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Consultancy

Expert Consultancy for Rail Compliance, Competence & Training Solutions

Services in rail to support your business

We have access to a range of consultants to supplement our offering of services. these include, but not limited to

  • Health & Safety Training
    • e.g First Aid
    • Manual Handling
    • IOSH courses
  • Health & safety Services – investigation – ISO45000
    • Audits
  • Operations Training and Assessment
    • including driver on depot
    • Shunter
    • Safety Critical Comms
  • Engineering Support
    • Design support
    • Audit
    • Techncial Authoring

and more, contact us to find out more…

Training Design & Delivery

We have off the shelf solutions for skills and can design individual programs for your business needs

Bespoke Design Service

Delivering technical training courses is a key business feature of RCC, so please ask for your needs and we will work with you to facilitate your development needs.

RCC will scope out your requirements, listening to your thoughts and mapping them against any industry requirements such as safety critical, and competence management needs. We can research the topics with detailed Task and Risk Analysis, that will determine the factors of your competence standards.

The standards will derive the performance and knowledge elements that you must have in place. typically we would look to create a bespoke assessment that meets the needs of the standard just created. Once we have the flow of this, we can understand the workforce to determine the most beneficial method of delivery and design the training element of the program. This will include lesson plans and session plans for trainers to follow up and in most cases an underpinning knowledge test to ensure all delegates who have attended have taken on board the required elements.

this, will in most cases, not be wholly in the classroom, it will employ practical methods and demonstrations with instructor led practice to enhance the experience as much as possible in a safe and friendly environment.

Railway industry standards may play a part in your requirements and these will be considered when discussions are taking place, to ensure they are built in where required.

Assessment Systems & Services

Bespoke design and delivery of an assessment system for safety critical work in the rail industry

Assessment Systems

Any assessment system has to be effective and “do what is says” i.e. it must satisfy the requirements it set out to do. So many assessment are too complex and wordy with the inference on signing for everything on every page and trying to align it to a National Occupational Standard, and most of the time failing in this basic area.

Assessment are either safety critical, or not. They are mainly part of a competency management system which has been designed to achieve a goal. The goal is keeping people safe, and running safe trains on the national network. There are occasions where assessments do neither.

The starting point is to look at the risks of the business and the individuals to ensure all risks to activities are calculated, subsequent measures are then put in place to ensure this is eliminated or reduced as far as reasonably practicable. Putting in a detailed Competency management systems (CMS) to govern the assessment process is part of the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) principles of developing and maintaining staff competence. The base where RCC works from,

RCC can help design a bespoke system for you….. OR

RCC can review your current system to see its efficacy and ensure it meets the base requirements

These systems are not just for Freight Operating Companies (FOC) or Train Operating Companies (TOC) but also

  • Supply Chain
  • Plant Maintainers (RRV and OTM)
  • Plant Operatives

Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Practice

IQA, is a level above assessors and ensures consistently of delivery in assessments across many assessors, sites and qualifications. RCC can help design and deliver a working process to deliver quality assessments and delivery of training.

Internal Quality Assurance (IQA)

Internal Quality Assurance is a training and assessment process that assures the quality of training delivery and assessment practice across several areas. This mandates consistency of approach and standardises the delivery of training and assessments.

Benchmarking these activities is a major step in delivering your Competence Management Systems (CMS), without CMS, you have no benchmark as to the consistent approach taken by individuals running the training and assessment activities.

Standardising and documenting the standardisation process enables external people to see that you have all these matters under control, and Management have the information to make informed decisions for the benefit of the business for future profitability.

Competence Management Systems

RCC can design e bespoke CMS that will support your business and ensure it is prepared for audits and future workloads, compliant with ORR Principles.

Competence Management Systems (CMS)

A good CMS can improve your safety records and ensure you not only pass your audits, it will demonstrate that you have properly taken your risk management and activities into account and ensured the industry that you have mitigated and controlled the risks
It should fit in to your existing systems for selection and recruitment, Audit, review and business processes seamlessly.

RCC can help you to review what you currently have, or are thinking of, or can assist from the inception of the system to ensure you have covered all eventualities.

We have extensive industry experience in developing and delivering these CMS’s for rail business’s with great success.

Competence is usually overlooked or over thought, and becomes very complicated unless you know what you’re trying to achieve. This is where RCC can help and make this process as simple as possible

Trainer and Assessor Qualification Delivery

Delivering Trainers and Assessors in your workplace

Trainer / Assessor Qualifications

We can support your training teams with trainer qualifications and assessor qualifications to national standards. Being recognised as a professional Level 3 Trainer or assessor is the credibility to achieve your audit results within the rail industry.

We can support the initial trainer qualifications delivery – We can support the assessor qualification delivery

These courses will be supported by associates of RCC ltd that have industry experience in the rail environment, nut also have extensive knowledge in delivering the trainer and assessor awards.

Trainer awards are quite straight forward, starting with the Award in Education and Training (AET) which needs approx. 39 hours of input by each candidate.

The assessor qualification will need around 40 hours of tuition and research by the candidate led by an tutor, however the practical element will need company support to deliver and must be mentored and countersigned to follow the qualification guidelines.

RCC could support you setting up your own training team.

Training Function Management

Would you like to have a training department, but you find it is not cost efficient?
Do you need to provide training services to your staff but don’t have the management capacity?
Do you need the administration function for record keeping and record management systems update?

If this is you, or you would like to know more, read on…

Remote Training Management

  • Administration We can administer your training for you, with joining instructions and follow ups, record keeping and general administration of a training function.
  • Document review We can review your current document to ensure they are fit for purpose, and suggest improvements for you to review. f you don’t have the training function set up, and you need it to comply with audits, and your customer specifications, we can set these up for you.
  • The Professional face of Training We can store, manage or administer your staff training records, making sure they are filed and stored electronically on your system, ready for when you need them.
  • Audit attendance We can attend your audits to fulfil the training elements of your client audits, making sure you comply and come out on top.
  • Record management We can store, manage or administer your staff training records, making sure they are filed and stored electronically on your system, ready for when you need them.

RCC can manage your training management function for you.

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Testimonials

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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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