Health and Safety in

Retail

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Common Health and Safety risk areas include:

Musculoskeletal Disorders in Checkout Work
Slips, Trips and Falls
Manual Handling
Working at Height

The UK Government has produced an immense amount of guidance for all sectors in the UK and the retail sector specifically. This can be found here and our advisors at John Green can help you through all this and the requirements of applicable Health and Safety law whilst liaising with your Local Authority enforcement body.

Our approach within the retail sector is as follows:

  1. Audit of existing systems, arrangements, and policies with reference to:

    • H&S at Work Act

    • Coronavirus adjustments - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and COVID-19

  2. Production of a Gap Analysis – what’s good and what needs looking at

  3. Amend/write Policies – ensuring compliance

  4. Amend/write Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work – identify risks and what to do about them

  5. Amend/write Control documents

  6. Training planning

  7. Application of external standards

  8. Auditing

  9. On-going support and training

There are some specific laws that require compliance depending on the nature of your services and our advisors at John Green Health and Safety can help you navigate them efficiently and effectively, keeping your customers, employees and members of the public safe.