Elevated Walkways & Gantry Platforms
Access platforms and gantries are custom-engineered elevated stair walkways access systems for work at heights. It is a safe and efficient access methodology to equipment and maintenance areas.
These stair platforms and gantries are lightweight, durable, and made to handle complex site configurations & conditions.
Safetylyne structural access gantries allow compliant, reliable movement across your site, and building levels making it simple and safe to reach elevated work zones and developed to suit the operational site needs.
What Is an Access Gantry Platform?
An
access gantry platform is a fixed, elevated walkway / elevated access work area. It is often used for maintenance access and for movement between different heights on site. This access system allows safe and reliable movement around equipment, machinery, building infrastructure, or silos, e.g.
tank access walkway platform, etc.
These access platforms are ideal for industrial, commercial, and transport settings where workers perform tasks at heights or need to move over elevated obstacles.
Purpose-Built for Safety and Access
Access elevated walkway platforms provide a stable, designated surface for maintenance workers to walk, work, or inspect safely at heights.
Safety and functional features of elevated walkways include:
- Non-slip walking surfaces
- Guardrails and toe boards for fall protection
- Stair or ladder access points
- Clearance designed around equipment or obstructions
- Modular or custom-built configurations
These platforms are widely used across a range of industries where overhead or elevated access is required. The Safetylyne team is experienced in designing, manufacturing, and installing elevated walkway gantry systems in various facilities.
Safetylyne has engineered, fabricated and successfully delivered elevated walkway systems for various facilities and access applications. Here are some projects we have designed the gantries for:
- Warehouses and depots – for access over parked vehicles, bays, or conveyor lines
- Processing and manufacturing plants – for maintenance around production lines or overhead services
- Transport and logistics hubs – to access truck trailers, tankers, or containers
- Mechanical and roof areas – where access to HVAC units or service corridors is needed
- Access to kilns
- Access to heat exchangers
- Access to hatches to the good storage
- Conveyor Access Gantry Walkways Systems
- Elevated walkways for cold storage racking systems
- Gantry platform access to grain silos
- Suspended walkways to cotton storage facilities
- Water /treated effluent storage access walkway platforms
- Access to elevated pumping systems and other facilities.
Each elevated platform is engineered to meet site-specific access needs and operational demands.
Designed to Australian Standards
All Safetylyne gantry platforms are designed and manufactured in compliance with AS1657, ensuring the highest safety standards for platforms, walkways, stairways, and ladders. This helps building and industrial facility managers to meet all WHS obligations and create safer, more compliant workplaces, and engineer out the risks.
Structural walkways Engineered to Fit YOUR SITE
Safetylyne designs and fabricates structural access walkway platforms and integrates them seamlessly into your facility - indoors or outdoors.
From design and compliance through to fabrication and installation, we tailor each system to suit your workflow, layout, and safety priorities.
Gantry Platforms and Elevated Walkways
Elevated access gantry walkway systems provide safe access to hard-to-reach areas. They feature ergonomic designs to suit a range of tasks and improve efficiency for industrial maintenance, equipment transportation, and site pedestrian logistics.
Key features of structural elevated walkways/gantries:
+ Stable and secure ergonomic structures for safe work at heights
+ Compliance with Australian standards for ladders and platforms
+ Options for fixed, portable, or suspended walkway systems
+ Durable construction, often with non-slip surfaces, guardrails, and stairs or stairs for safe access, essential for work at heights
+ Safetylyne's gantry platforms can be installed on uneven surfaces to provide a safe, compliant, and even working surface for an easy access solution.
Types of Gantry Platforms
1. Fixed Gantry Platforms / Maintenance Access Gantry Platforms
A permanent structural access solution for repetitive tasks or areas requiring constant access. These platforms are ideal for:
- Industrial equipment maintenance access
- Conveyor or plant system inspections access
- Warehouses with elevated access needs for height safety
These fixed access platforms support routine servicing inspections and pedestrian traffic movement across the facility. They give workers stable, safe access for HVAC work machinery and conveyor access, and maintenance access hatches and viewing windows.
2. Suspended walkways
Suspended access walkways are sometimes suspended from structural elements to provide access to service areas.
Suitable Applications
Choose suspended gantry platforms for:
- Building and plant maintenance access, production line access, food manufacturing conveyors access, storage access, including cold storage access, warehouse access solutions.
- Accessing large machinery or plant equipment
- Safely walking through facilities, warehouses, conveyors, abattoirs, and ceiling spaces access
3. Operations platforms / Tanker and Truck Access Platforms
Specialised walkway platforms designed for safe movement around large vehicles such as trucks, tankers, and mining machinery access.
Suitable applications:
- Improving worker safety for loading, unloading, and maintenance tasks
- Stability for high-risk environments
- Custom-engineered designs to accommodate different vehicle, tank, and silo sizes
4. Stair GANTRY Platforms
Combining stairs and platforms provides ideal access for ergonomic and secure movement between levels.
