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Workshop 12 - SMS Intro and Drugs & Alcohol Policy

Workshop first broadcast 2 March 2021.


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Best Practice Documents

IMPORTANT: THIS IS NOT YOUR ORGANISATION'S SMS. This is a template. If you have found this document when looking for your organisation's SMS documents then please contact your manager for details of the location of the applicable SMS in force where you work.

SMS Document Template - HOPS/SMS/Z/3 Drugs & Alcohol Policy
Function Supervisor's Instructions - Procedure 3: Drugs & Alcohol Screening
Drugs & Alcohol SOP Poster
Screening Flowchart (Original)
Intro Slides from this Workshop
Slides from Workshop 13, with D&A screening and medication checking info.

These documents are a compilation of SMS best-practice drawn from research, experience and input from a number of heritage railways. It is the responsibility of the individual Duty Holder to ensure this text is appropriate for their undertaking, and amending it where required, before adopting it as policy. No guarantee is given that the processes described in this document are adequate to control all the risks for every duty holder.

Copyright & Usage. Template documents are copyright (c) HOPS. A licence is given to HOPS Advanced Member organisations to use and amend the text as required to suit local circumstances for their heritage railway undertaking and to adopt the result in their SMS. Not to be used for commercial purposes or re-distributed.

The files are presented here in Word format to enable local editing. Save as PDF before circulating.

These template documents must not be re-hosted elsewhere.

Sources (external links):

Transport & Works Act 1992:
Section 29 – Staff not to be under the influence
Section 28 – Requirement of employer to apply due diligence

Office of Rail & Road: "Fitness to Work” December 2017

RSSB Guidance on the Management of Drugs & Alcohol – GE/GN8570 Issue 2

RSSB Guidance on Drugs & Alcohol Testing – RIS-8070-TOM Issue 1

RAIB Incident Reporting Schedule 1

Network Rail Safety Central