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Safety & Training - Leading the Way in Railway Maintenance

All staff are certified and competent to undertake the works using the correct plant and equipment

Training

All staff undergoes extensive training before being allowed to undertake works on the customer's infrastructure.

Necessary training and qualifications include:

  • PTS (Sentinel - Personal track safety)
  • Lookout
  • COSS (Controller Of Site Safety)
  • Passport to Safety (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board)
  • Bespoke PES induction
  • First Aid - Appointed person
  • Abrasive wheels
  • Hydraulic excavator
  • Manual handling
  • Plant and machinery including hand tools

 All staff are encouraged to engage in a Continued Professional Development programme with professional bodies and university.

Health & Safety

Where possible all staff work within a 'safeguarded area' (Green Zone) under a COSS. All staff are certified and competent to undertake the works using the correct plant and equipment.

All plant and equipment is in good working condition and will be checked before any works. All infrastructure is returned in a safe condition fit for the passage of rolling stock.

Staff has regular assessments and appraisals to gauge abilities and attitudes.

All works include up-to-date risk assessments and method statements and briefed to all staff before works commence.

COSS Briefing & 'Toolbox' Talks - At the start of Every Day

Confidence in Company Safety

  • Quarterly Safety Meetings
  • COSS Briefing & 'Toolbox' Talks prior to any works or at the start of Every Day
  • RISQS, Achilles Audited and Certified 'Every Year'
  • Independent, competent safety consultant contracted systems

Questions?

If you have any questions regarding personnel training, our health & safety procedures or our Continued Professional Development programme then please don't hesitate to call us on 01773 763 508 or get in touch via our contact page.

What our Clients Say about us:

Just a quick email to thank you and your team for the excellent work you have delivered on our site over the past 24 hrs. It is a pleasure to work with a contractor that is so responsive and well aligned with the needs of our business.
Please pass on my thanks to your workers who have toiled yesterday and in the rain today to ensure the No 4 traverser crossing point, the Crossrail Cabins rail crossing point and the K Shop rail flange clearance work are all being completed as promised. All achieved despite the very short notice of the requirements and other demands. Vic Hammond, Bombardier Transportation UK Ltd
After a number of years struggling to find reliable & cost effective support for Daventry International Railport, where some previous suppliers had neglected us as a "small" contract deeming it to be less important than their bigger clients, we awarded the maintenance contract to Pearson's. Warwick Asbury, Malcolm Rail