Workplace Hazards and Prevention Options From a Nonrandom Sample of Retail Trade Businesses

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• Alternative Title:
  Int J Occup Saf Ergon
• Personal Author:
  Anderson, Vern Putz ; Chun, Heekyoung
• Description:
  Employer commitment is a key factor in an effective safety program, yet limited research has focused on the safety priorities of retail store managers. To address this, the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recruited 4 experienced ergonomists, who met and interviewed 9 retailers in different parts of the eastern USA. The reports from the 9 interviews were used to document the hazards facing retailers and the interventions they attempted. Those interviewed were managers/owners of establishments that ranged from a small bakery with 11 employees to a supermarket with 85 or more employees. The main hazards across all establishments included overexertion, contact-with-objects, and falls-to-the-same-level. We also compared the retailers' perceptions of safety hazards with injuries from actual hazards as supplied by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This report provides insight into the retailers' perceptions of safety hazards as well as their commitment to the prevention of workplace injuries.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Commerce Human Engineering Lifting Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Perception Physical Exertion Safety Management Workplace
• Source:
  Int J Occup Saf Ergon. 20(1):181-195.
• Pubmed ID:
  24629880
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4598048
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Name as Subject:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (U.S.)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a06f3324c34051da1dbc2c9b75421ea020f964fdf404a55772efb4ab8a0a43ca
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/34861/cdc_34861_DS1.pdf
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