A proactive rail competency management system
Maintain safe working practices and reduce incident rates
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Rail safety and compliance solutions
RailSmart EDS is a competency management system designed to help the rail industry maintain safe working practices and ensure all staff have the key skills required to fulfil their role. Our rail training software takes the pain out of managing multiple competency cycles and keeps everything in one convenient place for easy access.
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Discover the main benefits of RailSmart EDS
A structured approach to competency assessments
Our competency management software includes EDS (Employee Development System) which supports the continuous monitoring and improvements of your employees’ competencies. Includes train driver assessments and more to make sure all staff are competent in their roles to reduce risk.
Complete visibility of employee competency
Rail competency management software for a comprehensive and clear overview of your current competency position across the whole business. Everything in one convenient place.
Significant time saving
Dramatically reduces the administrative burden of compliance compared to paper-based and competitor solutions.
RailSmart EDS features
Administer assessment cycles
Define and manage competency cycles, for the different roles within your organisation.
Manage performance criteria
Create performance criteria sets for each of your cycles and monitor them using our competency management system.
Define planned interactions
Define interactions as part of a competency cycle.
Employee incident management
Track and manage all of your operational incidents.
Medical management
A GDPR compliant solution for the management of employee work-related medical examinations and the recording of results.
Employee support plans
Support and develop employees’ competencies with tailored proactive and reactive support plans to easily improve railway training.
Skills and certificates
Track employee skills and manage skill renewals.
Training paths
Manage and track employees’ railway training.
Assessment module
Conduct assessments for train drivers and other staff along with further planned interactions electronically using the EDS mobile application.
Interaction planner
View your upcoming employee assessments and other interactions.
Analyse
Analyse staff and driver assessment data and gain an insight into the overall competency of your workforce.
Verification and auditing
Verification tools to help promote standardisation, consistency and accuracy to competency management across the whole organisation.
Why use EDS for rail competency management?
- Complete visibility of your organisation’s current competency position
- Enables the proactive management of business risk
- Helps to reduce operational incidents by focusing on your teams
- Reduces the administrative burden and cost of compliance
- Promotes and encourages regular contact time between employees and line managers
- Helps identify training opportunities on your railway and includes train driver assessments and more to make sure staff have the required skills
More than 200,000 assessments performed against over 15,000 employees
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Plan for success with our free guide on implementing competency management in your business.
Download our helpful planning document: ‘The Guide to a Successful EDS Implementation’.
Additional module available for RailSmart EDS
Overview
Delivering intelligence from OTDR data
Get near-real-time access to locomotive information with the OTDR module for RailSmart EDS. Built upon the RailSmart RCM solution which monitors, records and securely sends all data collected via the OTDR into the RailSmart platform in near real-time. Enabling the analysis of locomotive information leading up to and post-incident almost instantly, helping operators build a clear picture right from the outset. The OTDR module for RailSmart EDS provides access to all the driver train regulation data that is traditionally accessed via a loco site visit and offline download.
OTDR module benefits for competency management
- Near real time access to train regulation information.
- Replaces the traditional on-site manual data download.
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