Health and Safety Website (NEW)

[abs1984]

AMS Safety

Please review our website which has launched today. It provides a complete solution for both businesses and Health and Safety professional.

WEBSITE ADDRESS:

www.amssafety.co.uk

Our aim is to deliver a professional service to the high demanding requirements of the health and safety industry.

We hope you enjoy the site, you will need to register in order to view the full contents but its completly FREE. Any feedback is more than welcome.

Abdul Malik

Managing Director

[Ian J]

So you would like me to review your website for you but in order to do you this favour I have to provide you with my full name, address, telephone number and email address first.

I think not.

[abs1984]

Hi Ian,
In response could i please state that personal details are not mandatory and you can register solely with a username/ password, you may leave other areas blank!The system will not ask for personal details as a mandatoy field, this are is more for larger organisations who need continous H&S information.

I hope this has eased your initial thought.

Regards

Abdul

[fisicx]

The solutions page is 'coming soon' and the learn zone and download pages require me to sign up.

If I go to the HSE website (http://www.hse.gov.uk/) I get everything for free without signing up.

What do you offer that the HSE doesn't?

Incidentally, you have some major coding issues you need to fix pronto. Increase the font size to see what I mean. And the template you are using has some horrendous JS requirements that would be are totally unnecessary if you built a cross-browser compliant site.

[abs1984]

Hi, thankyou for your response.

AMS Safety offers a wide variety of free tools which is different to that of HSE. We are the only H&S site offering the first social network enabling our users to upload and share their documents, they have the ability to remove their document when they like. We as a provider offer high standard free templates to help business comply with law, eg risk assessment templates, wcich contain the necessary fields and just need to be completed by the business to thier needs. We provide the first ever H&S chat room, which cannot be found anywhere else. We provide more news than anyone on H&S accidents and prosecutions all on one webpage. We provide legal guidance in lay terms understandable to everyone.

We use advance technology making the website appealing and user friendly.

Soon we'll provide a free place for employers to advertise H&S jobs and and H&S professionals a place to upload their CV's.

I think you will find we have a lot to offer to existing and new businesses in helping them fulfill their legal requirements. I hope you found this useful.

Regards

Abdul

[fisicx]

I do health and safety as part on my job. I can get everthing I need from the HSE website (including forms).

If I wanted to post my CV I would do with an employment agency/website.

As to the chatroom/social networking - why?

You also note the use of advanced technology to make the site appealing and user friendly. The site fails just about every accessiblity test, is unworkable using a PDA and, as already suggested requires, me to login to get to any of the information.

There is no incentive for anyone to use you. What is your USP?

[abs1984]

Thanks for your response, i work for one of the biggest companies in my sector turning over in the region of 45 million pounds per year, so i suppose your method of working will we dependant on what business you run and to what extent you what to dedicate H&S resources to.

Id also like to say you do NOT get templates from HSE where by you can complete risk assessments on line, eg in excel, you will get the reporting forms eg RIDDOR but not online templates.

Again the point i would like to make is the CV section is a place fopr potential employers to go to rather than employees posting on job centre plus etc which is not really a dedicated area. H&S is a specialist area, and you'll notice jobs are a problems if you refer to the sources on the internet and you know the H&S industry. Again ours is free, so if it wants to be used by someone, its there, but not an absolute requirement.

Social chat room is very important, in the H&S field its all about comunication, i have both a law degree and H&S degree and still need to communicate with people, and find contact in your sector is sometime difficult and takes up necessary time resources.

I do not know what background you come from or what level of H&S you require in your business, but our website is their to cater both business and H&S professionals.

The website is not designed for PDA hence its inacesibility, however again this is dependant on the phone you use with currently have limited abilites unless you have something like the nokia N95, which presents the internet pages like for like. With no disrespect i have had a look at your profile and you are a web designer, i would like to state that the people developming my site are a very large company ( larger than yours) and have done work for many reputable organisation, i have had a look at your portfolio and all your designs are standard projects, and i would appreciate it if you could point me to a website which uses the combination of technology and graphics that my website contains.

Registration is a process for all websites including the one you are using fisicx! and again may i say you only require a user name and password.

[abs1984]

also please vist the following site to confirm that my website is w3c compliant

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator.html#validate-by-uri

regards

[Susan]

The design is good, just I think the color is too dark for your topic.

[fisicx]

I am sure that you provide an excellent H&S service but it is not me you need to convince. One of the biggest problems you need to overcome is your internet visibility.

At the moment nearly every page requires the visitor to login - this includes the search engines. This means your site cannot ever be fully indexed by the search engines. You mention that I need to login to this forum - that is correct, but only to post, I can see every single forum and read every post without logging in. That's the difference between this forum and your site.

Adding CV's for potential employers is an admirable cause, but unless potential employers know about your site and can access the information you provide without registering then this cause is doomed to failure. They will not know about your service unless you tell them and you will not be able to rely on the search engines for that.

Just because the compnay that built the site is bigger than me (not too difficult 'cos there's only one of me), doesn't mean thay have done you any favours. The page is bloated with javascript, most of which is not necessary, all your page titles are identical which will cripple your indexing by the search engines, the layout collapses when you increase the font size, open a sidebar or reduce the window size and you get horizontal scolling and so on.

Just because a site validates doesn't mean it is usable or accessbile. I think the problem stems from the off-the-shelf templete the designer has used, it's a quick fix rather than a bespoke design.

As to the PDA issue, mobile computing is growing rapidly, if your site is inaccessible to these users then that's an awful lot of potential clients you have lost.

You mention the lack of templates from the HSE site, my mistake, all I do is search for a suitable form using a search engine, download and fill it in. There arer thousands of suitable forms I can get again without registering with a website.

Every organisation has a H&S representative, they go on the necessary courses run by H&S specialists but for most firms the HSE can provide them with all the guidance they need. I agree that there are some H&S 'experts' and some processes require specialist H&S training but for the most part H&S is just part of the job.