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.
EXE chain hoist and crew in hi-vis during an arena load-in, with truss and hoist lines rising behind

Hoist and Rigging Equipment Hire - stocked chain hoists, Atlas controllers, trussing, slings and load cells, hired on your show calendar

Hire & Touring · Hoist & rigging hire

Rigging hire, run by riggers.

Rigging equipment hire from the same workshop that sells, installs and certifies this kit nationally: stocked chain hoists across the common theatre capacities, Atlas hoist controllers, trussing, slings, shackles and load cells. Every unit ships with a current test tag.

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Trusted on stages and in venues around Australia
Alder Construction Anglican Church Grammar School Annie Apollo Property Group Arts Queensland Back to the Future Beetlejuice Brisbane Powerhouse Brisbane Showgrounds Built Cairns Convention Centre Canberra Theatre Centre Capricorn Rigging Crossroads Live Crown Resorts Disney Diversified Edith Cowan University Encore Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Griffith University Hamilton HOTA Home of the Arts Ipswich Civic Centre Lendlease The Lion King Livingstone Christian College Logan City Council Mackay Regional Council Melbourne Olympic Park Michael Cassel Group Microhire MJ The Musical Moulin Rouge Mueller College Multiplex National Gallery of Victoria Queensland University of Technology Res-X Universal Studios University of Adelaide University of Melbourne WA Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries Wicked Wollongong City Council
Where this starts

Send the dates.
We do the rest.

Three ways a hire starts. All of them end the same way: rated kit with current test tags, palletised to your dock, collected after the run.

01

Start from a kit list

Your rigger knows the count. Send hoists, controllers and hardware with the dates and we check the fleet.

02

Start from the venue and the load

Send what has to fly and where. We confirm what suits from stock when we check your dates.

03

Start with our crew alongside

Hire it crewed: our riggers install, operate and pack down, with load calculations and complex load-ins scoped in.

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Inspections per hire, out and back in
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Of hire hoists double-braked, D8 Plus
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Stocked and supported in Australia
What hoist & rigging hire is

A hire fleet that runs
off a rigging workshop.

Hoist and rigging hire from TSA is rated lifting kit on a calendar: chain hoists, Atlas hoist controllers, trussing, slings, shackles and load cells. Every hire hoist is double-braked and D8 Plus rated, inspected before it ships and again when it comes back.

  • Run by the team that sells, installs and certifies it
  • Test tag and service history in the case
  • Riggers who answer load questions

Staying on? Buy the same kit: Chain Hoists, Atlas Hoist Controllers.

D8 Plus rated fleet Double-braked every hoist Test tags current, in the case Freight Australia wide Dry hire default - crew as a paid extra Weekly rates, day by arrangement
Rows of EXE chain hoists hung on load chain across a show grid.
Hoists on a grid EXE hoists hung in rows, ready to fly

Dry hire

The default
  • Your riggers take it from the dock
  • Weekly rates, day by arrangement
  • Minimum one week

With our crew

Paid extra, on request
  • We install, operate and pack down
  • Load calculations and complex load-ins
Where hire earns its keep

Four jobs, one fleet.

More motors than the house owns

Most venues carry enough rigging for the everyday, not the one big week.

A roof where there is not one

Convention floors and flat halls have no fly system to borrow.

Cross-hire between jobs

AV and production hire companies cross-hire from TSA when their own stock is out working.

Numbers that need checking

Some jobs need more than kit on a pallet.

How hire runs

Five steps, every hire.

The same discipline whether it is two hoists for a school production or a full arena package: checked out of the fleet, checked back in, with the paperwork in the case.

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  1. Step 01

    Availability check

    Send bump-in and bump-out dates and what you are after. Stock is checked across the national fleet and an answer comes back inside the working day.

  2. Step 02

    Pick & prep

    Kit is picked and inspected before it ships. Every hoist leaves double-braked, D8 Plus rated and carrying a current test tag.

  3. Step 03

    Ship national

    Palletised and freighted to your dock, Australia wide, with the freight booked by us around your load-in window.

  4. Step 04

    Run support

    A number that answers while the show is on. Assistance, callouts and on-the-road service are available on request for the life of the hire.

  5. Step 05

    Collect & inspect back in

    Return freight is booked and the kit is inspected back into the fleet - which is exactly why what ships to the next customer arrives right.

Hoist and rigging hire is the calendar lens over TSA's Lifting & Rigging range - the same fleet we sell, install and certify. Buying instead of hiring? Start with Chain Hoists, Atlas Hoist Controllers or the wider Lifting & Rigging range.

Australia wide

Freighted to your dock. Australia wide.

Palletised, with the freight booked by us around your load-in window.

Crew in hi-vis move cases and truss on an arena floor under a dense rig of hoist lines and a large video screen.
On the job

Rated lifting kit on a calendar.

Arena load-in hoists, truss and crew on the floor during a bump-in
EXE Rise 1000 kg chain hoist in the Cairns Convention Centre hoist array
Cairns Convention Centre EXE Rise hoist array
Raynok touchscreen controller operated by a TSA technician
Raynok control commissioned on site
On a real job

Cairns Convention Centre: 36 hoists, one ceiling.

TSA designed, installed and commissioned a 36-axis EXE Rise hoist array, 42 m of five-chord box truss and Raynok control.

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Proof at rated load

The same kit,
on real jobs.

The kit in the hire fleet is the kit TSA installs and certifies at scale - specified, supplied and kept show-ready.

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Lock it in

Ready when your dates are.

01

Request availability for these dates

Send bump-in and bump-out and what you are after. Stock is checked across the national fleet and an answer comes back inside the working day.

Check the fleet

Mid-run and something needs eyes? On-the-road service backs every hire nationally. Test-tag credibility comes from the same team that runs annual inspections and recertification.

FAQ

Questions
about rigging hire.

If your question is not here, send your dates and kit list and we answer it with the availability check.

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Stocked chain hoists across the common theatre capacities, Atlas hoist controllers, trussing, performer flying rigs, Electro Kabuki drop systems, slings, shackles and load cells - the same rated kit we sell, install and service nationally. Every hire hoist is double-braked and D8 Plus rated. Send your dates and kit list and we confirm availability from the fleet.
Yes, on request. Production rigging assistance is available for load calculations and complex load-ins - tell us what the venue and the show need when you send your dates, and we scope the support with the kit. You get a rigging workshop behind the hire, not a counter.
Yes. Every hoist is inspected before it ships and inspected again when it returns, and it travels with a current test tag. Rated-gear paperwork is included, so the documentation your venue or insurer asks for arrives with the kit.
The fleet covers the capacities working theatre and event rigs commonly call for. Send the loads you need to move - or the venue and the show - and we confirm what suits from stock when we check your dates.
Yes. The kit ships palletised, Australia wide, with the freight booked by us around your load-in window - we ship Friday for your Monday load-in. Collection is booked the same way after the run.
Lock in the dates

Rated kit,
on your dates.

Send the bump-in and bump-out dates and the kit list if you have one. We check the national fleet and come back inside the working day - with the paperwork your venue will ask for.

Request availability for these dates → Read a project story →
  • We talk. Bump-in and bump-out dates, and the kit list if you have one.
  • We check. The national fleet, with an answer inside the working day.
  • We ship. Freight booked by us around your load-in window.
Or call 1300 439 872 [email protected]