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The Product Merchandising Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Manual handling injuries
- tripping over objects
- exposure to dust and fumes
- 2. Transporting products
- Vehicle accidents
- inaccurate item counts
- incorrect storage
- 3. Stock taking
- Physical strain
- cuts from packaging
- 4. Display set-up
- Manual handling injuries
- falling objects
- 5. Visual Merchandise Layout
- Slips
- trips
- and falls
- overhead work
- 6. Product arrangements
- Repeated motion injuries
- manual handling injuries
- 7. Pricetag Adjustment
- Eye strain
- paper cuts
- 8. Inventory Control
- Heavy lifting
- improperly stacked goods
- 9. Customer Interaction
- Infectious disease
- aggressive customers
- 10. Cash Handling
- Ergonomic issues
- potential robbery
- 11. Closing procedures
- Slipping on floor
- accidents due to fatigue
- 12. Waste disposal
- Infections from waste
- back injury from heavy waste bins
- 13. Emergency response
- Panic during emergency
- improper use of emergency equipment
- 14. Clean up
- Exposure to cleaning chemicals
- slips on wet surface
- 15. End of shift review
- Fatigue
- emotional distress from difficult interactions
- 16. Transportation of stock
- Vehicle accidents
- Heavy lifting
- 17. Unloading of goods
- Manual handling injuries
- Improper stacking
- 18. Placement on shelves
- Repeated motion injury
- falling objects
- 19. Product write-offs
- Sharp objects
- manual handling injuries
- 20. Faulty product management
- Electrocution
- chemical exposure