01 - What We Do

Eight capabilities. One TSA.

Drapes & Accessories→ Soft goods, FR treatment, hire fleet. Sets, Scenery & Props→ Scenic builds, props, set hardware. Lifting & Rigging→ Chain, pile & drum hoists, controllers, consumables. Production Engineering→ Production management, design, custom kit. Venue Engineering & Installation→ Fit-outs, integration, upgrades. Dance & Studio Equipment→ Sprung floors, barres, mirrors, vinyl. Compliance & Service→ Inspections, certificates, callouts. Hire & Touring→ Calendar-driven kit. National coverage.
Products
Services
Drapes & Accessories Soft goods, supplied and supported. Drapes, tracks, FR treatment and hire fleet from our in-house workshop. Theatre-grade soft goods, engineered, FR-treated and serviced under TSA.
Services
Sets, Scenery & Props Built in-house. Toured nationally. Set construction, prop fabrication, museum and gallery fit-out and exhibition builds from our dedicated workshop. Concept to strike, with the engineering paperwork to back it.
Products
Services
Lifting & Rigging Rated gear. Stocked and serviced here. EXE Rise and Ace chain hoists, TSA pile and Hercules drum hoists, Atlas controllers, full consumables range. Design, supply, install, service, recertify.
Services
Production Engineering When off-the-shelf stops working. Production management, technical design and drafting, custom fabrication and cue-driven motion control. The technical side of your show - managed, designed, built and run.
Services
Venue Engineering & Installation Fit-out to commission, one team. Venue fit-outs, system installation, integration and safety upgrades. From new-build PACs to retrofit refurbishments. Engineered, documented, signed off.
Products
Dance & Studio Equipment Made for the joints that depend on it. Sprung floors, Tarkett performance vinyl, ballet barres, studio mirrors, tap and sports flooring. Measured, manufactured and installed to the room.
Inspections & programmes
Specialist inspections
Compliance & Service The paperwork your insurer asks for. Service & Inspection Programme, Venue Systems Health Check, electrical testing, emergency callouts. Defensible documentation, on schedule.
Services
Hire & Touring Calendar-driven kit. National coverage. Drape hire, hoist hire, touring packages. The same kit you'd buy, available on a calendar. Picked, prepped, shipped, collected.
02 - Industries

Eleven industries. One TSA.

Theatres & Performing Arts Centres Lyric houses, regional PACs, repertory venues. Long-cycle compliance, dark-week installs. Schools & Education Term-break windows, school-budget cycles, training programmes. Worship Venues Acoustic-sensitive spaces, AV-led production, multi-purpose halls. Stadiums, Convention Centres & Live Events Arena rigging, convention fit-outs, large-format event delivery. AV & Production Hire Companies Trade supply, cross-hire inventory, servicing and specialist support. Touring Productions Tour-ready packages, on-the-road servicing, certified gear. Film, TV & Studios Studio rigging, broadcast support, motion-controlled scenic. Museums & Galleries Permanent galleries, touring exhibitions, heritage recreations, display fabrication. Dance Studios & Companies Sprung floors, ballet barres and studio mirrors, made to the room. Corporate & Conference Venues Conference stages, auditorium AV, corporate event rigging and staging. Government & Civic Venues Council-owned PACs, civic centres, town halls and public venues.
Proof of work Recent Projects Lyric theatres, arenas, museums, schools and studios. The jobs behind the capability, and what we specified, built and signed off on each one.
A TSA technician in the workshop pointing to electric chain hoists hung for testing, with TSA road cases around him

Hoist Service - service and load test of electric chain hoists of any brand for venues, equipment owners and touring productions, delivered on site, in our workshop or in storage, with Test and Tag available as an add-on and an individual certificate per hoist

Compliance & Service · Hoist Service

Any brand of hoist. Serviced, certified. Load proven.

Service and load test of electric chain hoists for venues, equipment owners and touring productions - on site where the gear lives, in our workshop or in storage, on your schedule. Each hoist is serviced, function- and brake-tested, load-tested to a recorded figure and issued an individual certificate, typically valid for 12 months, with Test & Tag available as an add-on.

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Trusted on stages and in venues around Australia
HOTA Home of the Arts Canberra Theatre Centre Brisbane Powerhouse Ipswich Civic Centre Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Brisbane Showgrounds Arts Queensland WA Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries National Gallery of Victoria Griffith University Queensland University of Technology University of Melbourne University of Adelaide Logan City Council Mackay Regional Council Wollongong City Council Mueller College Anglican Church Grammar School Cairns Convention Centre Melbourne Olympic Park
What we service

Your hoists.
Serviced, tested, certified.

Scoped to the powered lifting kit you own and tour: electric chain hoists and the brakes, limits and control that keep them safe.

Electric chain hoists

Chain, gearbox, motor and clutch checked against the maker's limits.

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Brakes & limits

Functional and brake testing, upper and lower limit checks, E-stop response.

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Load test & certify

A calculated test load applied, held and recorded on the certificate.

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Test & Tag Optional add-on

In-service electrical testing to AS/NZS 3760, dated tag fitted to each hoist tested.

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Load-tested without the test mass

Purpose-built inline test equipment, engineered in-house, applies and measures the calculated load through the rig. In most cases no test mass is needed, so there is less handling and a faster turnaround on site or in storage.

Bought from us or elsewhere, we service and certify either way. See the EXE Rise chain hoists we supply, or for the gear you already own.

