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Article: Ergonomics Guidelines Announced for Retail Grocery Stores
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- Professional Safety
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright American Society of Safety Engineers Jul 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ERGONOMICS GUIDELINES
OSHA has released industry-specific guidelines for the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in grocery stores. The agency's Guidelines for Retail Grocery Stores provides practical recommendations to help grocery store employers and employees reduce the number and severity of MSD-related injuries in these workplaces.
"Working with trade associations, labor organizations and individual grocery stores, we have developed these guidelines which are practical tools that have been shown to reduce work-related injuries in retail grocery stores," says Henshaw. "It has been a pleasure to work with organizations that strive to improve workplace safety and health and ...