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Regulations 8 and 29
1. The general training has the following objectives—
(a)acquiring the knowledge and procedures regarding railway technologies, including - safety principles and the philosophy behind operational regulations,
(b)acquiring knowledge and procedures regarding the risks related to railway operation and the various means to be used to combat them,
(c)acquiring knowledge and procedures regarding the principles guiding one or more railway operating modes,
(d)acquiring knowledge and procedures regarding trains, their composition and technical requirements on traction units, wagons, coaches and other rolling stock.
2. In particular, train drivers must be able to—
(a)understand the specific requirements for working in the profession of train driver, its importance, and the professional and personal demands (long periods of work, being away from home, etc),
(b)apply staff safety rules,
(c)identify rolling stock,
(d)know and apply a working method in a precise manner,
(e)identify the reference and applications documents (manual of procedures and manual of lines as defined in the “Operations” TSI(1), driver’s manual, breakdown manual, etc),
(f)learn behaviours which are compatible with safety-critical responsibilities,
(g)identify the procedures applicable to accidents involving persons,
(h)distinguish the hazards involved in railway operations in general,
(i)know the principles governing traffic safety,
(j)apply the basic principles of electrotechnology.
O.J. No. L 359, 18.12.2006, p.1. The Operations TSI is the “Technical Specification of Interoperability” relating to the subsystem “Traffic Operation and Management” of the trans-European conventional rail system annexed to Commission Decision 2006/920/EC.
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