Is Your Window-Washing Crew Actually Trained? How to Tell Before They Hang

priority_high Why ‘experienced’ isn’t ‘trained’

Window washing looks routine right up until it isn’t — suspended work is among the least forgiving trades in construction, and South Florida’s towers put crews over the edge every week. OSHA requires rope-descent and suspended-scaffold workers to be trained by a qualified person — in the equipment, the descent system, the rescue plan, and the anchorages they tie to. Experience is not the same thing: a crew can have washed glass for a decade on habits that fail the standard. The tell is simple — ask for the paper. A legitimate crew produces dated training records naming the trainer instantly; a crew that gets defensive just answered your question.

fact_check Reading a training record

school Getting both sides current

We put buildings on the right side of both questions: certified crew training through an independent qualified trainer, and current PE-sealed anchor certification so the answer to a careful crew is a document, not a shrug.