NIR-Online

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NIR-Online

• Richard Bullard, London Lines
• Rebeka Sellick, Engineering Director, ATOC
• 4 November 2005

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A TOC perspective why?

• TOCs are examples of Railway Safety Case Duty
  Holders
• GM/RT8250 applies to us (the only changes will
  be to the means of initiating and disseminating)
• NIR-Online will make it easier for us to fulfil
  the requirements on us, and it will be
  comprehensive
• Weve been in the User Group which has put
  NIR-Online together idea, business case,
  functional requirements spec,
• Seamless transfer from most popular current
  management system (Natryx), and much more

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Implementation of NIR-Online

• Key activities performed in relation to NIRs
• Initiation and updates (us)
• Dissemination (Steve Deadman, NCC)
• Acknowledgement and review (us)
• Management (us)
• The future (our reps on the User Group)
• Processes and Benefits from a TOC perspective

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NIR Initiation Updates

• Same decision about optimum moment to initiate
  an NIR (e.g. need enough info, judgement call)
• Visit www.NIR-Online.net and raise NIR, using
  pull-down menus and built-in checks, add word/
  pdf document(s), add photos(s)
• Slicker process, but still possible to stop part
  way through and get more info (everything entered
  up til then is saved)
• As now, formal updates (i.e. interim or
  concluding NIRs) are notified to all
• Better than now, ability to add supporting info
  (e.g. photos, reports, comments) without
  notifying all

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NIR Acknowledgement Review

• Individual company specifies who gets sent
  notice of NIRs (e.g. by text message or email)
• Individual company specifies who is empowered to
  acknowledge NIRs on its behalf (on line)
• Automated electronic reminders of unacknowledged
  NIRs
• Company review exactly as now except on line
  (hence accessible anywhere with internet access,
  by authorised persons), and with higher data
  integrity
• Easy to contact initiator contact details up
  to date

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NIR Management

• Option to make comments private or public
• Ability to see comments made public by others
• Company specifies who can have read-only access
  (in addition to ability to acknowledge, raise,
  etc)
• Searchable (e.g. by keyword, by initiating
  company, by status with own company, by date)
• Annual report created at push of a button
• Traceability NIR-Online knows who wrote what
  to it

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NIR-Online - The future

• NIR-Online is officially an RSSB National
  Initiative
• This means its free at the point of use
• unless you subscribe to SMS text option (50p per
  text)
• It will continue to be managed by a User Group
• The User Group will review any issues with
  implementation and ideas for development of the
  system
• The RSSB Project Manager for NIR-Online is Simon
  Ayres (see next presentation!)