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Train dispatcher
A train dispatcher is an adult who is professionally trained for performing the tasks of a rail controller, has work experience as a traffic controller and is fit for the job in terms of physical condition and language skills.
A train dispatcher is a worker who regulates train traffic on a specified section of the railway line and organises transport of special shipments and provides information about changes in train traffic.
Conditions
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Train dispatchers must undergo practical training before carrying out their tasks as train dispatchers.
Practical training includes:
- learning about operative regulations in the safe management system and review of tracks or sections of the tracks and stations in the section where they will be working;
- working under supervision, and
- confirmation of familiarisation with conditions and procedures.
After passing the practical examination, the candidate receives a certificate from the employer with whom the practical part of the training took place.
To obtain the next certificate and before starting independent work on a different railway line or a section of the line, the train dispatcher must complete work under supervision and confirm their familiarisation with conditions and procedures with their signature.
Evidence
Certificate of completed practical part of the training
Legal basis
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Prior to professional training and filling their posts, station masters with responsibility for train movements and train dispatchers must work as station masters at technically and technologically demanding stations for at least five years.
Legal basis
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A worker who meets special health criteria has the right to work as a
railway operational staff member.
A railway operational staff member must be
physically and mentally able to do work for which the employment contract was
concluded.
Physical and mental abilities must be checked with regular and
exceptional medical examinations. Medical examinations are conducted and
managed by authorised health care institutions.
A regular medical examination
must be conducted before the expiry of the prescribed deadline.
Upon medical
examinations, a railway operational staff member must submit:
- an employer’s referral and
- official personal identification document.
Within 10
days after each medical examination, the authorised doctor issues a medical certificate
on the fulfilment of conditions for the safe work of a railway operational
staff member.
Evidence
Medical certificate for the assessment of fulfilling special medical
conditions
Legal basis
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During rail traffic management, railway operational staff members and
operational staff members on industrial sidings communicate in the language
determined by the operator.
The language of the operator in the Republic of
Slovenia is Slovenian.
All railway operational staff members must communicate
actively and efficiently with the infrastructure operator in normal, worsened
and extraordinary conditions.
Evidence
Certificate of completed theoretical training
Legal basis
Cross-border provisions of profession
Poklic Vlakovni dispečer ne sodi v poklicno direktivo.