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Workshop 23 - User-Worked Level Crossing Risk

Workshop first broadcast 1 March 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/LC/1 Managing Level Crossings
SMS Document Template - HOPS/SMS/LC/2 LC RA (all crossing types)
SMS Document Template - HOPS/SMS/LC/3/FP LC RA (footpath crossings)
SMS Document Template - HOPS/SMS/LC/3/UWC LC RA (user-worked crossings)
SMS Document Template - HOPS/SMS/LC/3/... Sighting Appendix
SMS Document Template - HOPS/SMS/LC/4 LC PW Inspection
Layout Plan Example
Sighting Measurements Key
Flowchart for considering phones and MWLs
ORR - RSP7 - Level Crossings Guide for Managers, Designers, Operators
ORR - Principles for Managing Level Crossing Safety
RSSB - RIS-0792-CCS Issue 1 - Level Crossing Operational Interfaces
Workshop 23 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.