3 Day 'Rigging for the Entertainment Industry' Course

The internationally renowned course that has been delivered at least 800 times since 1998, all over the world. 3 days of intensive practical rigging training on a purpose built steel structure.

In Association with Total Training

The course includes:

Legislation including risk assessment
LOLER 1998 and the Work at Height Regulations 2005
Principles of lifting
Safe systems of work
Work at height using Personal Fall Protection Systems
Pre-use checks to PFPS
Basic rigging and ropework, the ‘open basket’ and choke hitches
Marking out
Rigging motors with steels, roundslings, shackles, O rings, clutch chains and STAC
Using electric chain hoists
Using trusses correctly as simple spans and in a box configuration
Simple load calculations for slings and trusses
Terminating steel wire ropes
Secondary suspensions, theory and practice
Pre-use checks of lifting equipment

On completion candidates will have:

Course notes and additional printed information
A numbered certificate of attendance relating to the syllabus completed
A personal record of training
An appreciation of their legal duties
A basic knowledge of how to use equipment safely in slinging and entertainment industry lifting operations
An understanding of the principles of working at height using personal fall protection systems
We provide everything required except work clothes and footwear.

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Courses are priced at £750 + VAT and run over 3 consecutive days from 10am - 5pm at our premises in Birmingham

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Your booking is confirmed once payment is received and our invoice is settled, according to the stated terms.
If you haven’t paid 28 days before the course, your place will be offered to someone else.
Please only book firm dates; not honouring your booking blocks others from attending.
We do not make refunds on bookings cancelled within 28 days of the course dates you book.
Course fees do not include accommodation or meals.
We cannot take responsibility for cancellations caused by events outside our control and may postpone or cancel a course if necessary. This includes matters including, but not limited to - low enrolment, trainer illness, pandemic, strike action, severe weather or other unforeseen circumstances.
To ensure quality we limit the trainer to student ratio to 1:6 on this course.
Training helps support, but does not replace, your legal health and safety obligations.
Courses are delivered in English; translation support may be arranged with notice and for an additional fee.