Competency Management System Development
Australian rail transport operators have a legal requirement to ensure that rail safety workers are competent to perform their work (Rail Safety (Adoption of National Law) Act 2012 No 82). Some rail operators, such as Sydney Trains, choose to ensure this through their own competence management system and assessment processes. In other cases, organisations providing rail safety workers are required to have internal Competency Management Systems (CMS).
One example of this is Authorised Engineering Organisations (AEOs), who are required by the Assets Standards Authority (ASA - TfNSW) to develop and maintain their own systems for competence management which are audited by the ASA.