"The endorsement by venues of qualifications such as this will help to further improve competency and safety standards across the industry. The NRC is another step towards meeting the rigging industry's aspirations of consistently high levels of competence and safety," says Nicky Norman, senior production and technical manager, ACC Liverpool, home to BT Convention Centre and Echo Arena.
"I believe that the NRC is key to developing formal recognition of entertainment rigging as a discipline in its own right within our industry in the UK. We have our own internal assessments for rigging staff however external verification is extremely important to us, and the NRC does just that," says Paul Rowlands, rigging development manager NIA and LG Arena.
"All riggers and freelancers within the NEC rigging department have now achieved the National Rigging Certification (NRC), and we're very proud of that," reports Billy Sondh, NEC venue technical operations manager.
(Jim Evans)
