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Health & Safety Solutions for the Global Rail Industry

Elevate Your Organisation: Expert Health & Safety Solutions for the Global Rail Industry

Our Health & Safety Professional Team, have extensive experience in the Rail Sector, offering a suite of specialised training and consultancy services designed to optimise your organisation’s safety performance and regulatory compliance.

Key Services:

Tailored Training Programs: Customised training solutions to address your specific needs and regulatory requirements.

Comprehensive Risk Assessments: In-depth assessments to identify and mitigate potential hazards in the rail environment.

Expert Consultancy: Strategic guidance and support to enhance safety culture

Incident Investigation and Analysis: Thorough investigation and analysis of rail-related incidents to prevent future occurrences.

To explore how our expertise can benefit your high-calibre transport organisation, please contact us to schedule a consultation.

Health & Safety / First Aid Training

Health & Safety Training

We can offer Health & Safety courses for all disciplines of this area, please see the list below.

delivered by professional trainers at your location, or at premises in Crewe. Please get in touch for your enquiries.

Health & Safety Course Directory

Health & Safety Training

We can offer Health & Safety courses for all disciplines of this area, please see the list.

delivered by professional trainers at your location. Please get in touch for your enquiries.

  • Abrasive Wheels Safety
  • Accident Investigation and reporting (including RIDDOR)
  • Accident Investigation Technique
  • Banksman training – Lorry & Crane
  • Behavioural Safety Awareness
  • Control of Substances Hazardous to health (COSHH)
  • Construction design management regs (CDM 2015)
  • Control of Contractors
  • Driver CPC Periodic and ASD
  • Fire Marshalls
  • Risk Assessment
  • IOSH Accredited Leading, Managing & working Safely
  • LOLER & PUWER regs
  • Machine Guarding
  • Managing Confined Spaces
  • Managing Vehicle safety in the Workplace
  • Managing Office safety
  • Managing Working at height
  • Ofqual – regulated manual Handling
  • Ofqual – regulated First Aid – Emergency / Full / Refresher
  • Ofqual  – regulated Safeguarding
  • Ofqual – regulated Mental Health First Aid
  • Ofqual – regulated Health & safety in the workplace
  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • Forklift truck training
  • Qualitative face Fitment training
  • Safety Induction for managers and Supervisors
  • Toolbox talks
  • Workshop Equipment training

Health & Safety training courses

IOSH Managing Safely – 3 days

Our IOSH ‘Managing Safely’ course empowers line managers with vital knowledge and practical tools to identify, assess, and control risks within their departments. It’s not just about compliance — it’s about protecting your team and ensuring peace of mind at work.

Upon successful completion, you’ll earn an internationally recognised certificate and lay the foundation for a rewarding career in Health and Safety. Join the course today and become a proactive champion for safety in your organisation.

Introducing RIDDOR 2013 – 1 day

Short course on the Reporting of Incidents, Diseases & Dangerous occurrences regulations. An insight into what is required to understand the legal responsibilities that employers have under RIDDOR. Know which injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences must be reported under RIDDOR. Understand how to report an injury, disease or dangerous occurrence. Have knowledge of what records need keeping and how they should be kept.

PUWER / LOLER Principles & Practices – 1 day

This PUWER & LOLER Training course will explain how to maintain a level of safety while using work equipment. Understand the responsibilities under the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER). Regulations and Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER).

Manual Handling Principles & Practices – 1 day

Injuries caused by manual handling are responsible for a significant number of accidents and lost working time in workplaces. This course provides information, advice and general techniques for safe manual handling. The Session covers:

  • Defining manual handling
  • Understand the dangers of hazardous manual handling
  • Knowing how to avoid hazardous manual handling
  • Learning good manual handling technique
  • Adapting this technique to the types of handling carried out at work

Manual Handling Train the Trainer – 3 days

An addition to the Manual Handling Principles and Practices Course, but with added information to give confidence to trainers looking to deliver their own manual handling courses.

Risk Assessment principles & Practice – 1 day

This 1-day course provides an overview of management of work practices, and looks into the practice and principles of Risk Assessments and how to undertake an objective assessment.

Risk Management in the Workplace – 1 day

An addition to the Manual Handling Principles & Practices course, but with added information to give confidence to trainers looking to deliver their own manual handling courses.

COSHH Awareness – 1/2 day

This 1/2 day course provides an overview of the Management of Work practices and looks into the practice and principles of Risk Assessments and how to undertake an objective assessment.

