Network Rail: On track to success

Background

Network Rail owns, operates and develops Britain’s Rail infrastructure.

Network Rail consists of 14 routes which are supported by five Network Rail regions, each led by a managing director. The five Network Rail regions are Eastern, North West & Central, Scotland’s Railway, Southern and Wales & Western. These five regions were formed in June 2019 and have the budget and capability to take on more responsibility from other parts of the business. 

The routes are responsible for operations, maintenance and minor renewals, including the day-to-day delivery of train performance and the relationship with their local train operating companies.

Challenges

Astutis is an authorised Supplier of Health, Safety and Environment training to Network Rail and conforms to the ‘Working with Network Rail’ ethos of ‘Safety and service is central to everything we do. We expect all our suppliers to support us in working sustainably to deliver world-class safety and a service that puts passengers and freight users first’.

Network Rail operates in a complex and high-risk environment where safety is paramount. The safety of ‘passengers and other members of the public using their infrastructure, the safety of employees and safety in their partnerships’.

Astutis has been engaged with the delivery and support of a wide range of HS&E consultation and training across the Network Rail Community for more than 10 years

Our experience within the Rail industry has enabled us to understand the challenges Network Rail are faced with and helped support training needs.

Results

Astutis has delivered a wide range of services to Network Rail. Historically, the large project meant we allocated a ‘Pool’ of Trainers to support the roll out initiative of CDM and more recently with Environmental Sustainability training at all levels.

Astutis have directly supported various needs within the business, working directly in partnership with the Training Team at head office and providing day to day Account Management support. SLAs are in place to provide an excellent standard of service.

Delivering and Supporting Network Rail personnel with HSE Induction right up to Directorate level with the NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma.

Network Rail deploy robust series of metrics that measure safety standards continually working with Astutis on learner evaluation and improvement measures.