Posted By John Webster Not quite sure what you have done wrong, Paul, to have nearly all the references to your site deleted. Your site appeared to be non-commercial & free of charge......unless, of course, I missed the offending posting. I recall web-safety.com getting the moderator treatment some while ago, but then they did have part of the site for paid up members only so they were regarded as commercial.

Posted By Mike Charleston I agree with John and Geoff that the reasons behind telling Paul he was in the wrong are not at all obvious to me, and presumably other regular readers as well. What's more, I feel like I have been participating in something illicit by reading his postings, visiting his website and finding things that interested me! Every case of censoring should be justifiable so come on moderator(s), please do tell us what the problem was. Paul: Can I suggest you include your full name and contact details on your website, rather than just an e-mail address? Apart from whatever issue is subsequently raised by the moderators I must say that I have found your site to be beneficial and highly commendable, given its non-commercial approach. Mike

Posted By Mike Charleston Thanks for the clarification Martin. I appreciate that site advertising could easily get out of hand and I appreciate that you and your colleagues debated the situation before making the decision you did. In this respect you are acting on behalf of us all. The result does seem too harsh on what is a perfectly good, not-for-profit offering. More importantly, if anybody else wants to follow up this debate by looking at Paul's offerings, his website address has subsided into oblivion - and I am NOT convinced that such a result is in anybody's interest. I have no involvement with Paul or his site, so feel unrestricted in recommending it as worthwhile and a valuable addition to free H&S material on the worldwide web. Try it out! http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/safetysite/ From a moderator's perspective, perhaps this posting provides a model for the future - stop the direct advertising as you have done, but feel free to recognise the site as non commercial in your explanation, and permit such addresses to remain accessible. Mike

Posted By Merv Newman I have just checked and cannot find paul's non commercial site on the links page. Why not ? Also, I would like to know why I now find certain words on the chat page and elswhere highlighted and underlined giving links to very commercial sites ie sixweekbody.com (in six weeks you too can have a body like angela rippon) Have you been hacked or have I ? Merv Newman I have now put pauls address in my favourites file. Suggest you do the same - unless our webmaster agrees that it should be included on the links page, which seems the fairest thing to do. Bon courage, paul Merv Newman

Posted By Alan Woitch First of all my keyboard is on its funny half hour. SECOND IM from Ireland and we are long winded…the only punctuation I have is a FULL STOP……….. i am new to this forum, hopefully I will be allowed to stay I am just starting in Health and safety I have checked out a lot of web sites for information and not one of them have come close to the standard of THAT SITE WE SHALL MENTION The fact that the information is sent in by other safety officers who want to share their knowledge and its FREE………… if its free will you contribute to it...........each of us are woking in different environment just think some simple guidelines could help some one sone where can you imagine what a source like that be…………. I hope the site will continue……………. ALAN