Ah Buzz, were you just 'surprised' or were you frustrated and unsettled? I wonder how may posters here typed up messages and saved them in a text doc until Monday :o)

Shame they could not stick to stated targets and have not explained why it overran the seven days. Obviously an IT company/consultancy not to use again. Hope there were some good penalty clauses. Bob

Typical! I'd heard it was you that broke it Graham. :-)

Though I wondered if the forum would re-appear with a clearly displayed disclaimer of the sort which it originally had, there's evidently been no change. Therefore, those of us who think that the forum should have a disclaimer (to protect IOSH's reputation and also to advise against reliance on forum postings) remain free to continue to press for one! :-)

The forum is not the only way we can make our valued points, I did notice a letter by Graham to a South Manchester paper recently, unless there are 2 of you.

is it on line?

This forum could have been but wasn't amended to include a new "super duper forum user" category, mainly to warn others that such users are frequent/habitual posters who perhaps spend too much time on this forum rather than in the real world! As for flysafe's comment at #10, yes, a letter of mine, though not really about OS&H, was published a few weeks ago in a South Manchester newspaper. Unfortunately, it had been mis-edited by the newspaper with the result that some facts were omitted and its concluding gist was impaired. Though I contacted the editor with a brief corrective letter, it wasn't published. It seems that neither letter was published on-line. Even so, I’m not disheartened about sending letters to magazines and newspapers for publication, just realistic that editors have the final say about what they publish and whether or not to edit letters. While on the subject of editing, surely all of us who post on this forum have edit facilities known as eyes, brains and fingers which can be used to read through and if necessary amend what we’ve typed before we hit the ‘post’ button. Okay, though we all make mistakes for various reasons including excess haste, fatigue or interruption, surely we should at least aspire to avoid typos and other mistakes in our postings.

Has anyone noticed anything different with regards to the forums (apart from any logging in or crashing problems identified by Claire) because I have not?

Graham, there is a disclaimer, although it is rather hidden. The link for the Terms of Use is at the bottom of the forum page http://www.iosh.co.uk/te...f_use.aspx#Liabilitydisc as follows 9. The contents of the IOSH Site and our microsites (including our forums) don’t constitute advice, and reliance upon such content is entirely at the user’s own risk. I am not sure what visible changes there are, I would have preferred to see the ability to format with bold to save HAVING TO USE CAPS FOR EMPHASIS! Oh, and an edit function, common on many forums would have been nice!! Sorry CAPS used for emphasis!!!!

How dare you display a sense of humour on here young man. Humour is most definately not allowed. Go to the naughty corner.

Very true. I am just a kids toy after all. However, I've seen things,.. you people wouldn't believe.... Attacked fire risks with control measures...... I watched H&S at Work Act implementation, glitter for nearly 10 hours a day.... All those moments, will be lost in time,.... like tears in rain.