Qualification details

Release 1 . This is the first release of this qualification in the TLI Transport and Logistics Training Package.

This is a qualification for a person who undertakes a rail safety investigation within the rail industry in accordance with regulations, rail network standards, rules and procedures.

This qualification applies to a technically competent or rail operations experienced person who, while working under a level of supervision, has responsibility for investigating safety incidents to exercise discretion and judgement using appropriate rail knowledge to provide technical assistance and safety support to rail operations stakeholders.

Job roles: 

This qualification is aligned to the following defined role:

• rail safety incident investigator.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.

There are no entry requirements for this qualification.

A total of 12 units of competency  comprising:

• 9 core units  listed below, plus 
• 3 general elective units  from the general elective units  listed below.

Up to 2 of the general elective units  may be selected from any relevant nationally endorsed Training Package. The general elective units must contribute to the vocational outcomes of the qualification.

Where imported units are selected, care must be taken to ensure that all prerequisite units specified are complied with.

Core units 

BSBOPS403

Apply business risk management processes

PSPREG039

Gather information through interviews

TLIB3118

Apply awareness of railway fundamentals

TLIE3022

Complete workplace documents

TLIE4030

Prepare rail safety reports

TLIF0045

Investigate rail safety incidents

TLIF0054

Respond to notifiable rail safety occurrences

TLIF2062

Apply awareness of safeworking rules and regulations

TLIF4088

Implement and coordinate rail safety and WHS risk-control strategies

General elective units 

BSBWHS515

Lead initial response to and investigate WHS incidents

TLIB4042

Conduct inspection of safeworking procedures and infrastructure

TLIF0008

Apply safety critical communications in the rail environment

TLIF0015

Recognise the impact of human capabilities/limitations on human performance in a rail environment

TLIF0020

Safely access the rail corridor

TLIF0023

Conduct track protection assessment

TLIF3085

Apply local incident response procedures

TLIF4101

Implement and maintain a rail safety culture

TLIG0001

Facilitate work teams

This qualification replaces but is not equivalent to TLI40821 Certificate IV in Rail Safety Investigation.