Abstract :
This paper discusses the individual skills required by an effective commissioning team. People within the team require specialist technical skills, which need to be supplemented by a set of social skills, thus enabling them to manage in diverse environments. Paramount to this is the ability to manage the interface between project team, train operator, maintenance provider and commissioning team. Type testing and approval testing is, perhaps, the most costly and time-consuming area of the commissioning process. This is the stage that carries the most risk for the manufacturer, as the safety case will depend on the information gathered, data analysed, and solutions generated. To reduce the risk, and the unexpected appearance of expensive mistakes, safety case testing needs to be taken into account during the design stage