COSHH Risk Assessor training – 1 day

This course gives detailed and practical training on carrying out COSHH assessments and putting the assessment into practice, to control substances hazardous to health. Many people tasked with COSHH assessments are unsure what is required or where to get information.

Fire Awareness – 1/2 day

The training programme will introduce you to fire signage, as well as explain how to use different extinguishers for different types of fires. It also covers the required steps to a safe evacuation, and what you should do in emergency situations.

Fire Safety Marshall – 1/2 day

The course will educate you about what your legal duties are, will provide you with an understanding of fire, familiarise you with fire hazards and fire safety arrangements, and detail what your emergency evacuation procedures should entail.

Control Of Noise at Work – 1/2 day

You will learn about safe levels of noise exposure, and various strategies to reduce exposure to regular loud noises or even sudden extreme noise. This training programme will also help you to recognise the early warning signs of hearing loss, to prevent permanent undesired consequences.

Control of Vibration at Work – 1/2 day

This course will review the risks from hand-arm vibration exposure and introduce you to the requirements of the current regulations. It will provide practical advice and examples of how to carry out assessments of vibration risks, how to develop vibration control action plans, providing information instruction and training and how health surveillance contributes to the control action plan.

Management Systems (Plan Do Check Act) – 1 day

Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) is a step by step process management method used for the continuous improvement of products and processes. It is a useful skill for problem-solving and critical thinking.

Site Inspection Principle and Practices – 1 day

Introduction to incident Investigation – 2 days

The Introduction to Incident Investigation course covers the following topics:

  • Moral, legal and financial arguments for investigations
  • Human and organisational factors that can contribute to an incident
  • The process for investigating incidents
  • Positive interview strategies and the barriers to successful interviews

Root Cause Analysis – 2 days

Root Cause Analysis is a systematic problem-solving technique which mainly focuses on finding the ‘root causes’ of a problem or event.

The Root Cause Analysis approach is used for maintaining quality and solving problems. This makes it ideal to use with various other approaches such as Six Sigma, Lean and Kaizen. Root Cause Analysis course training provides a detailed look at RCA methodology that needs to be effective.

Asbestos Awareness – 1/2 day

Information, instruction and training for asbestos awareness is intended to give workers and supervisors the information they need to avoid work that may disturb asbestos during any normal work which could disturb the fabric of a building, or other items which might contain asbestos.

Accident & Incident Investigation – 1 day

Recognise the difference between accidents and incidents. Understand accident causation theory, including the stages of accidents: immediate causes, underlying causes, root causes. Appreciate how human factors effect accidents.

Emergency First Aid (6 hours) – 1 day

Essentially, the 3 Ps are first aid training’s main objectives: preserving life, preventing injury from getting worse, and aiding recovery. Extended objectives include relieving pain and protecting the unconscious.

First Aid At Work – 3 days

A first aid training course prepares you to deal with a range of medical emergencies, from common injuries such as cuts, scrapes, and burns to major injuries such as trauma to the head and cardiac arrest.

Anaphylaxis First Aid – 1/2 day

You will learn how to prevent, recognise, and treat severe allergic reactions, including the use of auto-injectors and CPR. Topics covered: Adult, child, and baby resuscitation (CPR) Auto-injector.

Display Screen Equipment Regulations Risk Assessments – 1 day

Our in-depth Display Screen Equipment Training has been created by chartered health and safety experts and ergonomists. It helps employees understand how DSE can affect health, how to achieve and adopt good workstation posture, correctly set up an ergonomic workstation and the risks of using mobile devices.

Internal Auditors Workshop – 2 days

This course develops the necessary skills to assess and report on the conformance and implementation of processes based on management systems. You’ll learn how to initiate an audit, prepare and conduct audit activities, compile and distribute audit reports and complete follow-up activities.

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Polarteknik UK contacted David at Rail Competence and Compliance to assist with the overhaul and management of our competence management system.

David fully engaged with our business, understanding the needs and requirements of what the new competence management system would need to provide.

During this process we received continuous feedback about what our requirements and obligations were, and what the most cost effective and easiest to manage solutions were for the current size and capabilities of our business.

We also received guidance and advice on the best approach for our growth strategy and how we could develop our competence management system to grow with our business over the next 3-5 years.

All in all, David and RCC provided a straightforward, flexible and no nonsense approach to supporting our business, while offering expert advice and insights into the world of railway competence management.

We will continue to work with and build our relationship with the RCC team and look forward to continuing to receive a worry-free and industry leading competence management service.

Ashley Ward, Polarteknik UK
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