A proactive rail competency management system
Maintain safe working practices and reduce incident rates with RailSmart EDS, your comprehensive rail competency management system
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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 roles. Our rail competency management software simplifies the management of 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 the Employee Development System (EDS), which supports the continuous monitoring and improvement of your employees’ competencies. RailSmart EDS provides a robust driver competency management system, ensuring all train drivers meet the necessary standards. This system includes regular train driver assessments, offering a clear view of driver skills and areas for improvement.
Competency focused around interactions
Using RailSmart EDS, create multiple competency interactions including assessments, observations, classroom based training, eLearning and more. Utilise our advanced training and competency management software to provide continuous learning and development opportunities for your staff and ensure your employees’ skills are always up-to-date, contributing to overall operational success .
Complete visibility of employee competency
Rail competency management software provides a comprehensive and clear overview of your current competency position across the entire business. Everything in one convenient place, making rail inventory management more efficient.
Significant time saving and enhanced efficiency
Dramatically reduces the administrative burden of compliance compared to paper-based and competitor solutions with our competency management system software. Integrate RailSmart EDS seamlessly into your operations to enhance efficiency. This integration supports comprehensive rail competency management and helps improves overall performance across the railway network.
Unlock insights, drive action and empower your business with data analytics
EDS-Insights is an additional module which provides access to the data you need, offering a whole picture view of your team and wider organisation. Key competency data is interactive, intuitive, and flexible without the need for bespoke reports or raw data exports.
Discover EDS-InsightsNEW Criteria Groups Feature
The new criteria groups feature in RailSmart EDS allows system administrators to bring together assessment criteria from various units and elements. This enables administrators to create groups based on certain scenarios, situation or specific assessment types.
Assessors can add the criteria group to any assessment and tailor it as required, benefiting from a streamlined process, enabling quicker assessments with enhanced accuracy. Managers benefit from increased consistency in assessments, gaining valuable insights into staff skills to address deficiencies, strengthen their workforce, and elevate industry standards.
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 cycle 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 operational incidents.
Medical management
A GDPR compliant solution for managing employee work-related medical examinations and recording results.
Employee support plans
Support and develop employees’ competencies with tailored proactive and reactive support plans to 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 with planned interactions electronically, using the EDS mobile application.
Interaction planner
View upcoming employee assessments and other interactions.
Analyse
Analyse staff and driver assessment data to gain insights into the overall competency of your workforce.
Verification and auditing
Verification tools to help promote standardisation, consistency and accuracy to competency management across your organisation.
Why use EDS for rail competency management?
- Complete visibility of your organisation’s current competency position
- Enables proactive management of business risk
- Helps 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
- Identifies training opportunities, including train driver assessments, ensuring staff have the required skills
More than 200,000 assessments performed against over 15,000 employees
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Additional module available for RailSmart EDS
Overview
Delivering intelligence from OTDR data
The OTDR module for RailSmart EDS provides near-real-time access to locomotive information. Built upon the RailSmart RCM solution, this module monitors, records and securely sends all data collected via the OTDR into the RailSmart platform in near real-time. It enables 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 provides access to all driver train regulation data 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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RailSmart EDS product feedbackSome of our customers
We are proud to work with passenger operators, freight operators and suppliers to the rail industry, large and small, from across the UK and beyond.
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RailSmart ORS has helped us improve the output of the team as well as the quality of the roster. We’re light-years ahead of where we were.
Oliver SchepisiDirector of Rail Operations
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Having the ability to use IFM in real, live situations, enables us to see how effective the system can be for our operations. The control team can use the system to capture the latest status and keep stakeholders updated. Utilising the actions and notifications functionality saves time, meaning the team is able to focus on managing and resolving situations safely and securely.
Catherine NugentHead of Rail Programme Delivery -
Davis Wagon Services Ltd have utilised the skills and expertise of 3Squared since 2017 as we progressed our transition into a digital era. Throughout the last six years, we have been fully supported and guided into which platform is relevant, and where gaps were identified, 3Squared have been extremely proactive in ensuring that our needs have never been compromised. Our digital transition is recognised as a perpetual journey of learning and understanding, and there is no better company we wish to have to support our business needs.
John HallManaging Director
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Partnering with 3Squared for our competency management solution EDS, gave us every confidence in choosing their newly released RailSmart Virtual Campus as our LMS. We are looking forward to accessing the comprehensive catalogue of pre-built courses from this robust and well acknowledged platform.
Adam YoudLearning & Development Manager
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As an organisation it is important to us that our suppliers are committed to helping us achieve our objectives and 3Squared have embraced this ethos, regularly joining our competency governance meetings and inviting us to their cross-industry User Group.
Melanie SewellSafety & Environment Programme Manager -
RailSmart EDS is extremely user friendly. It is simple to use, significantly reduces admin time for our assessors, which in turn enables us to be more productive as a Training and Competency Entity. It is widely used by other internal stakeholders who need a snapshot of competency in their area and they can navigate and pull information from the system with ease.
Daniel MillerHead of Training & Competence UK -
Our industry is highly regulated and RailSmart EDS has enabled us to demonstrate assurance with the Health and Safety Executive. Our safety certificate gives us a license to operate trains and our safety authorisation gives us a license to operate stations. I’m not sure how we would have done it without RailSmart EDS, probably lots of emails and taking them up and down the route!
Simon ReadingDriver Team Manager -
Going paperless is definitely the way forward, improving the environment and our efficiencies. First and foremost, RailSmart EDS has improved our assessors time to plan and undertake in-depth technical and operational assessments whilst automatically updating and maintaining our records which is such game changer.
Stephen CatterallHead of Training & Competence -
We have been using RailSmart EDS for the last 6 or 7 years and it has made a significant change to our business. Bringing in an electronic system, means we have a better oversight of our competency management arrangement, allows us to work with teams and provides all records in front of us on screen.
Melanie SewellSafety & Environment Programme Manager
