Health & Safety Act 1974. This statement reflects the importance that Playgrounds for Schools attaches to protecting the environment, health, safety and welfare of all employees, and of all other persons who may be affected by their activities.
All management and staff are expected to adopt this company policy.
It is the company’s intention that Playgrounds for Schools will conduct its activities so as to avoid damage to the environment and to provide all personnel with, so far as is reasonably practicable:
- Safe facilities and equipment
- Safe systems of work
- Safe and healthy places of work
- Safety information, instruction, training and supervision to enable personnel to carry out their work/training safely and without risks to their health or to the environment.
Central to the successful provision of the above is a system that identifies significant workplace/fire hazards and carries out an assessment of the risk associated with them. The company expects managers to implement the systems and all employees to co-operate with its aims by bringing to the attention of management any significant hazards that might arise in the workplace area that are not subject to existing controls. The company will ensure that prompt action is taken to address all newly identified hazards with adequate controls as far as is reasonably practicable.