The OPC recently hosted a complimentary webinar about Non-Technical skills (NTS) and how they can benefit safety critical organisations.
We had over 180 people register interest in the webinar and 85 people join us on the day. Delegates joined us from a whole range of different UK and International organisations who had an interest in NTS.
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The webinar ran for 45 minutes followed by delegate questions. We also used Menti software to help make the webinar interactive with instant online feedback. We are now looking to run the same webinar very soon for our UK and international clients and contacts. So watch this space!
We already have validation evidence that demonstrates that train drivers that have more safety incidents have lower VSE scores. Now an Australasian client wants to validate the VSE with its own drivers. They already use the VSE at train driver selection and now want to see the link with driving & safety performance.
The OPC psychologists have spent the last 6 months working with a UK rail client to deliver Non-Technical Skills (NTS) workshops to all of their Train Drivers.
In a new development an OPC psychologist is in Paris this week running a five-day Non-Technical Skills (NTS) train the trainer programme with French psychologists who specialise in transport.
NJ Transit in the United States have been using our Bureau Service and three online OPC Assessment tools to help recruit safe and effective Locomotive Engineers.