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Update 766 19 May 2021	HOPS FREE Virtual Workshops No 14, via Facebook Live screencast, continues our 2021 series of Safety Management System workshops, this Tuesday at 7pm. https://www.heritage-ops.org.uk/workshops This workshop concentrates on the management and recording of Competence, in the context of a heritage railway. Following an excellent suggestion after the first workshop, we invite all participants who wish to to sent in their current SMS policy relating to Competence Management. This will enable us to read all of them before the Workshop and combine all the best practices. Thank you for this great idea which will help make the workshop even more widely-considered and demonstrate inclusion of input from a wider range of railways! All content will be anonymised before inclusion, so please don't worry that you're exposing yourself or your company to liability. --- HOPS has been involved in writing, reviewing or updating Safety Management Systems on a number of railways and is often asked for help on the subject, so we have arranged to continue our successful live online workshops programme in 2021 with the series of SMS Best Practice workshops. The Workshops take place at six-week intervals at 7pm on Tuesday nights. They are live discussion videos, freely available to everyone to attend and ask questions live which we will try our best to answer as we go along based on our experience of SMSs and the management in general of heritage and main line railways. The videos will also be available to watch again later on YouTube. While all railways are different, there are many opportunities for overlap in SMS wording and a majority of overlapping SMS principles that can be applied. The six-week interval between workshops gives time in between each session for the local review and, where railways wish to, adaptation of the output to suit their local needs, before moving on to the next subject. Whatever the strength of your current SMS, it is always good to review it, and good to be able to demonstrate you've reviewed it and engaged with the peer-reviewed best practice. So please do join in the HOPS workshops, share your knowledge, and see what you can learn from other organisations too! --- HOPS has a great many tools to assist in the management of volunteer and employed staff at heritage and volunteer organisations. 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 90-120 minutes. Please let us know if you plan to join in via the "Going" button! https://www.facebook.com/events/2874032796147231
Update 693 20 November 2020	Further to Update 691, it has become apparent that permissions 403 and 404 were not moved across correctly. This would have resulted in some users not being able to view postal addresses where they previously could. I have run the process again so everyone who used to have 091 has now been given 404 again (if they didn't already have it) and everyone who used to have 090 has now been given 403 again (if they didn't already have it).
Update 691 18 November 2020	The permissions for viewing user details have been separated out in order to facilitate more granular control over viewing different elements of a user's personal details. Permission 091, to view user contact details on (and from) the railway staff list has been replaced with new permissions: 379 - view photos (existing) 404 - view postal address 398 - view email addresses 153 - view telephone numbers 399 - view DOBs Everyone and every group who had 091 has been automatically allocated the new permissions that directly replace 091 so no action = no change. Permission 090 (per department), to view user contact details on (and from) the department staff list has been replaced with new permissions: 378 - view photos (existing) 403 - view postal addresses 400 - view email addresses 154 - view telephone numbers 401 - view DOBs In both cases, 405 - view HOPS User Account Details. Everyone and every group who had 090 has been automatically allocated the new permissions that directly replace 090 so no action = no change. The permissions for editing details will be separated out in future. Also, the organisation staff list permissions no longer apply to the department staff lists. It used to be the case that if you had 'view contact details' for the org staff list, it automatically showed it all to you on all the dept staff lists as well. This no longer applies and the specific permissions for the department(s) are required. Everyone who used to have permissions for the org staff list now has the new equivalent permissions for 'all' depts so no action = no change.
Update 403 25 October 2016	New options "Set Priority" and "Set Remarks" have been added to the tickbox selection actions on the roster construction page.