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Update 999 28 July 2023	TIMETABLES The pages for Signal Box Movements and Station Workings on both base timetables and daily timetables have been altered to show only on location at a time. This is to aid printing. Carriage Stock Diagrams have been added to the Signal Box Movements and Station Workings sheets. Loco diagrams will be added shortly, followed by loco allocations.
Update 667 04 July 2020	HOPS Workshop No 8 I am pleased to say the next HOPS Workshop, via Facebook Live video, will be on Thursday 9 July, starting at 7pm, where we will explain and demonstrate via screencast the new HOPS features relating to HOPS Risk Assessment tools. HOPS provides facilities for organisations to conduct and record risk assessments, including hazards, risks, control measures, exposure/likelihood/severity. The system has been written specifically for the environment of a heritage / volunteer organisation, where the processes and practicalities of conducting risk assessments are quite special, to help everyone meet the requirements of the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999: Reg. 3 - Every employer shall make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to the health and safety of his employees to which they are exposed whilst they are at work; and the risks to the health and safety of persons not in his employment arising out of or in connection with the conduct by him of his undertaking. [Employees includes volunteers] and ROGS 2006 ........ Reg 19 - A transport operator shall make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to the safety of any persons for the purpose of identifying the measures he needs to take to ensure safe operation of the transport system in question insofar as this is affected by his operation The HOPS RA system levels up risks to director areas so that organisation directors can always remain abreast of the risks in their areas of responsibility, even where they are not the person conducting the RA or have expert knowledge of the subject matter, and including where a risk impacts on more than one director area differently. RAs are versioned in HOPS, so reviews of RAs can be undertaken without losing the old versions, enabling the retention of the history of RAs. The RA tools are a new development in HOPS and it should be noted that some parts of the system remain under development and some final polishing is required. As always, though, the shape of the system is determined by the feedback from its users! HOPS has a great many tools to assist in the management of volunteer and employed staff at heritage and volunteer organisations. The Risk Assessment tools are part of Advanced HOPS. If anyone would like to be able to play with the tools but doesn't have an Advanced HOPS subscription please let us know and we will arrange a free evaluation trial period for you. https://www.heritage-ops.org.uk/about_section.php?s=37&o=p Previous HOPS Workshops are available to view on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeritageOps/videos/ and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRu_xPovYjpBegbwS-89jUg EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN IN. We will respond to comments and queries raised via the comments section during the live video. The video will start at 7pm and last approximately 60-90 minutes.
Update 40 01 January 2011	A lot of changes are about to take place to the way HOPS manages rostering. We have tried to make the parts of the website involved in rostering easier to navigate by grouping them together. Firstly, when inputting availability, there is now an 'Unlimited' box underneath the 'Number of Turns' box. Experience has shown that some users have been using '0' to mean 'unlimited' and some have been using '100' or '999', etc. While both methods are equally valid, the inconsistency causes problems for HOPS so now we have a consistent method of indicating 'Unlimited'.