Resources
Includes publications, research, case studies and useful links.
Publications
- Managing musculoskeletal disorders in checkout work
- Preventing slips and trips at work
- Slips and trips - the importance of floor cleaning
- Assessing the slip resistance of flooring
- Getting to grips with manual handling: a short guide
- Manual handling assessment charts
- Are you making the best use of lifting and handling aids
- Handling newspaper and magazine bundles
- Managing musculoskeletal disorders in checkout work
- Moving food and drink: manual handling solutions for the food and drinks industries
- Work-related violence case studies: managing the risk in smaller businesses
Case studies
- Supermarket fined after worker slipped in hot oil
- Slip risks on a supermarket's smooth floor - sensible long and short-term action
- Matting still wet when shopping centre opened to the public
- Slippery store entrance in wet weather - supermarket entrance matting
- Costly supermarket slips
- Carpet company fails to maintain their own carpets
- Raised plinths cause trips at electrical retailer
- Work related violence case studies
Research
- Safety in roll containers
- Safe Transport of Roll Cages RR862
- Typical manual handling activities performed in retail carpet stores: the risk and how to reduce them
- Furniture distribution guidance: Warehouse to delivery
- Baseline evaluation of awareness, knowledge and attitudes held by industry to inform the slips and trips priority programme evaluation