We’re very proud to have supported the rail industry for over 25 years. Our understanding of the stringent requirements of the sector is unmatched. All our doctors are registered as practitioners with the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) and are experienced in railway medicine.
Results Direct to Sentinel
We make it easy for you by uploading your results directly to Sentinel (where applicable), so you can get straight to work.
Drug Testing for Rail
Our drug and alcohol screening services are tailored specifically to the standards set by rail operators. Our close relationship with the major players in the industry means we’re always up to date.
Not sure what you need? Just let us know who you’re working with and we’ll handle the rest.
Rail Medical Assessments
Our railway medical assessments include
Network Rail Competence-Specific Medical (formerly known as PTS - Personal Track Safety)
London Underground Medicals - including Protection Master, Individual Working Alone and Basic Track Awareness
DLR Medical
Crossrail Medical
HS2 Medical
Train Movements Medical
Train Driver Medical
Irish Rail Medical
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Network Rail Medicals
One of our most popular services is a Network Rail Medical, formerly known as a PTS (or Personal Track Safety) Medical. Any employee must have a PTS Medical before attending a PTS course to work on Network Rail Infrastructure.
The PTS medical is designed to ensure that all individuals in safety critical roles have physical capacity to be reliably safe when working on tracks, for their own benefit and for those around them.
The competency-specific assessment covers a medical questionnaire, height/weight/BMI, blood pressure, pulse, blood glucose level, mobility, vision testing (including colour vision), hearing test.
Network Rail Drug & Alcohol Testing
As well as a PTS medical, you are required to undertake Network Rail D&A screening. The NWR drug test is a lab analysis of a urine sample. The rail industry has an alcohol cut off level of 13 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml of breath.
The urine sample is either tested at the point of contact or at our RISQS accredited laboratory and analysed.
Network Rail’s drug and alcohol policy is zero-tolerance. If you test positive for any of the substances in the 7 panel, your Sentinel card will be cancelled, and you will not be able to work on their infrastructure for 5 years.
Experts in Rail
Our Senior Rail Consultant, Dr Steve Malleson, Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, has over 30 years’ experience of rail and transport medicine. He is a founding member, and former chairman, of ARIOPS (Association of Railway Occupational Health Practitioners).
Director Michael Stallard worked for London Underground
for over 37 years, from train driver to managing the Occupational Health department and Drug and Alcohol testing programmes. He served on the board of the European Workplace Drug Society from 2013 to 2017.