In 2005/06 the retail industry reported 13,000 work related accidents. Over 2000 of these accidents were classified as major injuries such as fractures.
Common types of accidents:
The Health and Safety Executive has developed a shop risk assessment tool which allows those working in small low-risk shops to do their risk assessment quickly and easily. It enables you to produce a tailored assessment by selecting the relevant hazards and thinking about how you control them.
Take action to prevent or control work-related violence.
HSE and local authorities have worked in partnership to develop this toolkit to help you reduce the risk of work-related violence in your licensed or retail premises.
This is HSE's current campaign on the prevention of slips, trips and falls in the workplace. One focus of the campaign is stopping slips in food retail.
HSE and local authorities (LAs) are responsible for enforcing health and safety legislation applicabale to the retail industry.
