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Successful Habits: Occupational Safety

The Occupational Safety and Healthhelps businesses, small and large alike,
Administration is a U.S. Department of Laboridentify and apply good practices in
organization devoted to the health and safetyergonomics to their workplaces to increase
of American workers. They offer variousthe  safety  and  comfort of their employees.
tactics to reduce MSD's (musculoskeletal
disorders) in the workplace. Their OutreachOSHA releases studies on specific industries
and Assistance program, designed to interfaceto help those industries create a more
with workers directly, is one of four inergonomically satisfying environment for
their "four-pronged" approach to aiding thetheir employees. One such industry is the
prevention of musculoskeletal disorders inRetail Grocery industry. They first
the workplace. The other aspects of theidentified some of the risks particularly
"four-pronged" approach are: Guidelines,associated with employment in the Retail
Enforcement and the National AdvisoryGrocery industry, specifically, force,
Committee.repetition, awkward posture and static
postures. OSHA maintains that these factors
Ergonomics is the science of designing anddramatically increase the chances of the
maintaining products, machines and workRetail Grocery employee of serious injuries
environments that cause the least stress uponand illnesses such as, muscle strains and
the human body and result in the fewestback injuries, tendonitis, carpal tunnel
instances of injury and discomfort. The foursyndrome, rotator cuff injuries,
prongs of the Occupational Safety & HealthEpicondylitis and trigger finger. OSHA
Administration's approach to ergonomic safetyidentifies certain activities, such as
have different areas of focus. Thestacking shelves, that place employee's
Enforcement branch has to do with thebodies in awkward positions that they must
inspections carried out by this and othermaintain for a period of time. Some of their
organizations to assure that worksolutions are as simple as the following,
environments are as safe as they can be. Whenrelated to icing produce. They recommend a
they find organizations that violatebetter ice machine that takes the stress of
standards of ergonomic safety they alertscooping and loading ice away from the worker
authorities and attempt to alter theby letting gravity and the ice machine pour
situation. The National Advisory Committeeice into buckets on a cart below the machine.
branch controls the applications of researchIn this way, the ice is ready to be
related to the study of ergonomics. Thetransported when the worker approaches the
Guidelines branch develops industry specificmachine, cutting any bending, scooping and
guidelines based on statistics related tolifting the employee might otherwise have had
ergonomic industries in the workplace.to perform and making the overall experience
Finally, the Outreach and Assistance branchmore physically pleasant.



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