TRAINING

Our Track Safety Training Courses provide companies and individual contractors with the skills, knowledge and certification to ensure that rail works are carried out efficiently and safely as well as full compliance with Network Rail Standards.

Our Health and Safety qualifications have been created to assist businesses in complying with legal requirements by demonstrating that staff members have been trained in preventative approaches to hazards and in promoting a positive health and safety culture.

Our first aid training courses are a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical sessions that are designed to develop ability and most importantly practical confidence.

We provide a full range of track safety on-site railway workplace assessments that are an integral requirement for personal working on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure.

All courses are available online through our Learning Management System and gives the ability to monitor, manage and record training activity.

Whether for an individual wanting to gain better knowledge of mental health, or an employer looking at enroling employees on mental health awareness, first aid or management courses, we will support you to look after the mental health of you and your employees.

PLANNING

We can quickly provide a bespoke, dedicated and experienced workforce of the highest quality thus enabling maximum possession utilisation and project delivery within an agreed budget and time frame.

By forming a close collaborative partnership coupled with the fact that all of our staff have extensive route knowledge means reduced risks of any of your works being aborted.

This allows us to achieve maximum productivity and performance metrics to get the job done.

What we can deliver

  • Input Engineering Possessions applications into Network Rail's Possession Planning System (PPS)
  • Complete Railway Business Case and Access & Resource Planning Change Request Forms (ARPCR) for late requests.
  • Attend all Pre-Possession Planning Meetings up to and including the PICOP Briefing.
  • Plan Isolation's and book Engineering Trains.
  • Input Line Blockages to be published in the Weekly Operating Notice (WON) that require the stoppage of all trains onto the PPS.
  • Produce a Possession Plan and update clients weekly on the status of their work sites.
  • Complete all necessary possession documentation

 

Our full in-house SSOW planning facilities, enable our team of Network Rail Approved and holders of the Safe System of Work Planning Competency to plan your work to the highest of safety standards.

All our Planners have extensive route knowledge reducing dramatically the risk of any of your works being aborted.

What we can deliver

  • The input and management of line blockages to the Network Rail RailHub system
  • The input and management of worksites and published line blockages to the Network Rail possession planning system
  • SWP’s planned in accordance with Network Rail standard NR/L2/OHS/019 and the highest possible safe system is always achieved for maximum risk control
  • Planners with a combined experience of over 150 years
  • Excellent route and local knowledge
  • Short turnaround and planning timescales
  • SWP’s planned using industry leading software

 

Work package planning and documentation for the railways often differs from existing practices. Contractors working under a railway client will need to complete documentation that is specific to the railway environment, including all the relevant client-provided information and be in the format required by the client.

This often involves an intensive approval process before works are allowed to proceed. It is not uncommon for work package plans to take 5-10 days for approval involving 4 or 5 revisions of the existing documentation. Work package plans also have a limited lifespan before requiring an official review.

Supporting the work package plan will involve task-specific briefings covering all the works that a contractor plans to do throughout the phase of the project. Initial task briefings are often reviewed and amended to suit the changes to the work environment and a key to working safely.

We can help you navigate these requirements and ensure all documentation meets the strictest of standards.

What we can deliver

  • WPP’s and TBS planned using approved Network Rail templates
  • Planners with extensive knowledge of a wide range of disciplines
  • Dedicated planner meaning that there’s only one point of contact
  • Planners with a combined experience of over 150 years
  • Excellent route and local knowledge
  • Short turnaround time and planning timescales – based on other industry suppliers
  • Detailed knowledge in hazard identification and risk assessing ensuring control measures are relevant, applicable and achievable
  • Planners holding the minimum of Level 3 Health and Safety with further training on risk assessing

MEDICALS and D&A SCREENING

Our collection service includes qualified collection officers and sample analysis by a UKAS-accredited laboratory (if required), as required by the Railways Safety and Standards Board (RSSB). With a fast turnaround, a negative result is available the same day.

An evidential breath test will be conducted with a positive result being a value over 13μg of alcohol per 100ml of breath.

