TRAINING & SKILLS
together to support SkillsID
Rail industry comes
NSARE got enthusiastic support for its new SkillsID database for railway workers at a busy launch event in London. Adam Hewitt reports.
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enior fi gures representing Network Rail, Transport for London, Crossrail, rail contractors, rolling stock manufacturers and the professional engineering institutions have all endorsed the new SkillsID system.
The system, developed and run by NSARE (the National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering), was launched on March 7 in London at an event attended by nearly 200 people, including RTM.
A verifi ed record
SkillsID will keep a verifi ed record of individuals’ qualifi cations, competences and skills, and be fully portable from one employer to the next. NSARE said it would be a radical, positive change for the industry and its chief executive, Gil Howarth, said: “This is about our contribution to the future of the railways.”
Jack Pendle, engineering director at VolkerRail, which has been running a pilot of the scheme, strongly backed it, calling it easy to navigate, user-friendly and clear. He said: “This is something I really believe in”.
He said the support from the NSARE team all the way through had been “invaluable” and told
the audience how keen his company had been to back NSARE right from the beginning.
Each individuals’ record on SkillsID will include personal details like name, address and year of birth – which will also help in skills forecasting projects, since it can be used to determine likely retirement dates – and, as a unique identifi er, their national insurance number. It shows their PTS expiry date, if they have one, and who delivered it. At its core, however, is a full list of all relevant qualifi cations, skills and competences, accessible by the individual and their sponsor/ employer, but hidden to others. Only ‘trusted organisations’ will be able to input data.
Integration with Sentinel
Network Rail – which is strongly endorsing the system – is planning to integrate it with the new version of its Sentinel scheme, being delivered by Mitie (more on page 172), and allow employers to be able to have a single data input. NSARE will then be responsible for transferring information from SkillsID to Sentinel, TfL’s LUCAS, and similar systems at
the TOCs and Crossrail.
Richard Elliot of Network Rail (pictured below with Elaine Clark) is leading on the Sentinel change programme on behalf of Gareth Llewellyn, executive director of safety and sustainable development at Network Rail.
He spoke at the SkillsID launch event both to endorse the new system, and to explain how it will fi t in with the upgraded Sentinel scheme, which is being rolled out this year – at Saltley, Perth and Carlisle from June, followed
Above: Gil Howarth
by a full Network Rail roll-out, followed by the supply chain.
The Network Rail view
Network Rail said: “Network Rail actively supports SkillsID. Sentinel will provide the passport for working on and around our infrastructure safely. SkillsID will provide the whole industry with vital information to meet the challenges of the future. Used together, they will deliver huge and ongoing benefi t to the industry.”
30 | rail technology magazine Apr/May 13
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