Grocery Stores
Depending on the task, examples of safety hazards that can harm workers in grocery stores include:
- Heavy lifting, prolonged standing, awkward postures, repetitive motion, and other physical stressors
- Slips, trips, and falls
- Hazardous chemicals (cleaning chemicals, carbon monoxide gas from fuel-powered forklifts or floor buffers)
- Tools, equipment, and machinery with dangerous moving mechanical parts (slicers, meat bandsaws, balers)
- Assaults, robberies, and other violent behavior
Rules
- Core Rules (Chapter 296-800, WAC)
- Forklifts and Other Powered Industrial Trucks (Chapter 296-863, WAC)
- Globally Harmonized System for Hazard Communication (Chapter 296-901, WAC)
- Lockout/Tagout (Chapter 296-803, WAC)
- Machine Safety (Chapter 296-806, WAC)
Enforcement Policies
Videos
- Box Cutter Safety: Supermarket Series
- Forklift Operations: Carry the Load (English/Spanish)
- L&I Classics v.1 (Ergonomics, Retail Safety)
- Manual Material Handling (English/Spanish)
- Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs Video Training Program
- Violence In The Workplace : Communication Skills for Retail
Training Materials
Self-paced
- Biological Hazards for Janitors, Custodians and Housekeepers
- Latex Allergies
- Lift height and risk of injury
- Machine Safeguarding
- Meat Cutter Safety
- Preventing Sprains and Strains in the Warehouse
- Workplace Violence Prevention - Module 1
- Workplace Violence Prevention - Module 2
Publications, Handouts, Checklists
- Danger of working around hot-oil fryers also available in Spanish
- Department Store Employee Crushed in a Baling Machine (CDC/NIOSH)
- Janitor Using Propane Buffer Killed by Carbon Monoxide (CDC/NIOSH)
- Pharmacy (OSHA eTool)
- Violence Against Pharmacists (CDC)
- Worker Safety Series: Warehousing (OSHA)
- Working in a standing position (COOHS)
- Young retail workers (CDC)