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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/4 Control of Working Hours & Fatigue Policy
Clapham Accident DOT Report by Anthony Hidden
Fatigue Risk Index User Guide
ORR Managing Rail Fatigue
Intro Slides from Workshop
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):
Office of Rail & Road: "Fitness to Work” December 2017
RSSB Guidance on Fatigue & Alertness
Network Rail Fatigue Reduction Programme
Workshop 13 - Management of Fatigue Risk & Control of Working Hours Policy
Workshop first broadcast 13 April 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/4 Control of Working Hours & Fatigue Policy
Clapham Accident DOT Report by Anthony Hidden
Fatigue Risk Index User Guide
ORR Managing Rail Fatigue
Intro Slides from Workshop
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):
Office of Rail & Road: "Fitness to Work” December 2017
RSSB Guidance on Fatigue & Alertness
Network Rail Fatigue Reduction Programme