Resources
Includes publications, research, case studies and useful links.
Publications
- Managing musculoskeletal disorders in checkout work[1]
- Preventing slips and trips at work (PDF) [2]
- Slips and trips - the importance of floor cleaning (PDF) [3]
- Assessing the slip resistance of flooring[4]
- Getting to grips with manual handling: a short guide (PDF) [5]
- Manual handling assessment charts[6]
- Are you making the best use of lifting and handling aids (PDF) [7]
- Handling newspaper and magazine bundles[8]
- Managing musculoskeletal disorders in checkout work[9]
- Moving food and drink: manual handling solutions for the food and drinks industries[10]
- Work-related violence case studies: managing the risk in smaller businesses[11]
Case studies
- Supermarket fined after worker slipped in hot oil[12]
- Slip risks on a supermarket's smooth floor - sensible long and short-term action[13]
- Matting still wet when shopping centre opened to the public[14]
- Slippery store entrance in wet weather - supermarket entrance matting[15]
- Costly supermarket slips[16]
- Carpet company fails to maintain their own carpets[17]
- Raised plinths cause trips at electrical retailer[18]
- Work related violence case studies[19]
Research
- Safety in roll containers (PDF) [20]
- Safe Transport of Roll Cages RR862[21]
- Typical manual handling activities performed in retail carpet stores: the risk and how to reduce them (PDF) [22]
- Furniture distribution guidance: Warehouse to delivery (PDF) [23]
- Baseline evaluation of awareness, knowledge and attitudes held by industry to inform the slips and trips priority programme evaluation (PDF) [24]