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Webinar on Non-Technical Skills (NTS) – feedback

Posted on 8th December 2020

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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NEW assessment tool released: Risk Anticipation & Time Focus Questionnaire (RTQ)

Posted on 11th November 2020

NEW assessment tool released: Risk Anticipation & Time Focus Questionnaire (RTQ)

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If working from home (WFH) is set to be similar for the next 6 months, then how can we support our employees?

Posted on 11th October 2020

RailProfessional has featured an article based around OPC’s COVID-19 Working from Home survey on how employees managed and felt in the earlier lockdown.

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OPC assessors shine in recent candidate experience survey

Posted on 20th August 2020

We know that attending an assessment centre can be a stressful time, which is why making the candidate experience as positive as possible is important to us at The OPC.

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Supporting employees back to work during Covid-19: Successfully undertaking remote PIAs

Posted on 12th August 2020

Successfully supporting safety-critical employees who have had safety of the line incidents: Undertaking remote  psychological assessments during Covid-19. See how the OPC psychologists have been supporting frontline safety critical employees back to work during the Covid-19

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Remote psychological test training during COVID-19

Posted on 19th July 2020

Remote psychological test training ramps up during COVID-19.

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NTS: Fad or Aid? Webinar

Posted on 6th May 2020

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!

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Australasian client looks to validate the Visual Search Exercise (VSE)

Posted on 6th May 2020

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.

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Non-Technical Skills (NTS) workshops

Posted on 3rd March 2020

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.

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Train the trainer programme

Posted on 17th February 2020

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.

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Helping a US client to recruit best & safest Locomotive Engineers using our online Bureau Service

Posted on 4th February 2020

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.

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