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Personal Track Safety (PTS)

Welcome to the UK's largest provider of PTS Training

We have over 60 centres up and down the UK that offer Personal Track Safety (PTS), so we can usually send you to a centre within a 10 mile radius of where you are based. Please feel free to use the "post code search" to locate the closest venue to yourself.

For those of you who wish to gain access to the Rail industry then you MUST obtain the mandatory Personal Track Safety (PTS) - INITIAL qualification.

Please click here to view our scheduled Personal Track Safety (PTS) - INITIAL courses

For those of you who already hold the PTS qualification, you may have noticed that it has an expiry date. If this expiry date is soon approaching then you may want to consider renewing this qualification with our Personal Track Safety (PTS) RE-CERTIFICATION qualification.

Please click here to view our scheduled Personal Track Safety (PTS) - RE-CERTIFICATION courses

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Any person aged 18 or over that are required to carry out duties on or near a railway line and does not currently hold a valid Personal Track Safety Certificate. People aged 16 and 17 may attend and are permitted to hold a PTS Certificate, however they are only permitted on or near the line under the supervision of a Controller of Site Safety.

OBJECTIVES

On successful completion of the course the delegate will be able to, in accordance with Railway Group Standards:

• Demonstrate their ability to interpret correctly Rule Book, Track Safety Handbook (TSH) and relevant local instructions when required to go on or near the line
• Demonstrate their understanding and ability to follow a safe system of work

CONTENT

• Getting to know the infrastructure
• Are you fit for work
• The Sentinel Scheme
• Going on to the railway
• Walking in a group and working
• During the work
• Communicating clearly
• Emergency situations
• Track visit and assessment
• Interactive review exercise (optional)
• Theory assessment
• Completion of post course training objectives