Abstract: A portable ladder platform attachment, for increasing a person's safety when standing on a ladder, includes a platform having a surface, a forward edge, a rear edge, and opposing side edges, and a rod having a serpentine shape confined within a vertical plane above a centerline extending between the forward and rear edges of the platform. The rod has a first end coupled to the platform closer to the forward edge than to the rear edge, a midsection that extends above and substantially parallel to the surface of the platform along the centerline, and a second end shaped as a hook sized to fit closely about an upper rung of the ladder while the platform sits on a lower rung of the ladder.