Food Service Injuries And Illnesses

Introduction

Both the rate and the number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses needing days away from work decreased from 2006 to 2007, as asserted by the U.S. Department Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 2007 rate was 122 per 10,000 full-time workers, a decrease of 4 per hundred from 2006. There were 1.2 million cases needing days away from work in personal industry out of 4 million total recordable cases as described by the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. The number of days-away-from-work cases in 2007 decreased by 24,630 cases, or 2 per hundred, as in evaluation to 2006 levels. Median days away from work a key measure of the severity of the wound or illness was seven days in 2007, the same as the former three years. When you believe about wound avoidance, manage you believe about the terrain at your bivouac and the types of shoes your campers and staff are wearing? If not, then you should believe again. Educating your campers and staff about befitting footwear, supported by policies and procedures, is an significant way that you can decrease slips and falls at your bivouac while also minimizing the prospect of base, ankle junction, and toe injuries. This course teaches bivouac directors and staff about choosing correct footwear for bivouac activities- a must for all camps



Discussion

The grocery store industry's injury and illness rate6 for total recordable cases was 8.4 per 100 full-time workers in 2000, compared with rates of 5.9 for all retail trade and 6.1 for private industry as a whole. Over the 10-year period from 1991 to 2000, the total recordable case rate for grocery stores decreased from 11.9 per 100 full-time workers to 8.4. Similar downward trends occurred in retail trade and total private industry.

Approximately 187,400 total injury and illness cases were recorded for grocery stores during 2000, with more than half (54 percent) involving cases without lost workdays. Of the 86,000 cases that did involve lost workdays,7 55,000 required workers to miss one or more days of work, while 31,000 required workers to be restricted to light duties or to work a shortened schedule. The rate for all lost workday cases in the grocery store industry was 3.8 per 100 workers in 2000, substantially lower than the 5.2 rate in 1991.

During this period, the rate for cases involving days away from work decreased while the rate for cases with days of restricted work increased. As with the injury and illness rates, similar trends occurred in both retail trade and private industry as a whole. These data may suggest that the type of injuries or illnesses that workers are incurring are becoming less severe, or that establishments are making more effort to reassign workers to other duties in lieu of days off from work.

The data also show that injury and illness rates in the grocery store industry vary considerably among the individual States. For example, the rates for total recordable cases ranged from a high of ...