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Career Guidance Skills information skills S2.8 - monitoring, inspecting and testing S2.8.4 - monitoring safety or security Detect flaws in rails
Description
Detect internal flaws in rails in order to prevent derailments.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 2 occupations
- Total: 3 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 3 (Technicians and associate professionals)
Essential for
- Rolling stock inspectorRolling stock inspectors inspect wagons and carriages to asses their technical condition while grouped together and before they are used for transportation activities. They ch…
Optional for
- Railway infrastructure inspectorRailway infrastructure inspectors are responsible for checking the conditions of railways. They monitor compliance to health and safety standards and inspect the infrastructure to …
- Rail maintenance technicianRail maintenance technicians execute routine inspections of railway tracks, powerlines, signage stations, switches, and other railway infrastructure. They are also sent out to repa…
Related skills
- Write rail defect records
- Characteristics of wheel rail interface
- Health and safety measures in transportation
- Enforce railway safety regulations
- Detect rail track malfunctions
- Liaise with rail experts
- Ensure implementation of subsidence mitigation measures
- Shunt inbound loads
- Rail infrastructure
- Operate rail-flaw-detection machine
- Test the rail-flaw-detection machine
- Operate railway freight monitoring technologies
Last updated on February 18, 2026
