New rigging apprenticeship trialled in UK

Six trainees joined riggers from some of the industry's biggest names at the Barclaycard Arena last month to put the Trailblazer rigging apprenticeship through its paces

News By IQ | 21 July 2016

A trainee rigger at the trial day on 29 June

Rigging experts from Blackout, UK Rigging, RTM Rigging, Production Services Ireland (PSI) and the NEC Group came together at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham late last month for a trial run of the UK’s new live event rigging apprenticeship.

The apprenticeship, developed by the National Rigging Advisory Group (NRAG) as part of the British government’s Trailblazer scheme to create three million new apprentices by 2020, is designed to plug a gap in the number of trainees created by increasing…

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