Paul Kirk Chairman National Rail Contractors Group

Contracting Contracting is about Delivery  Safe  Efficient  On Time In a challenging environment  Downward pressure on costs  Greater competition  Technology change  Skills Shortage

Enablers for Success Success depends on continuous improvement:  Processes  Equipment, plant and machinery  Improved methods, planning, logistics, reporting  People

People Core  Directly employed core  Supported by the Contingent Workforce to accommodate demand variability But  Historical industry-wide variability with training delivery

Quality Assured Competence We now have: AAccredited training providers and assessors through RTAS – driving improvements RRegister of Organisations, Trainers & Assessors and a Training Directory – providing visibility NNational Qualification Framework – delivers consistency On their own these are useful, but become powerful when linked together for both the Individual and the Company SkillsID makes this happen

 SkillsID enables the most robust Quality Assurance process for people skills that the Railway Industry has ever seen.