Skills Assessment Scheme
Network Rail's Competence Management System
The Scheme is Network Rail's competence management system. It is the way we gain, maintain, assure and renew our competence.
The Skills Assessment Scheme is made up of six risk-based Regimes which cover a range of competencies from Particularly High Risk (Regime 1) to Lowest Risk (Regime 6).
All regimes follow the same 4 steps:
1. Inital Training
Followed by successful completion of knowledge and practical assessment and/or action learning.
2. Action Learning
A process designed to embed training principles into the working environment and enable the individual to put into practice what they have learnt to demonstrate competence.
Download the Action Learning fact sheet
3. Annual Capability Conversation (ACC)
This is a mandatory component of the Skills Assessment Scheme. A key objective is to promote a genuine discussion with individuals about the competence.
Download the Annual Capability Conversion fact sheet
4. Renewal
Renewing a competence, depending on which Regime the competence falls in and the Risk associated with it.
Download the Competence Renewal fact sheet
Network Rail's Regime Fact Sheets
Download the fact sheets below to see the process of gaining a competence in each Regime and Who Does What at each stage.
- REGIME 1 (Particularly High Risk)
- REGIME 2 (Fairly High Risk)
- REGIME 3 (Medium Risk)
- REGIME 4 (Medium-Low Risk)
- REGIME 5 (Low Risk)
- REGIME 6 (Lowest Risk)
Followed by successful completion of knowledge and practical assessment and/or action learning.
Authority to Work Decision
It is the Line Manager's responsibility to make the decision to award the Authority to Work based on the result of the competence assessment.
Contact
Steven Azari, Project Manager
Steven.Azari@networkrail.co.uk
Page Updated:
January 2019