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Harvest season isn’t exactly a walk in the park. It’s high-pressure, fast-paced, and full of unexpected challenges. And when a key piece of machinery breaks down, every second counts. In a vineyard, downtime is costly. That’s the situation Tahbilk Estate, one of Australia’s oldest wineries nestled in Victoria’s Nagambie Lakes, found themselves in. Their Pellenc harvester proved tricky to access—especially when a hopper jammed in the middle of the night, out in the field. Difficult to access with a ladder and not enough time for scaffolding, Tahbilk needed something better. To improve safety and efficiency, they turned to SafeSmart Access for a better solution.   Harvester Access in the Real World Working at height on uneven ground is never easy—add poor lighting and tight spaces, and it quickly becomes a serious safety issue. Traditional ladders and scaffolding weren’t reliable or fast enough to keep up with urgent, late-night maintenance tasks. The harvester’s hopper is especially difficult to reach, and delays during a breakdown can stall the entire harvest. Tahbilk needed a smarter way to work—one that could handle rough terrain and keep everything moving, even under pressure.   The Cantilever Platform To address these challenges, the innovative cantilever platform by Safesmart Access is a masterclass in design efficiency and functionality. It enables technicians to safely navigate around the protruding elements of the harvester, such as the hopper, without compromising stability. The overhanging structure provides a sturdy, unobstructed platform that is crucial for performing detailed work on top of the harvester, such as unblocking the conveyers during harvesting & general maintenance to the machines.   Safer Crews, Faster Turnarounds since bringing in the cantilever platform, the team at Tahbilk has seen a clear difference. Maintenance is quicker, crews are safer, and harvests keep moving without unnecessary delays. It’s made those middle-of-the-night repairs faster

From Scaffold to Tailored Access Platforms: BHP’s Workshop Transformation The Bowen Basin—an expanse of coal-rich land in Queensland, Australia, where the work is tough, the machinery is enormous, and the margins for error are non-existent. BHP, one of Australia’s and the world’s mining powerhouses, has long operated in this high-stakes environment, where efficiency and safety isn’t just important—it’s everything. For years, the go-to solution for maintenance has been scaffolding. It has its place but is often fraught with time-consuming erection and large stocks of poles and planks. Then, only to be torn down again between workshop or plant tasks – requires resources such as, personnel, and storage space. So, BHP decided to take action when they contacted SafeSmart Access for a scaffolding reduction audit. Scaffolding, the Dinosaur of Workshop Maintenance Mining is, by nature, a hazardous industry. Gigantic machines, unpredictable terrain, and the occasional explosive make it a less-than-forgiving place to work. Now, throw in scaffolding—a system that demands an army of workers to assemble and disassemble at every maintenance stop—and you get an operation that drain time and money. By no means are we advocating that scaffolding be forgone entirely; we are only demonstrating that a safer and efficient way exists through scaffolding reduction audits. So, the challenge was clear: find a solution that was faster, safer, one that didn’t require a substantial work force just to put together. Static to Mobile: Trailer-Mounted Access Platforms Before the solution came the first step: a scaffolding reduction audit. BHP knew they needed to streamline their maintenance operations but didn’t have a clear roadmap. That’s where SafeSmart Access came in—conducting a thorough audit to identify pain points and create a strategy for scaffolding reduction. Through a comprehensive site review and scaffold reduction audit, SafeSmart Access proposed introducing Trailer-Mounted Access Platforms as its

How Sydney Trains Innovatively Implemented Cantilever Platforms to Streamline Maintenance Operations Rail networks are the circulatory system of a city, and keeping them running smoothly requires constant upkeep. However, rail maintenance processes are often fraught with inefficiencies, approval challenges, and static infrastructure struggling to meet modern demands. A scene where SafeSmart Access aims to alleviate some of these pains with practical platforms for the task at hand. Housed at Sydney Trains’ Granville facility, are extremely high-tech track vehicles that are responsible for ‘scanning’ the entire Sydney Trains rail infrastructure network every 2 weeks, monitoring for defects, developing faults and any preventative maintenance that is needed to keep the network in top condition. Here, in Granville, the maintenance teams encountered a particularly persistent issue: two maintenance roads—one equipped with a service pit and the other without—yet no efficient means of transferring a cantilever platform between them. The consequence? Time-intensive and costly repositioning of track vehicles for routine inspections. That’s when Sydney Trains reached out to our rail access industry experts at SafeSmart. Identifying the Maintenance Challenges The existing cantilever platform at Granville was not designed to work over the pit road, requiring maintenance crews to reposition rollingstock vehicles frequently. The essential track vehicles based at Granville need regular inspections to be maintained in perfect working order, and without a more flexible solution, the process risked delays, increased costs, and potential service disruptions. The key task for the Cantilever Platform was accessing the highly sensitive camera equipment mounted to the front and rear of the track inspection vehicle. This equipment needs to be cleaned of any debris between each deployment of the vehicle, a sometimes more than daily task. A review of the system made it clear: the existing platform, supplied previously by SafeSmart Access in 2018, needed a serious upgrade. The