Workscape FAQ

Here you can find answers to questions about how the board works. Use the links or search box below to find your way around.

Accounts

One account per person. Only one person may use an account. Account sharing is not permitted.

The email address associated with your account must remain current and working.

Accounts with zero posts and no recorded Board visits in 60 days, and accounts not activated after seven days of registration, will be deleted. Accounts with one post or more will not be deleted, to preserve the context of threads; however, all contact information and personally identifying information will be removed from the user profile upon request. Accounts that Board administrators suspect are fraudulent or created by a likely spammer will be banned.

User Names

User names may be a real name or an anonymous handle. User names must not be confusing, misleading, offensive, or inflammatory. User names intended to advertise products or Web sites, or including a domain name, are not permitted.

Threads

Thread titles must be descriptive and meaningful.

So instead of “What do you think?” try “What do you think of the new TDG Amendments?”

Thread titles must not be ambiguous or misleading.

Thread titles and messages can be posted in either English or French.

Please try to keep threads on-topic. Threads should be started in the sub-forum most appropriate for the topic. Follow-up posts should remain somewhat on-topic.

Threads may only be bumped once, and only if they have no replies and are no longer visible on the first page of the sub-forum.

Advertising

Job postings may be posted in the Job Postings sub-forum. Events, seminars, conferences, new Web sites, calls for papers, and so on can be posted in the Announcements sub-forum. Otherwise, advertising is not permitted.

Heated Discussion

Threads about sensitive topics may get heated. Users are free to express their views , provided they remain composed, civil and respectful, even with topics they are passionate about. Flaming, name-calling or making ad hominem attacks against other users is not permitted. Criticize ideas, not people.

Personal Information

The privacy of other users must be respected. Personal information of another user (real name, employer, email address, etc.) cannot be revealed unless they made the information public. Content of e-mail or private messages must not be revealed without consent of the sender.

Work Safe Content

Direct links to potentially not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content is not permitted. All images displayed in posts must be safe for work. NSFW images include nudity, adult themes, graphic and macabre content, and inflammatory content.

Member Postings and Copyright

All postings and other material on the Forum are the copyright of their authors. Users retain the right to republish their own work.

Users grant CCOHS a nonexclusive irrevocable right to reuse posts in any manner seen fit without notice or compensation. Users also grant CCOHS the right to publicly display posts forever, or until staff removes them. Users also assign to CCOHS the right to remove, delete, hide, move, modify for content, quote, or edit any post or thread.

Users assign to other users the right to reference the content of posts, in any manner allowed by the message board software; for example, quotes in message replies.

The content of posts is solely the responsibility and liability of their authors, and not that of CCOHS.

The intent of the Forum is to be a useful resource for occupational health and safety professionals, and those interested in workplace health and safety. Information made available by altruistic users is the most important part of that resource. It is not the responsibility of CCOHS to defend alleged copyright(s) if someone copies content from this board and uses it elsewhere.