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Update 1017 5 November 2023

HOPS has a new tool for Competence Evidence Assurance - checking that evidence that justifies competence decisions exists and is compliant with your railway's SMS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlHuK3Yn4c8 This tool is currently in trial by a pilot group of railways. If any other railways would like to be part of the trial please let us know. Competence Evidence Assurance involves a second person checking that evidence exists and is compliant. This is following a few instances where evidence has been found by railways, uploaded in to HOPS by their assessors, but being way off compliant - eg wrong forms used, not filled in correctly, not signed, not marked, etc, etc. The is a 'Competence Evidence Assurance' tab in Competence > Competence Management which shows info for all elements across the whole railway. There is also an 'Assurance' tab in each individual element showing info just for that element. Assurance activity on individual element awards can also be accessed from the 'History & Evidence' tab of individual element awards. When a new award is made it still takes effect straight away, and it is considered 'submitted for assurance'. Ie in no-man's land. Hopefully Assurance will take place as the evidence will either be found to be in good order, or not satisfactory. Permissions 496 and 497 apply. (If it's not satisfactory the system says it will send emails about it but it does not do this yet. It also says that if it remains unsatisfactory for 7 days the competence will be revoked, but it does not do this yet either. These will be completed once it's had a bit of a trial.) If you would be interested in taking part in the trial, please let us know.