ASSESSMENT OF EXPERTISE AND SKILLS OF WINTER MAINTENANCE OPERATORS

摘要

A research program, initiated by the Swedish Transport Administration and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in 2012, will develop qualifications standards for winter maintenance crew. The objective of the program is to ensure competent winter maintenance operators to get safe and effective flow of traffic with low cost. The program constitutes a part of the project “Scandinavian Infrastructure Competence”, a Scandinavian cooperation project within the European Regional Fund.rnA system for examination of winter maintenance personnel is developed. The main focus of the first stages has been on the expertise and skills requirements for winter operation managers and winter operation crew. The competence requirements are described according to a competence model based on National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for Sweden which in turn is developed from The European Qualifications Framework (EQF). Later a management system for secure handling of personnel certificates will be developed.rnThe examination of the candidates is performed by a set of questions with multiple choice answers. To pass the examination the candidate must give the right answer to 70 – 80 % of the total amount of questions.rnThe implementation of the competence requirements in the winter maintenance contracts will start in 2014.