Abstract: A breaking arrangement for elevating work platform includes a break body, a C-shaped receiving piece, a breaking unit, and a break released handle. The breaking arrangement allows only upward movement of the elevating work platform during normal operation, the construction workers can move downward after a break released handle is released. The breaking arrangement can further provided an emergency stop when failure occur in the main suspension cable or the winding machine, so that the elevating work platform would not slide down.