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Developmental Competence for Light Rail at the UK Light Rail Conference
As the industry’s leading annual congress and exhibition, the UK Light Rail Conference taking place in Manchester on 23 and 24 July brings together over 250 tramway, light rail and metro professionals. AssessTech’s operations director Sally Brinkley is amongst the 55 speakers and panellists.
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AssessTech’s User Forums – What to Expect
The next AssessTech user forum will take place on 18 Sept in Woburn Conference Centre, London. We spoke to Naheem Manir of West Midland Trains to find out his thoughts on the forums.
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Southeastern Railway moved to electronic competence management
When paper-based assessments started to become highly inefficient and gaps started to appear in the assessment process, Southeastern Railway decided to adopt an electronic competence management process.
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Focus on safety at EU Light Rail Conference
The recent EU Light Rail Conference which took part in Brussels on 16th and 17th May attracted decision makers and industry influencers from across the light rail and tramway systems industry and one of the key themes discussed this year was the role of technology in safety management.
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EU Light Rail Conference 2019
Sally Brinkley is speaking at this year’s EU Light Rail Conference on Developmental Competence in Light Rail.
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Best Railway Technology and Training Consultancy 2019 AWARD
We are delighted to have been awarded the Best Railway Technology and Training Consultancy in the 2019 Transport Awards, organised by SME News.
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Behind the scenes… Training Team
The third in our Behind the Scenes blogs introduces you to the learning and development team at AssessTech who have the role of ensuring that Assessors, IQAs, Instructors, Trainers and Candidates are all up-to-date in their training and competence requirements.
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ACMS is Really Helping at Greater Anglia
Greater Anglia have reduced their competence assessment administration by 50% by switching to electronic competence.
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AssessTech Joins RSSB
AssessTech are really pleased to announce that we became members of the RSSB this week.
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Individuals at c2c take full control of their own learning
Individuals at c2c take full control of their own learningc2c, owned by Italian operator Trenitalia, were the pioneers of ACMS in 2010. As a business reliant on a paper based CMS, like most other TOCs at the time, the business struggled with challenges around...
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Behind the Scenes… Development Team
This is the second of our Behind the Scenes blogs and this month we introduce you to the developers who have the mammoth task of creating new pieces of software and new features to keep our customers happy, as well as fixing bugs and upgrading the software performance.
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Heathrow Express staff migration to GWR was a smooth process thanks to ACMS
The recent migration of train operations staff from Heathrow Express (HEx) to GWR caused a few issues. However, by using AssessTech’s ACMS platform the transition of staff competence records was a smooth process, maintaining all existing data sets and systems intact.
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Behind the scenes… Customer Services Team
Behind the scenes... Customer Services TeamFrom left to right, Will, James and BrockAt the heart of the AssessTech operation is the customer services team. These are the people who deal with front line customer queries, working closely with the development team on...
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AssesTech’s Round-up of 2018
ROUND-UP OF 2018 2018 has been a busy year for AssessTech. We’ve managed the electronic transfer of competence records from HEX to GWR to support employee migration, the adoption of competence management within light rail via Tram Operations Ltd, a stronger focus on...
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User Forum 2018
USER FORUM 2018 The Assesstech User Forum, held on the 19th September 2018 in central London, brought together a wide range of competence management experts to find out about new developments in AssessTech products, share experience and industry best practice, raise...
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Incident Recovery Kit – A Tabletop Simulation
The Incident Recovery Kit is an interaction tabletop simulation, played in the style of a board game. It’s been developed, By AssessTech, as a training aid for roles such as TOLO, SIO and RIC
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Developmental Competence Management
Developmental Competence Management What is it? And why is it important? Developmental Competence Management is all about putting the candidate front and centre of the process, focussing on their needs and encouraging them to own their own competence. But why do we...
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Fatigue and Fitness Management – Be Proactive!
Reduce Incidents and save time by being proactive about Fatigue and Fitness management.
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From Robots to Competence Management Systems…
Gabriel Stroud, a man well known as the team captain and weapon operator for his fighting robot ‘Tanshe’ on This is Fighting Robots, and Sabre Tooth on Robot Wars in the UK, is also the inspiration behind ACMS, AssessTech’s electronic competence management system…
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AssessTech User Forum: Date Announced
Our next User Forum is scheduled for Wednesday, 19th September 2019 in Central London. Contact us for an invitation…
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Rail Professional Article: Reducing Incidents through Competence Management
AssessTech’s ethos is that competence management lowers business risk and reduces incident rates through targeted training and development of people. One of their clients, Heathrow Express has done just that. They reduced incidents from 25 in a two year period to just 2, here’s how…
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