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Hoist Service at a glance

The certificate, in one table.

What the certificate shows, the standards it is assessed against and who it is for.

CertificateOne per hoist, typically valid 12 months
ShowsRated capacity, load-test figures, standards assessed against
Load figuresMinimum required, maximum applied, held at
Main standardsAS 1418 and AS 2550, plus the other recognised standards that fit each motor
Test & Tag add-onAS/NZS 3760, dated tag fitted
Gear you own and moveThis page: service, load test and certificate
A venue's installed hoistsTypically recertified in place under annual inspections
What Hoist Service is

The load,
proven and recorded.

Hoist Service is the service and load test of electric chain hoists, any brand, for venues, equipment owners and touring productions, with electrical Test & Tag as an add-on. We come to the gear more often than not, or work in our workshop or in storage. TSA's Competent Inspection Officers carry it out in-house. Need the gear as well as the service? See the chain hoists we supply and stock.

Two electric chain hoists with green slings hang from a portable truss gantry on a black-box stage while three staff talk in the background.
Edith Cowan University Chain hoists on a portable truss gantry, set up for on-site load testing
What Hoist Service does for your gear

Four jobs, one certificate.

Use certified gear

Every hoist load-tested, with a current certificate, ready for the next show.

Service on your schedule

Service between seasons, in storage, not in a venue week.

Prove the load

A recorded test figure on a certificate - not a verbal "she's fine" the day before doors.

Service plus Test & Tag

Add Test & Tag and mechanical and electrical are done together, in one pass.

What you get

Serviced, tested,
and on a certificate.

Not a quick look-over. Each hoist is serviced, inspected and tested in a set sequence, and walks away with an individual certificate you can hand to a venue, a producer or an insurer.

Service and inspectCleaned, lubricated, inspected: chain, gearbox, motor and clutch checked against the maker's limits.Service
Functional + brake/limit testUp and down under control, brake hold, limits and E-stop response proven.Tested
Calculated load test, held and recordedApplied and held through our inline test equipment (no test mass in most cases). Minimum required, maximum applied and held-at figures go on the certificate.Load test
AS/NZS 3760 Test & TagOptional add-on: in-service electrical test, dated tag fitted to each hoist.Add-on
Individual 12-month certificate, per hoistOne per item: serial, model, rated capacity and the load-test figures, valid 12 months.Certified
Standards each hoist was assessed againstAS 1418 and AS 2550, plus AS/NZS 3760 when Test & Tag is added, named on the certificate.Standards
Defects + recommendationsAnything beyond discard criteria, with the action: replace, repair or remove from service.Actions

One service pass, one certificate per hoist.

Have us come to the gear - most often we do - or send it to us: each hoist is serviced, function- and brake-tested and load-tested, with Test & Tag added where you need it, then certified for 12 months. Tour on the proof, not a hunch.

Or see the chain hoists we supply

A one-off service proves the gear for the next run. An ongoing programme repeats the service, load test and any Test & Tag add-on every 12 months, so certificates never lapse mid-tour. Run a fixed venue instead? Start with a Venue Systems Health Check.

A chain hoist and chain bag hang from box truss above the red seating of an arena.
In the venue

Each hoist is serviced, inspected and tested in a set sequence.

Arena rig A chain hoist and chain bag hanging from box truss over arena seating

Australia wide

Serviced and certified Australia wide.

In-house Competent Inspection Officers service and load-test each hoist and keep every certificate current.

An EXE Rise 1000 kg chain hoist close up in the Cairns Convention Centre rig
Hoist array Cairns Convention Centre
A hand patching cables into a labelled control rack case
Control rack patched and labelled
In the wings

Cairns Convention Centre.

A venue's owned chain-hoist array serviced, load-tested and Test & Tagged, with a certificate issued per motor.

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Serviced across Australia

From one motor
to a tour package.

The same service method scales from a single chain hoist to a full touring package - serviced, load-tested, Test & Tagged and certified, every time.

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Take the detail with you

Two documents,
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FAQ

Questions
about Hoist Service.

If your question isn't here, call us or send your hoist detail - we will come back with the right answer for your gear.

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Venues, equipment owners and touring productions: anyone who owns chain hoists and needs them serviced, load-tested and certified. A venue's fixed hoists are typically recertified in place under annual inspections. Everything else comes to us, or we come to it.
Service - including lubrication of the load chain - functional and brake testing, a recorded load test and an individual certificate for each hoist, with electrical Test & Tag to AS/NZS 3760 available as an add-on.
All of them. If it is an electric chain hoist, we can service, load-test and certify it, whether or not it came from us. TSA specialises in entertainment hoisting and knows the core motor brands and models used across the industry.
We apply a calculated test load through our purpose-built inline test equipment - no test mass needed in most cases - hold and record it, and the certificate shows the minimum required, maximum applied and held-at figures alongside the rated capacity and standards.
Yes - and more often than not we come to the gear, servicing it on site where it lives or is stored. It can also be freighted to our workshop, on your timeline.
Certified, on your schedule

Rig on the
proof.

Tell us about your hoists and your dates. We service and load-test each one, add Test & Tag where you need it, and keep every certificate current, Australia wide.

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  • We talk. Your hoists and your dates.
  • We test. Service and load test, Test & Tag where you need it.
  • We certify. A certificate per hoist, kept current.
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