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Railway training, learning, competence and recruitment support for safety-critical organisations.

UKTDA helps rail organisations strengthen how they recruit, train, develop, evidence and assure safety-critical capability. We offer bespoke training, a dedicated LMS and Course Builder, a dedicated competence management system and structured recruitment support through RAT-BAT.

Bespoke training
TRAC-Learn LMS
TRAC-CMS
RAT-BAT recruitment support
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What we offer

Four clear ways UKTDA can support your organisation.

Our organisational offer is built around practical railway performance: how people are selected, trained, assessed, developed and evidenced in safety-critical environments. You can use a single service or combine them into a connected TRAC model.

Designed around your people, risk profile and operational needs

Bespoke railway training

UKTDA designs and delivers bespoke railway training for organisations that need practical, safety-critical learning built around real operational risk. Training can support recruitment, onboarding, competence development, CPD, incident learning, human factors, degraded working and professional development.

Bespoke course design for your organisation

Scenario-based operational learning

Human factors, NTS and decision-making content

Training aligned to local risks, roles and standards

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Dedicated LMS and Course Builder

TRAC-Learn

TRAC-Learn gives organisations a dedicated learning management system for railway training, CPD, briefings, assessments and evidence. The Course Builder allows structured learning content to be created, delivered, tracked and evidenced across teams, depots and roles.

Dedicated LMS for railway learning and CPD

Course Builder for organisation-specific content

Knowledge checks, assessments and completion records

Learner progress and training evidence in one place

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Dedicated Competence Management System

TRAC-CMS

TRAC-CMS helps organisations manage safety-critical competence records, assessments, reviews, development actions and assurance evidence. It is designed to support clearer visibility of competence status, outstanding actions and evidence quality.

Competence records and assessment evidence

Manager reviews and development actions

Role, depot and team-level visibility

Audit-ready evidence for assurance activity

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Safety-critical recruitment augmentation and support

RAT-BAT

RAT-BAT supports safety-critical recruitment by adding structured behavioural risk insight to the selection process. It helps organisations explore risk maturity, rule attitude, task judgement, situational awareness and non-technical skills before or during recruitment.

Recruitment support for safety-critical roles

Risk maturity and task judgement insight

NTS and behavioural risk mapping

Interview prompts and candidate comparison

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Organisational use cases

Built for operators, training providers and safety-critical teams that need stronger control, consistency and evidence.

UKTDA support can help organisations improve recruitment insight, training delivery, competence assurance, incident learning and management visibility.

Recruit safer, better-prepared candidates

Use RAT-BAT to add structured behavioural risk evidence to recruitment, helping selection teams explore judgement, rule attitude, risk appetite and operational suitability.

Deliver consistent organisational learning

Use TRAC-Learn to deliver standardised courses, briefings, CPD, onboarding, refresher training and operational updates with completion evidence.

Build your own internal courses

Use the Course Builder to create learning content specific to your organisation, depot, route, traction, rules, local risks or internal processes.

Manage safety-critical competence

Use TRAC-CMS to record assessments, reviews, evidence, development plans, competence status and management interventions.

Turn incidents into learning

Convert incidents, near misses, safety events and operational trends into meaningful learning, reflection, competence actions and evidence.

Improve management visibility

Give managers clearer visibility of recruitment risk, learning completion, competence status, outstanding actions and assurance gaps.

How the platform connects

From recruitment insight to learning, competence and assurance.

The strongest organisational value comes when recruitment, learning and competence are connected. RAT-BAT identifies risk and behavioural themes. TRAC-Learn delivers targeted learning. TRAC-CMS records competence and evidence. Management information then supports assurance, intervention and continuous improvement.

RAT-BAT

1. Assess

Add structured behavioural risk insight to recruitment or development by assessing risk maturity, task judgement, rule attitude and non-technical skills.

TRAC-Learn

2. Train

Deliver learning, CPD, briefings, knowledge checks and bespoke courses through a dedicated LMS and Course Builder.

TRAC-CMS

3. Evidence

Record competence evidence, assessments, reviews, development actions and assurance activity in a dedicated competence management system.

TRAC ecosystem

4. Assure

Use management information to identify risk trends, gaps, outstanding actions, learning needs and assurance priorities.

Bespoke training examples

Training designed around operational reality, not generic classroom content.

UKTDA can support organisations with immersive, online and scenario-based learning that reflects the realities of railway operations, safety-critical decision making and professional competence.

VR and immersive training

Create safe, controlled access to operational environments, traction equipment, depots, routes, cabs, lineside risk and scenario-based decision making.

Cab, traction and equipment familiarisation

Procedures and risk exposure without live operational risk

Suitable for onboarding, refresher training and CPD

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Safety-critical learning

Develop training around operational risk, degraded working, communication, workload management, situational awareness and decision making.

Human factors and non-technical skills

Operational thinking and risk-based decisions

Scenario-led learning for safety-critical roles

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Route, traction and local risk

Support route learning, traction knowledge, local instructions, depot risks and organisation-specific operational requirements.

Route and traction knowledge support

Local risk and procedure awareness

Evidence linked to learning and competence

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Consultancy and implementation support

Support with the platform, the people and the process.

UKTDA can support organisations beyond the software itself. We can help shape workflows, improve evidence quality, develop managers and assessors, review competence frameworks and turn operational learning into structured improvement.

Implementation support

Support to help organisations introduce TRAC-Learn, TRAC-CMS, RAT-BAT or a connected TRAC approach, including setup, workflows, role design and adoption.

Competence framework review

Review existing competence arrangements, assessment evidence, development actions, manager consistency and assurance visibility.

Manager, instructor and assessor development

Develop the people responsible for training, assessing, coaching and managing safety-critical staff.

Audit and evidence improvement

Improve the structure, quality and accessibility of evidence used for competence, training, assurance and governance activity.

Incident learning support

Support the conversion of incidents, trends and near misses into learning, reflection, competence actions and measurable improvement.

Governance and data controls

Support platform governance, access control, audit trails, controlled records and ISO 27001-aligned information security thinking.

Security, governance and assurance

Designed for organisations that need control, accountability and evidence.

Training, competence and recruitment records are sensitive organisational evidence. TRAC is positioned around controlled access, audit trails, information governance and ISO 27001-aligned thinking so that organisations can build trust in the platform and the evidence it holds.

This matters across all connected areas: RAT-BAT assessment data, TRAC-Learn training records, TRAC-CMS competence evidence and the management information used for assurance decisions.

Role-based access control for different user groups

Audit trails to support assurance and accountability

Controlled records for learning, competence and recruitment activity

Clear data ownership and information governance

ISO 27001-aligned information security thinking

Support for compliance, risk management and policy governance

ISO 27001-aligned positioning

TRAC can be developed and described using ISO 27001-aligned principles, including information security management, access control, audit evidence, risk management, supplier assurance, incident management, policy governance and controlled records.

FAQs

Organisational support FAQs

Common questions about UKTDA’s organisational offer, including bespoke training, TRAC-Learn, TRAC-CMS and RAT-BAT recruitment support.

Organisational enquiry

Discuss support for your organisation.

Tell us what you need to improve: recruitment insight, bespoke training, learning delivery, competence management, assurance evidence or safety-critical development. We can discuss the right UKTDA, TRAC-Learn, TRAC-CMS or RAT-BAT approach.

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