If you can show that you carry out high frequency work on guarded platform trolleys and not open A-frames you can achieve some beneficial premium adjustment, particularly for warehouses with over fifty employees. Similarly, state-based Work Safe inspectors are impressed by organisations that can provide maintenance records AND training records associated with each ladder’s unique asset. Team Systems is providing an API gateway so safety managers can integrate ladder inspection data directly into enterprise risk platforms, preparing their audits faster and strengthening governance maturity.
Digital Adoption in augmented-reality training modules
Young trades and logistic staff have growing expectations for interactive learning tools. This is being addressed by some RTOs which are increasingly offering augmented-reality headset sessions programmed so that a virtual platform ladder appears prominently within the users’ field of vision, overlaid with keyboard-controlled “hot-spots” relating to gate closure and safe reach zones. Trainees can practice simulated tasks without leaving the classroom, and that muscle memory will carry over to the real equipment. Team Systems works with partners to include product specific tutorials within these AR modules, to allow the curriculum to include brand nuances such as castor lock mechanisms. The method offers reduced training time while adhering to uniform safety protocols for any job site, everywhere.
The Circular Economy: Second Life, Refurbishment Markets
Targets for sustainability challenge companies to lengthen the service life of assets after typical retirement points. Team Systems’s Dandenong refurbishment centre performs non-destructive testing, abrasive blasting, and re-powder-coating of returned platform trolleys. Things like locks, wheels, gates, extended brake arms are replaced with OEM parts then the ladder is re-certified to the original load rating. Repaired units come with a one-year warranty, offering a budget-friendly path for mom-and-pop shops that seek industrial-strength protection but can’t afford brand-new stock. This looped system also takes tonnes of aluminium away from scrap merchants and helps the UK toward its national carbon reduction targets.
Platform Trolleys vs. Elevated Work Platforms
Boom lifts, the SUPERIOR reach, they offer unparalleled reach but also bring complexity: licensed operators, spotter required in some jurisdictions, and no go pedestrian zones. Where working heights are less than five meters and regular re-positioning is needed, heavy plant can’t match the compact manoeuvrability of a wheel platform ladder. A maintenance provider hired by a supermarket chain to service thousands of down lights – also provided by the chain – was able to execute the retrofit project two days ahead of time when it exchanged heavy mobile scissor lifts with light weight work platforms from Team Systems. And ditching the pick-up trucking fees and permit hang-ups resulted in a five-figure saving and zero lost-time injuries.
Tool Trays, Anti-Stat Chains, and More: Custom Accessories
The efficiency of a height access system is almost entirely dependent on how accessories are combined. Magnetic parts bowls prevent losing fasteners, and hook-on parts bins keep consumables at the ready. Electrostatic discharge (ESD) chains, now commonly found on trolleys used in electronics assembly, drag along on floors and help to ground stray charges so that latent defects can be avoided on very sensitive circuits. Team Systems has introduced a rail-slot system that is “modular”, and can accept third party attachments, and so becomes future proofed, when job requirements change.
Final thoughts
From the whirring warehouse of Brisbane and the sleek laneway Platform trolleys to the towering high-rise offices of Sydney and Melbourne and the hardworking machinery of regional Australia we are lifting the standards high and then some with our Premium Heavy-Duty Platform Ladder. Their flexibility reflects the diversity of Australia’s economy itself, catering to the needs of mining giants, boutique vintners and everything in between. With a fully-fleshed national logistics network and industry expertise, along with a dedication to eco-friendly innovation, Team Systems remains at the forefront, demonstrating that small thought-through design decisions, such as substituting a rung for a platform, can have a huge impact on safety and productivity.
