Enabling organisations to lower business risk and reduce incident rates
RailSmart EDS is a competency management system designed to help railways maintain safe working practices and ensure all staff have the key skills required to fulfil their role.
Our railway 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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Product features of our competency management system
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
Free download
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’.

Some 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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