GENERAL PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND REQUIREMENTS REGARDING THE LICENCE
ANNEX IVSupplementary provisions
ANNEX IV GENERAL PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND REQUIREMENTS REGARDING THE LICENCE The general training has the following objectives: — acquiring the knowledge and procedures regarding of railway technologies, including safety principles and the philosophy behind operational regulations, — acquiring knowledge and procedures regarding the risks related to railway operation and the various means to be used to combat them, — acquiring knowledge and procedures regarding the principles guiding one or more railway operating modes, — acquiring knowledge and procedures regarding trains, their composition and technical requirements on traction units, wagons, coaches and other rolling stock. In particular, drivers must be able to: — understand the specific requirements for working in the profession of driver, its importance, and the professional and personal demands (long periods of work, being away from home, etc.), — apply staff safety rules, — identify rolling stock, — know and apply a working method in a precise manner, — identify the reference and applications documents (manual of procedures and manual of lines as defined in the ‘Operations’ TSI, driver’s manual, breakdown manual, etc.), — learn behaviours which are compatible with safety-critical responsibilities, — identify the procedures applicable to accidents involving persons, — distinguish the hazards involved in railway operations in general, — know the principles governing traffic safety, — apply the basic principles of electrotechnology.