{"product_id":"amtrak-training-improvements-needed-for-employees-who-inspect-and-maintain-rail-equipment-rced-93-68-9781289054595","title":"Amtrak Training: Improvements Needed for Employees Who Inspect and Maintain Rail Equipment: RCED-93-68","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): U. S. Government Accountability Office (\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bibliogov\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bibliogov\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePursuant to a congressional request, GAO evaluated Amtrak's training programs for new locomotive engineers, assistant conductors, signal maintainers, and mechanics (carmen) and foremen in the Amtrak Mechanical Department. \u003cbr\u003e GAO found that: (1) the engineer training program is centrally designed and managed, mandatory for all new engineers, and designed to be consistently delivered to all trainees; (2) the assistant conductor training is centrally developed and mandatory for all new assistant conductors; (3) Amtrak promotes trainees to positions as signal maintainers without ensuring that they complete important classroom training; (4) Amtrak's training programs for most of its carmen and mechanical foremen are not centrally designed and managed or consistently applied; (5) Amtrak does not routinely train its foremen in the multiple crafts they supervise; and (6) foremen are expected to decide whether carman trainees have the skills to become fully qualified carmen when they may not have the technical skills to make this determination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46492681175191,"sku":"9781289054595","price":1437.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781289054595.jpg?v=1766353821","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/amtrak-training-improvements-needed-for-employees-who-inspect-and-maintain-rail-equipment-rced-93-68-9781289054595","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}