5 Day Course for: Level 1 Rigger's Certification

Please note that the below outline is just a quick brief layout. There is quite a lot
more details to each subject that will be gone over in the Class Room and Hands On.
Each evening there will be home work to prepare for the following day.

Monday

1. 9:00 am we start each morning.
Hand out Booklet - Go over Drug and Alcohol policy - Class Room

2. Over view of Rigging for Live Events and Installations - Class Room

3. All aspects of RIGSTAR Training book
"5 aspects of Rigging" - Class Room

4. 1:00 p.m. Lunch

5. Continuation of the Overview of Rigging - Class Room

6. OSHA / ANSI regulations - Class Room

7. Crosby Rigging Video - Class Room

9. 9:00 pm end of class day

Tuesday

1. 9:00 am
Check in - Review of Monday / Go over today's schedule

2. Rigging Hardware - Class Room

3. 1:00 p.m.Noon LUNCH

4. Rigging Hardware - Hands On

5. Steel cable Construction: Use of Crosby Clips,
Nico Press oval Sleeves and Flemish eye splice
Manufacture two steel cable slings and a polyster round sling. - Hands On.

6. Synthetic sling construction: Different fibers, round,
flat and K-Link slings, high tech fibers & slings. - Hands On

7. Load and Break testing slings that were made above. - Hands On.

8. 9:00 pm End of class day!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday

1. 9:00 am
Check in - Review of Tuesday / Go over today's schedule

2.Finishing Load and Break Testing of slings made on Tuesday - Hands On

3. Knots, Hitches and Slices - Class Room - Then Hands On.

4. 1:00 p.m. LUNCH

5. Continuation of Knots - Hands On.

6. 3:00 p.m. Electric chain Hoist: Disassemble and Reassemble - Hands On.

9:00 pm End of class day !!!

Thursday

1. 9:00 am
Check in - Review of Wednesday / Go over today's schedule

2. Finshing Electric chain hoist - Hands On.

3. Hoist Control System: Disect the complete workings of a manual hoist control system - Hands On

4. 1:00 P.M. Lunch

5. Trusses: Distribution of Loads, Strength of Trusses, Inspection and Hanging of Trusses - Class Room and Hands On

6. Math for Bolts, Tension-Shear-Bending: - Class Room if we have time. As an extra subject.

7. Mechanical Advange of Block & Tackle (Block & Fall) - Class Room and Video

9:00 pm End of the class day!!!

Friday

1. 9:00 am
Check in - Review of Thursday / Go over today's schedule

2. Mechanical Advantage of Block & Tackle (Block & Fall) - Hands On

3. Math for bridles, Tension, Horizontal and Vertical Forces. - Class Room

4. 1:00 p.m. LUNCH

5. Theatrical counterweight rigging components in a theater - Class Room

6, Fall Protection - Class Room along with video

7. Fall Protection and Rescue - Hands On

8. Ground Rigging Techiques - Hands On

9. Marking out points on floor / calculating bridles & tension on
cables and forces on I-Beams before hanging.
Use of lasers for rigging - Hands On

10. Hanging Rigging points points from open steel structure - Hands On

11. Theatrical grid overview : Bridles on theatrical grid, Dead hangs,
Loading C-channels, side loading C-channels, use of pipe and
square tubing to hang from. Hands On Hands on portion would be conducted on Sunday for the 7 day class.

12.""" TEST TIME """ Hands On Knots and Ground rigging procedures. Starting time around 9 - 11 p.m.

Hands on Test: The hands on test is timed to last 2 hours.

Written Test: The written portion of the test is timed to last 4.5 hours and is taken on line.
You could be allowed to take the written on line TEST when you get home instead of at our
facility.

11:00 pm or 1:00 a.m. Done for the day !!! It's Time to relax !!!
The Week Has Been Completed

Very often this day becomes the longest day of the course because of the testing and going
over the answers at the end.
Be prepared to possibley stay late.
We will stay as long as it takes. We do not want you to be rushed and make mistakes.
Do not plan on flying out on Friday for the 5 day course........

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Saturday and Sunday : are extended days for the Level 2 & 3 Certification course and it is all hands on ground rigging, high rigging open steel, Theatrical Grid rigging. It gives students extensive hands on practice every minute of the day without any class room. It's all in the training center conducting real life practice sessions to perform everything you have learned throughout the week. These 2 days gives you the time you may need so it will solidify the training you have gone through Monday to Friday, so performing rigging tasks will become second nature to you. If you are signed up for the 7 day Level 2 or 3 certification course you will not have to take your test on Friday.
Your test will be conducted on Sunday evening.

8 to 12 hours, starting at 11:00 am with a 1 hour lunch. We may also start at 9:00 a.m. depending.

Exercises scheduled:

Open Steel Rigging:

1. Formulating a rigging plot
2. Layout and marking rigging points on the ground
3. Dead hang using Bowline, Klien tool, and Carabineer
4. 2 leg bridle
5. 3 leg bridle
6. 4 leg bridle
7. 2 leg Diagonal bridle and knowing how to prevent a diagonal bridle from sliding inwards.
8. 2 leg High, Low bridle
9. Breast bridle
10. 2 leg High Low bridle running stage right to stage left crossing over a 2 leg bridle running Up stage to Down stage.
11. 2 leg H-bridle
12. Adjusting bridle leg lengths up on the steel.
13. Dead hang on a beam sloping downwards and preventing it from sliding.

Theater Grid Rigging:

1. Dead hang around 3" C-channel with open basket hitch
2. Dead hang around 2 = 3" C-channels with open basket hitch
3. Dead hang using closed basket hitch between 2 = 3" C-channels using pipe and after using square box beam.
4. Dead hang around one 12" main C-channel at the well.
5. Dead hang around two 12" main C-channels at the well.
6. Dead hang around two 12" main C-channels at the well, using an even open split basket hitch.
7. Dead hang using 3" channel as a breast.
8. 2 leg bridle between 2 main 12" C-channels under hung from theater grid.
9. 2 leg bridle above theater grid with a stinger going down between two 3" C-channels
10. Large basket hitch around top main I-beams from stage right to stage left to position a point between two 3" C-channels.
11. Adjusting bridle leg lengths up on the theater grid to get pin point accuracy.

Break before the hands on test on Sunday evening.

Hands On Test starting approximately: 9:00 p.m.

Hands on Test: The hands on test is timed to last 2 hours.

Written Test: The written portion of the test is timed to last 4.5 hours and is taken on line.
You could be allowed to take the written on line TEST when you get home instead of at our
facility.

Do not plan on flying out on Sunday for the 7 day course.

The course time schedule above may change based on the teacher's elaboration of a subject at the time as well as being
altered due to special needs for a student that would be more valuable to a student than other subjects on the list.

For more discriptive details on our rigging course subjects please do not hesitate in contact us by phone.