I have now set up (I think) a weekly email digest to all members, which will go out on Wednesday mornings provided there has been any activity on the Forum in the preceding week. This is all rather experimental as it required techy software knowledge (APIs !) somewhat beyond my pay grade, but I've had a crack at it so fingers crossed. If it doesn't work perfectly the first time I'll amend the settings.
Also, if you wish to NOT receive these weekly digests, you can opt out of them by editing your profile under "Preferences".

As administrator I can create more categories for discussions. At the moment there are only two categories, "Discussion" and "Q&A"; but there could be categories by, for example, industry sector (eg Construction/Manufacturing/Transport); or by risk exposure (eg Height, Hazardous substances, Mobile plant, Psychosocial); or even by geographic region.
Any Forum member can choose to bookmark particular categories, so they are informed whenever there is activity within them (and not be informed for any other categories).
Just a thought - but we don't want to end up with dozens of categories.

A human making an error is not a 'cause'. It is something that happens frequently in everyday work. The question to ask is: how is the work designed so that when the inevitable human errors happen no one gets hurt? That is a much harder question but one that every manager needs to address.

The problem is that concluding "human error" caused an incident begs far too many additional questions.
Humans make errors. That is why it is called "human error". Errors are inevitable and are made every day.
A better approach is to say: I know the people working in Department X will make errors, because they are human. There are some dangerous machines or processes or chemicals used in Department X, so I know the consequences of those errors could be seriously harmful. Therefore, how can the work be designed, in collaboration with those people, so that their inevitable errors cannot result in significant harm?
That puts the onus back where it belongs - on management - to assist the people who face the risks in designing out the possibility that harm could arise from error.
So any organisation which concludes "human error" was the cause of an injury is just flagging its own failure to manage risk.

Great question - but just a note to potential respondents: please keep any recommendations limited to your own organisation's experience (ie: this is a non-commercial forum, so we don't want suppliers of lone worker solutions piling in ...)

I am slightly surprised no one has yet jumped in to say that LTIFR and TRIFR are poorly regarded measures these days. They are backward-looking and are not at all good indicators of where your critical risks are brewing, undetected. Oh well, looks like I've said it.

As Safeguard readers of the last couple of years may recall, I've been quietly pushing the phrase 'healthy work design' as a concise statement of what everyone in H&S is doing, or should be doing. Because safety is a subset of health. Health comes first. And who wouldn't want to introduce themselves as a healthy work designer?
Hence: The NZ Association for Healthy Work Design. Discuss!
(stirs pot and leaves the room quietly by the back door ...)

Kevin, thanks for the kind words. We are all still getting to grips with how this new forum environment works, including myself as administrator and (so far) sole moderator. However I will appoint one or two other moderators in due course. I haven't looked into it in any detail, but I understand the moderator's sanctions range from a slap over the wrist with a wet bus ticket right up to tarring and feathering (non-toxic tar, naturally). Let's hope people can debate and disagree without the use of intemperate language.

We are already approaching 70 members, which is great for Day One!

As a member you can edit your profile (select You/Edit profile) and insert a photo of yourself, or 'Set Preferences' to control when you are notified via email of action on the forum.

You can also mention other members and they will be notified (unless they have turned off this function in their Preferences). Just select the @ symbol as displayed in the options line and then select the member's name. It works, doesn't it @Chris Hewitt ?

You can also like a post, and use #hashtags to start themes and link them across multiple posts.

It'll be exciting to see how members use the functionality available!