Posted By Kevin D Forbes James You raise some very good points. quite frankly I am fed up of the censorship on this site having had several of my postings removed recently. I am setting up a not for profit ( yes moderators not a business venture ) website aimed at transforming HSE recruitment. As part of this website I will be adding a form where people will be free to express themselfs on the forms. have a look at the idea www.hsepeople.com Kev

Posted By Alan Haynes and perhaps some FAQs

Posted By Kevin D Forbes Chris would you be interested n putting pen to paper and comming up with a form for the above mentioned site this is realy the first time ive used them and not much experience. i need something I can give to web design company to work from. Let me know if interested. Kev

Posted By Sharon Something else too, when viewing a thread and wanting to post only to find you have not logged in..... suggestion is once logged in you are sent back to the thread you are viewing and not back to the main thread listing.

Posted By Sharon Lets have some smilies too!

Posted By Crim Why not have a satisfaction questionnaire of some sort sent to the thread originator, after a period of time, with questions like, Did you get what you wanted from the forum? Was the input useful? Were all contributions sensible? Did contributors keep to the point? Do you have any suggestions for improvement? etc. etc. etc.

Posted By Merv Newman Dave Marchant, "Basically what you're all asking for is a phpBB or Invision message board, but the IOSH server is running ColdFusion - and the (free) choices for that platform are to say the least "limited"" Does this site have a translation facility ? Or does that come under "limited" ? I've just mentally run through half a dozen exclamation type phrases, the most polite of which were gobsmacked and boggled. Does anyone up there speak H&S ? Merv OK. It's time for Countdown. Brain in gear.

Posted By Dave Merchant Merv - ColdFusion, sold by Adobe, is the software system running the IOSH site, which is why all the page addresses end with ".cfm". Some people like ColdFusion, but only some. They tend to be the same people who sit on the top deck of an empty bus. I say this as an Adobe programmer who knows what CF can do (it runs some of the biggest Flash-based sites on the Web) but of course none of that is apparent from what you're looking at here... All the major forum systems are written to only work on servers running PHP, which is by far the most common scripting language for webservers, and most people replying to this thread who've seen "things on forums they like" will have seen them on phpBB, a free system written in PHP that's used by around 10 million people every day. The standard page layout of topics-threads-posts is a phpBB thing. Invision is a commercial homage to phpBB, also designed for PHP rather than ColdFusion, and mostly used by corporations who get scared of something good being free and prefer to pay someone for what is 99% the same thing. ..and no, I don't talk H&S very often. Hanging off turbines is merely something to do when our computers crash.

Posted By Tom Loomes Hi forum users, As you might know we’re currently developing a brand new IOSH website. This is due to be launched in the autumn. As part of our ongoing improvements to services, we've collected a lot of information from committees, workshops and events, from both members and non-members about redesigning the website. Last year we posted an online survey across the IOSH website for you to have your say about the website and forums. We had a great response and have used your feedback to develop the new IOSH website. So what’s happening to the discussion forums? Well, our new forums will continue to offer the high standards that you’re used to, however, the look and feel will change completely. We need to compete with other leading forums and offer greater services, so we’ll be introducing new features such as: - Private messaging - Avatars – choose a personalised image that represents you - My profile – a page about you - Watch forums – keep an eye on specific threads - Quote a post – lets you copy the post you’re referring to - Enhanced search facility - Forum/thread RSS feeds - My favourite threads – keep a list of your top threads The forums are due to be built soon and we’d like your help with the development and final design. This will involve trying out the new forums and features. If you can spare some time between April and August and would like to be part of the project, email me at tom.loomes@iosh.co.uk for more information. Best regards, Tom Loomes Web Assistant

Posted By shaun mckeever I'd be interested in voting buttons. So for example if someone posts a question which requires a yes/no answer it might be useful to the response. A bit like 'ask the audience'. The audience isn't necessarily always right but most of the time they are.