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#1 Posted : 16 May 2004 19:17:00(UTC)
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Posted By Stuart James Gornall My wife works on a supermarket checkout for a large company with scant regard for health and safety. Recently the company changed the work process from manually keying in the prices to scanning the product. This involves repetitive movement of the upper arms. Subsequently several employees have developed various upper limb disorders ranging from tennosynivitis to carpal tunnel syndrome. My wife is now starting to display several symptoms.After several requests the company have done nothing to help aleviate the situation.I have contacted the relevant enforcing authority who are curently investigating the complaint. However to put the pressure on I am carrying out my own research in order to try to get the company to provide a safe working environment. I just wonder if anybody has come across a similar situation and could provide anything that could help. This is a serious situation which is directly affecting somebody close to me as well as many others.
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#2 Posted : 16 May 2004 19:25:00(UTC)
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter Stuart There is an HSE document which might be useful: http://www.hse.gov.uk/lau/lacs/58-1.htm Paul
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#3 Posted : 16 May 2004 20:03:00(UTC)
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Posted By John Murphy You can obtain a lot of information from the RSI Asscoiation at http://rsi.websitehostin...ervices.co.uk/index.asp. Good luck. John
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#4 Posted : 17 May 2004 15:00:00(UTC)
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Posted By Robert S Woods USDAW is the trade union that represents supermarket workers www.usdaw.org.uk They have lots of information on legislation and best practice. You could also ring Pete Kilbane at Worksafe 01535 664462. Worksafe provides free occupational health and safety advice for workers.www.worksafe.org.uk Bob Woods
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