NIOSH Wholesale and Retail Trade Program [2017]

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This document has been superseded and the new version can be found here. What are our priorities? The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Wholesale and Retail Trade (WRT) Program works with partners in industry, labor, trade associations, professional organizations, and academia. The program focuses on these areas among wholesale and retail trade workers: 1. Reducing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). 2. Reducing workplace violence. 3. Preventing injuries from slips, trips and falls. 4. Reducing motor vehicle-related injuries. What do we do? 1. Use national surveillance sources to identify risk factors responsible for days away from work related to our four priority areas. 2. Establish partnerships with safety and health professionals, trade and labor organizations, businesses and academic institutions to do research to better understand those risk factors and develop interventions. 3. Evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of engineering controls and prevention methods to reduce injuries in priority areas. 4. Create evidence-based guidance documents, tools, and other resources to help employers and workers prevent injuries in our four priority areas. 5. Partner with trade associations to distribute NIOSH guidance documents, tools, and other resources to employers, who use the information to take steps to prevent worker injuries. What have we accomplished? 1. Launched Young Retail Workers topic page. Each year thousands of young retail workers are injured, and some fatally. This resource informs young retail workers about hazards and how to prevent them, to protect themselves and co-workers. 2. Published quarterly WRT news bulletin, which features ideas about prevention and other information. 3. Expanded distribution of the news bulletin via WRT business associations to their members to keep them engaged in the NIOSH WRT program and approximately 3,000 U.S. Chambers of Commerce for outreach to small business. 4. Published new WRT webpage with program information and resources. What's next? 1. Publish "Ergonomic Best Practices for Product Packaging in Small Businesses," a document for employers and workers who package goods to help prevent MSDs. 2. Publish "New Retail Workers: Safety and Health at Work," designed to educate new retail workers about risk factors for MSDs, falls, and violence in retail stores. 3. Collaborate with Safe-Skilled-Ready Workforce to incorporate the eight core competencies into young retail worker information. 4. Launch project on strategies to prevent motor vehicle injuries among WRT workers in collaboration with NIOSH Center for Workers' Compensation Studies and Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation. 5. Design and publish new retail employee informational products, such as infographics, pamphlets, brochures, and posters, using content from the New Retail Employer Safety and Health at Work product. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Automobiles Commerce Health Promotion Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Health Services Safety Safety Management

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• Keywords:
  Retail workers; Wholesale and Retail Trade; Musculoskeletal disorders; MSD; Slips, trips, and falls; STF; Motor vehicles; Injury prevention
• Source:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-153, 2017 Jun; :1
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Handout/Flyer
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OPPE - Office of Program Planning and Evaluation ; OD - Office of the Director ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049970
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/46392/cdc_46392_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 141.46 KB ]