Play area risk assessments

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations recommend that owners and managers of premises should undertake a risk assessment of their facilities - this includes the children's playground.

Purpose

The purpose of risk assessment is to:

• undertake a systematic review of the potential for harm
• evaluate the likelihood of harm occurring.

When this is done the manager has to:

• decide whether the existing control measures are adequate
• decide whether more needs to be done