The site has 5 main areas:

• News
• Incident Alerts
• Discussions
• Resources
• Sharing

Throughout the site, the relevance of individual content to the four strategic priority areas is indicated by coloured 'temple' icons:

• Recognising hazards and reducing risk (GREEN)
• Personal ownership for safety (YELLOW)
• Asset integrity (BLUE)
• Leadership, communication and co-operation (RED)

You can navigate to any of these areas using the navigation bar at the top of the screen. When viewing a page, you can print or email the address of the current page using the printer and envelope icons below the left end of the navigation bar. At the bottom of the page you will find links to your personal profile, our contact details, our Terms & Conditions, plus some helpful code for webmasters.

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To register at the site, click the link that says, “Not registered? Click here”. You will then be taken to the registration page. You will need to enter your details and choose options from a list of interests. To select multiple interests, hold down the Ctrl key while clicking on the areas in which you are interested in. If you are not interested in any of the options, simply tick the “Other” box. To choose which email notifications you wish to receive, hold down Ctrl while clicking on the types of notification that you wish to receive. By doing this you will be notified by email whenever new or update content is added in an area that you have requested notifications in. The areas that you can request notifications in are:

• News
• Incidents
• Resources
• Discussions

If you don’t want to receive newsletter emails from us, just tick the box at the base of the profile.

After filling in your details, press “Create User”. If any red star appears next to any boxes, this means that they are not filled in properly and need to be corrected.

If all the fields are correct, the message “Your account has been created successfully. We have sent you an email containing your login details and further instructions” will be displayed. You now need to check your emails to get your login details. After getting these details, it is advisable to change your password to one that you will remember more easily.

If you have any trouble with these steps, please contact the Step Change Support Team.

You can access all content without registering but to contribute to the discussion forums, submit incident alert details and suggest news and resources you will need to register.

When logging-in, you may tick the 'Remember me next time.' box if you wish your username to saved (by means of a 'cookie') on your computer for use when you next visit the site.

IMPORTANT: If you find that a different username to your own is displayed please logout and check with whoever else may have used the computer that they are aware that their username is stored on the PC.

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You can search the whole site while in any part of the site by entering your search terms in the box on the left hand site of the navigation bar, and pressing the “Go” button. You will then be taken to a page that displays the results of your search. At the top of the page, you can see the number of results returned, and if there are more than 10 results returned, a right arrow button to move to the next set of results.

Each result is in the form of a title and a short description. Clicking on the title will take you to the full article or web page.

The option to search just Incident Alerts is available using the first drop-down option for Incidents in the navigation bar.

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The news section is split into 5 sections:

• Meetings - Details of previous meetings
• Forthcoming events - Events that have not yet happened
• Last 30 days - News items published in the last 30 days
• Last 90 days - News items published in the last 90 days
• All news - All news less than a year old
• Archive (more than a year old) - All news more than 1 year old
• E-zines - Details of all our previous email newsletters

Each of these sections can be reached from the navigational bar at the top of the page.

If you are logged in, you can suggest new news items from the link on the main news page. If you have trouble when trying to suggest a news item please contact us.

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The alerts area contains details of how to submit new alerts, search existing alerts and discuss alerts. You will be notified by email whenever new or update alerts are available if you have requested notifications for this within your profile (see Registration above).

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The Discussion Area is divided into eight main forums: Risk Awareness, Personal Ownership for Safety, Asset Integrity, Leadership Communication and Co-operation, Environment, Occupational Health, Products and Equipment, and Incident Alert. To read the topics within any forum simply click on the forum heading and you will be presented with a list of 'threads' for that topic. You may then read the 'posts' (individual messages) within a thread by clicking on the thread title. To add a new post to an existing thread click the 'New Post' button (Please note that you need to be logged in to do this). If you have entered something in error or find inappropriate material in the forum please contact us.

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The resources area is divided into two main areas, Data and Publications. You can browse these without being logged-in. Each will usually be updated often, and many contain resources available for download, usually in PDF, Word or PowerPoint formats, which are linked to from within the individual details of a resource.

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The Sharing area is divided into five main areas, Risk, Ownership, Integrity, Leadership Communication & Cooperation, and Networks (which has four sub-areas). You can browse these without being logged-in. Each will usually be updated often, and many contain resources available for download, usually in PDF, Word or PowerPoint formats, which are linked to from within the individual details of a sharing resource.

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