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Staying Safe on Black Friday

Every year it seems like Christmas shopping season kicks off earlier and earlier. When I went to pick up Halloween candy last month, I could have sworn there were more candy canes than candy corn. (Much to my dismay since I’m probably one of the only people on the planet who actually likes candy corn. I should have bought some anyway just to confuse trick-or-treaters.) But despite retailers’ seeming desire to start the Christmas shopping season in the summer, the traditional beginning of the season is still the day after Thanksgiving, otherwise known as Black Friday.

Unfortunately in recent years, Black Friday has come to stand less for the effect is has on retail balance sheets and more for the incidents of tragedy that have befallen shoppers caught up in the buying frenzy. Reports of injuries, tramplings and worse have become all too common. One of the most infamous incidents occurred two years ago when a seasonal worker at a Valley Stream, New York Walmart was trampled to death after shoppers broke down the doors to the store in their rabid hunt for bargains.

This year, in an effort to prevent another tragedy OSHA has sent a letter to the CEOs of 14 national retailers, including Walmart, Target, Macy’s and Best Buy, encouraging them to take proper precautions to protect the safety of workers and customers. OSHA also included a fact sheet entitled, “Crowd Management Safety Tips for Retailers.”

OSHA has prepared these guidelines to help employers and store owners avoid injuries during the holiday shopping season, or other events where large crowds may gather. Crowd management planning should begin in advance of events that are likely to draw large crowds, and crowd management, pre-event setup, and emergency situation management should be part of event planning.

OSHA tips concern the proper training of workers, suggestions for the use of barricades to control the flow of crowds and the importance of communication with customers, employees and security personnel.

The National Retail Federation expects that 138 million shoppers will head out to the stores on Black Friday this year, up from the 134 million that had planned to go out last year. It’s bound to be chaotic but let’s make sure that the holiday season kicks off safely.

And if you want to pick me up something nice, I won’t mind.

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Five Tips for Preventing Workplace Injuries

Jeffrey Quinn of New Jersey Today wrote a piece the other day featuring five tips for preventing workplace injuries. Four of them focus on driving, weather, protective gear and worksite tidiness, and Quinn’s advice in those areas is great — and quick to read.

But the one major takeaway here is this:

Report Dangers – Reporting unsafe situations is one way you can improve the safety of your worksite.  For example, if you come across a chemical spill and cannot identify the substance, do not touch or move it. Barricade the area and report the spill. Your worksite should have a spill response plan that includes emergency phone numbers, evacuation procedures, containment instructions and proper cleanup processes.

Additionally, keep all working and walking surfaces free of spills and debris.

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Spilled coffee in a stairwell or an electrical cord stretched across a walkway can lead to slips, trips and falls. Be proactive and report the danger. Watch where you are walking and exercise care given the conditions.

These days, apathy seemingly reigns supreme. In this economy, people are over-worked, under-resourced and, often, over-educated for their jobs with no short-term hope of career advancement. So they are loathe to go the extra mile to do things that help the common good as long as it doesn’t negatively affect them.

And this goes down to the level of someone seeing a spilled coffee, stepping over it and then simply continuing on with their day. It would be very easy for the worker to tell someone.

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But often they don’t. It wasn’t an issue for them and it’s not their job to mop the floor, so the guy just shakes his head, bemoans the person who has failed to clean it up and goes back to his desk.

Here’s the part in the post where you could use some advice on how to help overcome that apathy.

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Unfortunately, I have no idea.

Let us know how you do it.

The FDA and Food Fraud

In our April issue (which will be available online tomorrow available now), we feature an article about how the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is ramping up its enforcement efforts of late. Our May issue will discuss how OSHA is doing the same. And this post last week talks about how the EPA is planning to re-new its mission to safeguarding the nation’s drinking water.

Will the FDA be the next watchdog to flex its muscle?

Some think it should, specifically when it comes to “food fraud.”

Increasingly, companies, retailers and consumers are pressuring the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to act on the rising incidence of food fraud, the Washington Post reports.

Examples of food being mislabeled abound: “sheep’s milk” cheese really being made from cow’s milk; “Sturgeon caviar” being Mississippi paddlefish; grouper, red snapper and flounder actually catfish fillets from Vietnam; and honey diluted with sugar beets or corn syrup sold as 100 percent pure.

This type of “food fraud” has been found in fish, fruit juice, maple syrup, olive oil, spices, spirits, vinegar and wine. Those affected by the fraud include consumers and companies such as E&J Gallo and Heinz USA.

Rhetorically, the FDA definitely wants to increase its ability to monitor such violations, but the past few years have seen so many incidents of rampant — and at times deadly — food quality issues that the regulator has instead focused on that side of things.

And rightly so. I mean, look at this list of recalls in just November 2009 alone.

Still, one issue being more troubling doesn’t mean that the other one isn’t also a threat.

“We put so much emphasis on food and purity of ingredients and where they come from,” said Mark Stoeckle, a physician and DNA expert at Rockefeller University. “But then there are things selling that are not what they say on the label. There’s an important issue here in terms of economics and consumer safety.”

The CPSC and OSHA have both needed more funding and resources to expand their mission. Does the FDA deserve the same? In a vacuum, of course. And food fraud has the potential to cause some very serious health and safety problems.

But in a still-shaky economy and with a new, historic commitment to health care, can every agency in Washington really expect to get a higher budget?

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OSHA Addressing H1N1 Ahead of Fall Return

The flu season is expected to peak in October, just one day away. Because of this, OSHA is holding a forum on preparing your workplace for the expected outbreak of the H1N1 virus. “Workplace Preparedness: How Small Businesses Can Prepare for H1N1 Influenza” will be held tomorrow, September 30th from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Department of Labor’s Frances Perkins Building auditorium in Washington. As the news release states:

Expert panelists will discuss the differences between seasonal and pandemic influenza and explore work practices that employers can adopt to prevent the spread of the virus. Panelists will also examine strategies for assessing workplace exposure, communicating risks to workers and planning for a more severe influenza pandemic. Additionally, participants will receive guidance on continuing operations if a business experiences staff absenteeism.

In the news release, assistant secretary of labor for OSHA Jordan Barab said “The H1N1 virus could have a major impact on the nation during the flu season. Planning is critical, and this forum underscores the importance of employers taking the necessary steps to protect workers from this threat.

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russell@dol.gov or 202.693.2532. If you can’t attend, but want more information on pandemic preparedness, check out OSHA’s pandemic page, which provides general pandemic information, links to publications addressing workplace preparedness and FAQ’s on the subject.

How are you preparing? We look forward to reading your responses.

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