I am in the process of putting together a ladder register for the College I work at. This issue arising is that we are looking at what method would be the best way for our various departments and faculties to record these within one central area. This will either need to be in Excel or Access. Looking at Excel I can see the limitations in trying to manage a sheet per dept/fac which allows monthly checks and comments, whilst the Access model will permit this but be more time consuming in developing. It was relatively straightforward in pervious employment, but this is the first time I have been working on a project with multi-users. Has anyone worked up anything similar which they can provide some insight to? Andrew Böber CMIOSH FRSPH FRGS

How does the site currently manage portable appliances, and for that matter any other inventory items that aren't fixed? No point in reinventing wheels, etc.