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  • Guidelines/Best Practices
    • Recreation Risk Management Awareness Guideline
    • Recreation Facility Reopening COVID-19
    • Ice Arena Operations
      • The Paint Stick
    • Curling Ice Operations
    • Refrigeration Plant Operations
    • Aquatic Facility Operations
    • Buildings and Grounds
    • Staff and Management
    • Intact Public Entities
  • Facility Alerts
  • Facility Forum Magazine
    • Current Issue
    • Past Issues
    • Advertising Opportunities
  • Technical Corner
    • ORFA’s 30 Plus-Year Role in Boards, Shielding, and Protective Netting Design Best Practices
    • ORFA vs. Recreation Musical Tariff's Revisited
    • Working in Recreation Fun Facts
    • Do Lifeguards Require Safety Footwear?
    • ORFA Peer Review: Ice-Making Water, Microplastics, and Recreation Facilities
    • Shaping Recreation Management with AI Technologies
    • Aging Recreation Assets Forcing Long Over Due Conversations
    • Recent Ice Resurfacer Fire Has Many Unanswered Questions
    • Are the NHL Ottawa Senators the Joseph Bruce Ismay of the Ice Rink Industry?
    • Loss of Industry Leader Dan Berry, CIT – Snowmass, Colorado
    • The Future of Recreation Ice Facilities Will Require Progressive Political Leadership
    • New Ministry Requirements for Washroom Facility Cleaning Records Causes ORFA Membership Compliance
    • The Looming Propagation of Recreation Equipment SupplierManag
    • RFESM Course Explores Facility Air Manag
    • Understanding the Limits of Chemical Exposure
    • The Greenwashing of Recreational Ice Sheet Operations
    • Tariff Impact on Recreation Asset Management Requires Critical Operational Forecasting
    • ORFA Focuses on "Building Community" for the Future – Attracting and Retaining Competent Recreation
    • TMU Project Reconfirms CIT
    • MLITSD Inspections Generates Member Site Specific Questions
    • Making Informed Ice Sheet Industrial Refrigerant Decisions: What Also Needs to be Considered?
    • 25-Years Post Y2K – What Has Been Learned
    • The Evolution of Industrial Ice Sheet Refrigeration
    • Navigating Recreation Facility Regulatory Compliance
    • Recreation Under Attack
    • Past Recreation Facility Deferred Maintenance Will Be This Generations Future Challenge
    • Increased Risk of Violence in Recreation Trend
    • Ice Maintenance Standard or Guidance
    • The Future of AI in Recreation Facility Operation and Management
    • Off-Season Recreation Grounds Risk Care & Control
    • Ice Resurfacer Indoor Air Quality Rests With Facility Management
    • Hockey Canada Dressing Room Policy Requires Contract Clarification
    • Compliance and Safety Must Percolate Down From the “Owner”
    • The Anatomy of Skating Ice Maintenance
    • Facility Worker Rental Equipment Risks and Responsibilities
    • The Past & Future of Recreation Facility Concessions
    • Understanding The Facility Contract Indemnity/Hold Harmless and Insurance Clause
    • Competent vs. Qualified Recreation Professionals
    • Defining Facility Staff Job Description Titles
    • Dealing with Ontario’s Recreational Aging and Environmental Tree Inventory Risk
    • The Rising Risk of Handling Recreational Medical Waste
    • Understanding Professional Accreditation
    • Dealing with Ontario’s Recreational Aging and Environmental Tree Inventory Risk
    • Recreation Facility Fire and Life Safety
    • Recreation Facility Roof Top Solar Panel Risks
    • Dealing with Forest Fire Smoke at an Evacuation Centre with Smoke Eaters
    • Water Clarity Makes the Pool Operator a Lifeguards Best On-Deck Assistant
    • The Shift In Provincial Regulations As They Relate to Recreation is Interesting
    • The Right to Disconnect Law May Not Be Applicable to All
    • Reasonable Cost Recovery Based User Fees Are Key To Asset Management
    • Cross Ice Barriers Shines Light on User/Facility Relationships
    • What We Learned and Forgot from the Pandemic
    • How Will Inflation Impact Recreation in 2023
    • The Evolution of Creating Industry Best Practice
    • Operating Outdoor Aquatics Facilities in 2023
    • What Hockey Canada Can Learn from USA Hockey
    • Recreation Waste – Cradle to Grave
    • The Quiet Evolution of the Recreation Facility Frontline First Responder
    • Masking Recreation Facility Staff for the Winter of 2022/23
    • Managing The Risks From Above – Out of Sight, Out of Mind
    • King Charles III Picture Replacing the Queen
    • Bauer Raises the Issue of Fair and Equal Access to Ice But There is a Bigger Conversation to be Had
    • Monitoring the Shift Toward New Pool Chlorination Option
    • Dealing With 2022 Municipal Election Recreation Anxiety
    • Understanding Recreation Facility Relative Humidity Is Key To User Safety and Building Longevity
    • Thinking Outside The Traditional Ice Box
    • Pandemic Recovery – What Is The New Industry Normal?
    • Do Recreation Facilities Really Need Earth Day?
    • Closing the Gaps of Section 6 of Regulation 565: The Public Pool Designated Operator
    • Recreation Facility IAQ – A Managers Asset Management Challenge
    • Where Have All the Workers Gone?
    • We Need to Look at Rental Skates to Build Business?
    • Can we let users back into the building before the emergency lighting system has fully recharged?
    • 50 Plus Years Later Facility Measurements Are Still a Mix Bag of Metric and Imperial
    • Ontario’s Lifeguards – Caught in the “Perfect Storm”
    • The Other Side of a Recreation Facility as a Gathering Location
    • Bill Vass - Mr. Refrigeration
    • Fred Horvath – From the Frontlines to National Chair
    • Tony Brenner – A Mentor to Many
    • Ringette on the Eve of Turning 60
    • What Happens If An Operation Fails to Meet All the Standards & Best Practices?
    • The Importance of Facility Maintenance Tracking
    • 30-Years Since Westray and It Is Still A Predictable Path to Disaster
    • Controlling Safe Wheeled Movement in All Recreation Facilities
    • The Ethical Questions of the Environmental Impact of Battery Technology
    • What the ORFA Thinks is Complicated
    • Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Hot Water Flood?
    • Will We Really Ever Completely Turn The Corner on COVID?
    • History of Ice Sheet Refrigeration Plant Logbook Data Collection
    • Facility Management Challenges 2022
    • Municipal Purchasing
    • What Constitutes Vandalism?
    • Why We Need to Bring Back the Traditional Indoor Ice Season
    • Will Ontario Recreation Facility Decommissioning Soon Out Pace New Construction?
    • Canada’s Ice Sheets Contribution to Rock & Roll History
    • Effectively Playing the Recreational Grant Game
    • Facility First Aid
  • Media Centre
    • Videos
    • ORFA Webinar Series
    • Podcasts
      • Episode 1
      • Episode 2
      • Episode 3
      • Episode 4
      • Episode 5
      • Episode 6
      • Episode 7
  • Operational Audit Service
  • ORFA Presenter/Guest Speaker Services
  • Certified Ice Technician (CIT) Recertification Challenge Exam - Online
  • Safe Ice Resurfacer Operator Online
    • SIRO Online Resources
  • Discussion Board
    • Industry News
    • Retirements
    • In Memoriam
  • Recreation Facility Asset Management
    • Partners - Development - Future