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Workshop 22 - Competence Management for Duty Officers

Workshop first broadcast 18 January 2022.


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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/C/M/1 Overall Document
SMS Document Template - HOPS/SMS/C/M/2 Theory Assessment
SMS Document Template - HOPS/SMS/C/M/3 Practical Assessment
SMS Document Template - HOPS/SMS/C/M/4 Advanced DO Interview
Workshop 22 Slides

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.