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Maintenance
Facilities
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Maintenance Facilities
What is the Maintenance
Facility?
It could be called:
-The physical plant
-The turf care Facility
What is the function of the turf care facility?
1) Home base for employees- Lunchroom, locker
room, restrooms
2) Offices for staff- Superintendent, Asst. and
Mechanic
3) Equipment and tool Storage-keeps expensive
equipment out of elements
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4) Fuel Storage
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5) Pesticide and fertilizer storage
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6) Topdressing Storage- somewhere near compound
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7) Equipment
wash pad
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Work performed at turf care facility includes:
1) Equipment repairs
2) Mower sharpening-often separate room
3) Wood working
4) Irrigation controls and programming –computer
5) Record keeping-weather, pesticides, ledgers, gas,
personnel, DEP etc.
6) Budget preparation, personnel management etc.
7) Staff meetings
Features found and/or designed into a
maintenance facility (not limited to these) are:
1) Heated and cold storage
2) Employee facilities (male and female) including
showers
3) Offices for staff - Superintendent, Asst. and
Mechanic with computer fax machine etc.
4) Locker Room
5) Lunch or break room
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6) Grinding and
sharpening room
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7) Exhaust fans
8) Spray painting booth
9) Proper lighting
10) Numerous Electrical outlets
11) Numerous air outlets for pneumatic tools
10) Hydraulic lift for equipment
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11) First aid kits and eye wash stations
12) Easy access to MSDS sheets
13) Good traffic flow throughout building
14) Meeting room with educational tools ie T.V.
15) Pesticide storage facilities
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16) Computerized gas storage inventory and leak
detection system
17) Safe and properly designed equipment wash
pad areas
18) Some facilities contain housing, plant labs,
soil labs etc.
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