Suspended Scaffold – Swing Stage Access Solutions

August 15, 2018

When a job requires getting to extreme heights and system or frame scaffold isn’t practical or cost effective, suspended scaffold (also known as swing stage) may be the equipment for your job. There’s no doubt you’ve seen swing stage before, usually on high-rise buildings for maintenance, painting or window washing.

What exactly is suspended scaffold though? As it sounds, suspended scaffold is suspended, using an anchor generally secured to the roof of the structure being worked on. The scaffold system is then hooked up to suspension cables at each end of the platform. These cables allow the platform to ascend and descend as needed while the work is performed, even as people are working on it and using the platform. This allows for excellent vertical mobility, as workers can get themselves where they need quite easily.

Painting a building with Suspended Scaffold, swing staging

Working at heights, and especially on swing staging, brings along safety concerns as well. It is recommended and encouraged that workers enter and exit for platform only from the ground or roof levels and not at any intermediate levels. Suspended platforms are equipped with sturdy guardrail systems, but along with that personal fall arrest systems are recommended for further safety precautions.

swing stage scaffold for window cleaning on tall buildings

Seacoast Scaffold carries a wide range of suspended scaffold products, including motors, hoists, wire rope, suspended scaffold platforms and ‘knock-down’ panels, as well as a Bosun chair. We rent and erect swing stage and would be happy to help you design and erect your next project that requires suspended scaffold