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Railway Employee Qualification Standards Regulations (SOR/87-150)

Regulations are current to 2026-09-30

 In these Regulations,

candidate

candidate means an employee who is required to undergo examination and on-job training in accordance with these Regulations in order to be qualified for an occupational category, but does not include an employee who undergoes re-examination; (candidat)

certificate

certificate means a document issued by a railway company pursuant to subsection 13(2) and identifying the employee to whom it has been issued and the occupational category for which the employee is qualified; (certificat)

classroom training instructor

classroom training instructor means a person qualified under these Regulations to give classroom instruction; (moniteur de formation théorique)

Commission

Commission means the Canadian Transport Commission; (Commission)

Committee

Committee means the Railway Transport Committee of the Commission; (Comité)

examiner

examiner means an employee or officer of a railway company who is qualified under these Regulations to examine employees; (examinateur)

occupational category

occupational category means the occupational category of locomotive engineer, transfer hostler, conductor or yard foreman; (catégorie d’emploi)

on-job training

on-job training means instruction provided to an employee by a railway company in the work environment appropriate to the employee’s occupational category; (formation en cours d’emploi)

on-job training instructor

on-job training instructor means an employee or officer of a railway company who is qualified under these Regulations to instruct employees; (moniteur de formation en cours d’emploi)

required subject

required subject, in respect of an occupational category, means a subject required by subsection 14(1) in order to qualify for the category; (sujet requis)

transfer hostler

transfer hostler means an employee who is assigned to move motive power units over yard tracks and main tracks between the locations where the units are maintained and repaired and the locations where the units are put into or removed from train or yard services. (mécanicien de manoeuvre)

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