Rhino Florida Gets Proactive Against Heat Exhaustion
Rhino Florida is facing up to a hot summer spent outdoors at stadiums in their home city of Orlando as well as further afield in Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa. In order to help theirs cope with the heat, Rhino FL has been distributing cooling towels to employees and so far has handed out a few hundred. Alongside that distribution program, RFL has been giving employees chin-strapped safety helmets (part of a nationwide effort) and so far they have given out several dozen as acknowledgements of safety consciousness as demonstrated by the recipients. RFL’s Assistant Director of Production Alex Moran told us the helmet distribution program is “creating a good buzz with the ones receiving them talking to other Rhino employees about it.” Well done to Alex and all at Rhino Florida. Keep the buzz building!
Rhino Northern California Sets Market Records
Rhino Northern California would like to thank everyone who participated in work between May 31st and June 16th, an exceptionally busy time for the area. These Rhinos successfully and safely assisted with a market-record number of different venues and performers, including a pop-up rave in front of San Francisco City Hall for 28,000 people, a two-day ODESZA marathon at the Greek Theater at UC Berkeley AND then at Frost Amphitheater at Stanford University, seen in the photo below. Meanwhile, the audio team was holding down the fort at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference. Keep up the good work, everyone, and thank you!
Rhino San Diego Sets Tour Record at Petco Park
Rhino San Diego pulled out all the stops for the Billy Joel & Sting date at Petco Park in April. A compressed-schedule steel build started at midnight on the 11th and the crew worked around the clock to have the stage, delay towers and FOH position built and ready for production to load in on the morning of the12th. On the back end of the effort, RSD set a tour record for having the stage, delays and FOH off of the Petco Park field in under 11 hours.
RSD’s Sr. Production Manager Aimée Kellerman was ably assisted in overseeing this blitz of activity by Marty Kellough, Operations Manager for RSD, and Jay Cilitto, Rhino Arizona’s Regional Director of Operations. (See Aimée, Jay and Marty in the photo below with Live Nation’s Pierre Rochman, second from left.)
In the aftermath of it all Aimée told us, “I just wanted to share how PROUD I am of the Rhino SD crew in coming together to make this show an amazing success!” Well said, Aimée, and well done, all, at Rhino San Diego!
Efforts to Standardize PPE Practices Paying Off
Rhino Texas Safety and Training Manager Israel Jimenez would like to give a shout-out to forklift operators Joe Nobles, Jason Conklin, Darius Peterson, and Joey Hernandez, seen left to right in the photo below. The four, collectively from our Texas and Louisiana offices, were in Dallas this month for the DreamHack convention at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center where Israel was also on duty that day.
You can see in the photo that, despite being from different Rhino markets, they were all on the same page when it came to meeting the PPE requirements for the day. This was much to Israel’s delight and stands as an excellent representation of our drive to further standardize professional practices across the country.
Well done to you, Joe, Jason, Darius and Joey, for taking ownership of your work and, in Israel’s words, “helping us make good on the hope for our many markets to yield one result – uniformly safe and professional job sites.”
Rhino Tucson Fabricates and Installs Climbing Safety Holds at Tucson Arena
Rhino Tucson fabricated and installed climbing holds on the diagonal beams in the Tucson Arena in June. These climbing holds will make it safer and easier for high riggers to reach the high steel in the building. It is expected that this will make rigging crews more efficient in hanging points with the result that load in times will be decreased.
Team members for this job are seen in the group photo in the collage above. Back row, left to right: Will Crary, Kevin Foreman, Keno Snyder, Brandon Ash, Vic Arvizu. Front row, left to right: Oscar Kennedy, Rich Stroehlein, Marina Redoblado, Clark Hoffman, Ruben Campos, Franky Arvayo.
Well done to Rhino Tucson’s Director of Operations Clark Hoffman and Regional Director of Rigging Keno Snyder and the team for taking this safety step forward. Future riggers who come to work in the Arena will all be singing your praises.
