Resources relevant to the retail industry

Free leaflets

• Preventing slips and trips at work [PDF 69KB]
• Slips and trips - the importance of floor cleaning [PDF 61KB]
• Assessing the slip resistance of flooring [PDF 321KB]
• Getting to grips with manual handling: a short guide [PDF 436KB]
• Manual handling assessment charts [PDF 204KB]
• Are you making the best use of lifting and handling aids [PDF 542KB]
• Roll cages and wheeled racks in the food and drinks industries: Reducing manual handling injuries [PDF 28KB]
• Handling the news: advice for newsagents and employees on safe handling of bundles [PDF 112KB]

Priced publications

• Checkouts and musculoskeletal disorders

Example risk assessments and case studies

Example risk assessments:

• Cleaning large retail premises
• Convenience store/newsagent
• Off licence
• Cleaning a shopping centre concourse

Work related violence case studies:

• Work-related violence toolkit for retail and licensed premises
• Convenience store
• Small electrical retail company

Priced guidance available from HSE Books

• Manual handling: guidance on the regulations
• Manual handling: solutions you can handle
• Moving food and drink: manual handling solutions for the food and drinks industries
• Rolling safely along: your guide to roll cage safety (video)
• Preventing violence to retail staff
• Work-related violence case studies: managing the risk in smaller businesses

Research

• Safety in roll containers [PDF 1.5MB]
• Typical manual handling activities performed in retail carpet stores: the risk and how to reduce them [PDF 592KB]
• Ergonomic aspects of escalators used in retail organisations [PDF 4.9MB]
• Baseline evaluation of awareness, knowledge and attitudes held by industry to inform the slips and trips priority programme evaluation [PDF 63KB]
• Furniture distribution guidance: Warehouse to delivery [PDF 331KB]

Other information

• Safer surfaces to walk on: reducing the risk of slipping, CIRIA [PDF 21MB]