Application examples for fixed stair platforms
- Industrial facilities with multi-level operations
- Construction sites requiring elevated access for working at heights
- Warehouses and logistics height safety solutions
5. Bridge Deck Gantry Platforms
Bridge deck gantry platforms create safe, stable access for construction, maintenance, and inspection tasks across bridges, and large industrial sites, e.g. access between structures, roofs, and building elements.
Each system is engineered for strength and stability, providing a reliable footing on uneven or challenging surface conditions.
Applications
- Access for bridge and service maintenance, e.g. in mining
- Elevated movement across uneven or sloped terrain
- Safe crossover and inspection zones on construction, water infrastructure, and mining sites
- Industrial facilities with elevated, irregular work areas
- Can be used as a bridge between two sections of the roof or plant

6. Viewing Gantry Platforms
Viewing gantry platforms create safe, elevated areas for monitoring operations, training, or observation in busy industrial and commercial environments.
They’re often used in facilities such as recycling plants for safe viewing, distribution centres, manufacturing floors, and large workshops where visibility and supervision are essential.
Applications
- Safe observation and monitoring of the factory and production lines
- Training and demonstration viewing walkways and platforms
- Public or staff observation platforms for stadiums, arenas, or industrial sites
Benefits
- These Elevated Access Solutions provide clear, elevated visibility over active or restricted areas
- Built for stability, safety, and comfort during extended use
- Available in custom heights, sizes, and railing configurations to suit site requirements
Key Features to Look For When Selecting an Access Platform or Gantry
+ Compliance
Make sure every platform and gantry meets Australian Standards for ladders, platforms, and walkways. Compliance ensures the system is built for long-term safety and reliability.
+ Material
Aluminium is the preferred choice for strength, corrosion resistance, and low maintenance. It performs well in harsh environments and remains lightweight for easier installation.
+ Safety Features
Prioritise features that protect workers during use, such as non-slip surfaces, guardrails, and integrated fall protection or edge safety systems.
+ Custom Design
Select a platform tailored to your project’s layout and access needs. Custom design ensures better fit, improved workflow, and greater operational efficiency on site.
Australian Standards for Elevated Walkway Platforms and Gantries
Ensuring Safety and Compliance
Platforms and gantries in Australia must comply with strict safety regulations to ensure the well-being of workers and the durability of the structures. Key standards include AS/NZS 1657, which governs the design, construction, and installation of fixed platforms, walkways, stairways, and ladders, ensuring they provide safe access and prevent falls.
AS/NZS 4994.1 standard covers temporary edge protection systems, critical for gantries and elevated work areas.
These standards mandate features like guardrails, non-slip surfaces, and appropriate load ratings, ensuring platforms and gantries are fit for purpose in industrial, construction, and maintenance environments.
Compliance with these standards is not only a legal requirement but also a vital component of workplace safety and operational efficiency.
How do you integrate gantry platforms into Height Safety Design Configuration?
We design complex height safety systems and height safety layouts, which can combine harness restraint systems along with a service platform.
This provides for service workers who need to access areas outside of guardrails, platforms and require fall restraint to carry out maintenance works.
Examples of fall restraint systems, which integrate well with maintenance platforms, are: overhead rails, static lines, and anchor points.
For example, Safetylyne has designed, engineered, and installed a complete access system featuring a gantry platform recently - automated racking in freezer systems, liquid storage vats and timber sorting machines.
Gantry platforms can be integrated into your height safety design with other access systems, such as ladders, walkways, etc.
All our gantry platforms feature:
- Customisable designs for specific site layouts
- Durable materials for heavy-duty use
- Compliance with Australian safety standards and regulations for work at heights
- Dissimilar metals. Metal separation to address dissimilar metal configurations.
Benefits:
- Non-slip surfaces and guardrails for safety
- Flexibility to reach different heights and angles
- Suitable for corrosive and humid environments
- Designed and certified to meet Australian standards for working at height
- Built for both indoor and outdoor use with corrosion-resistant materials
- Custom configurations to suit variable ground levels and site layouts
- Integrated guardrails and non-slip surfaces for secure maintenance and crossover access
- Enhanced safety features, including guardrails and non-slip surfaces, for secure operations for maintenance access, crossover access, work at heights, mining sites access, pipelines crossover, etc
Flooring material can be customised to the application.
Gantry walkway material options:
- Aluminium Mesh
- Aluminium Pank
- FRP
Elevated Walkways Engineering & Fabrication
Safetylyne specialises in the design, manufacture, and installation of gantry platforms, access platforms, and other height safety solutions.
We ensure every solution is suitable to meet specific operational needs while prioritising safety and compliance.
Why Safetylyne Access Systems are the Smart Choice?
+ Engineered and Manufactured in Australia. Designed to handle tough Australian conditions.
+ Compliant and Durable. Adheres to all relevant safety standards and regulations, ensuring reliability over time.
+ Custom Solutions.
From fixed gantry platforms to portable access platforms, solutions are tailored to your industry and site requirements.
Get Expert Advice on Compliant Access Systems Today
Choosing the right platform is crucial for safety, productivity, and compliance.
Contact Safetylyne today for a consultation and discover how our tailored solutions can meet your operational need.