All results will be uploaded to the sentinel system.

What we test for

  • Amphetamines
  • Cannabis
  • MDMA (Ecstasy)
  • Opiates
  • Ketamine
  • Benzodiazepines
  • Cocaine
  • Methadone
  • Tramadol

What we can deliver

  • Pre-employment Screening
  • Pre-appointment Screening
  • Random Unannounced Screening
  • Post Incident Screening (Available 24/7)
  • On-Site Random Screening (Available throughout the UK)
  • Periodic Screening

Safety-Critical staff including Train Drivers, Guards, Conductors, Shunters, Signallers, Permanent Way workers and all other Safety Critical staff and their employers are subject to the Transport & Works Act which make it is criminal offence for employees to work under the influence of alcohol or drugs, additionally employers are bound by law to have procedures in place to prevent this from occurring.

Currently we have centres located in Bridlington and Goole or we can offer screening at a suitable venue of your choice including on-site.

 

Choose us for your unannounced drug and alcohol screening requirements. We can fully manage the service and ensure that you don't fall short of Network Rail's mandate on unannounced drug and alcohol testing on 20% of your primary sponsored staff.

A negative result is usually available the same day and all results are uploaded to sentinel. Our collection officers are trained to follow a rigorous chain of custody process. Ensuring that from the second the urine is voided from the body to the sample being screened, both your employee and the collection officer are happy that the sample hasn't been aludered and the sample, that's tamper evident sealed, is your employee's urine

An evidential breath specimen is also collected by a Home Office-type approved device.

Our solution

We have natiowide capability to test your staff on site, at your office or, whilst attending one of our training courses.

Our service offers you the option for us to randomly select your staff to be tested. This is the preffered option with Trade Unions, as the risk of an employee claining they have been unfairly or biasly chosen is greatly reduced.

Booking an unnanounced Drugs and Alcohol test whilst your employee is on one of our training courses is an ideal way to keep the process truely unnanounced.

All results will be uploaded to the sentinel system.

What we test for

  • Amphetamines
  • Cannabis
  • MDMA (Ecstasy)
  • Opiates
  • Ketamine
  • Benzodiazepines
  • Cocaine
  • Methadone
  • Tramadol

Safety-Critical staff including Train Drivers, Guards, Conductors, Shunters, Signallers, Permanent Way workers and all other Safety Critical staff and their employers are subject to the Transport & Works Act which make it is criminal offence for employees to work under the influence of alcohol or drugs, additionally employers are bound by law to have procedures in place to prevent this from occurring.

Currently we have centres located in Bridlington and Goole or we can offer screening at a suitable venue of your choice including on-site.

LABOUR

The railway industry no longer simply requires recruitment agencies to supply a labour force, the rail industry requires qualified and experienced staff to assess and resource the needs of individual clients on a project to project basis.

We offer dedicated industry specialists to resource and supply experienced personnel that match clients’ bespoke requirements to ensure the client and their project receive the attention and ongoing support that optimise ‘best practice’ working.

To ensure that we can supply the best operative for the task, all staff are vetted for skills, expertise and experience at the initial application stage, followed up by tightly controlled training and competency management procedures to ensure staff are working with the latest methodology and safe working practices.

Through a vigorous induction process, we promote a positive Health and Safety culture ensuring all staff, other contractors and members of the public are not at risk from the dangers associated with the railway industry.

What we can deliver

  • Full UK nationwide coverage
  • Disciplines include Lookouts/Site wardens, Controller of Site Safety (COSS), Protection Controllers (PC), Engineering Supervisors (ES), Safe Work Leaders (SWL), Auxiliary operating Duties, Level Crossing Attendants, Points Operators and Hand signalmen AOD (LXA, PO, HS), Possession Support (PS), Person in Charge of Possession (PICOP) and protection staff for line blockages
  • Strategically located ‘home bases’ with staff with an average travel time of 1 hour to the site
  • Excellent training and mentoring of staff
  • Short notice requests
  • Efficient planning, inception and turnaround time
  • 24 hr on-call manager to manage any issues
  • Competitively priced
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