OSHA is recommending that major retailers set up crowd management plans as a safety precaution to protect workers from being injured or trampled by customers on Black Friday. OSHA's recommendations are in response to increased shopping that have caused dangerous workplace hazards, even leading to a worker being trampled to death in 2008, on the busiest shopping day of the year.
OSHA is recommending that each store's crowd management plan includes on-site security guards, barricades for customers as they wait in line to enter the store, an explanation to the customer as to how they can enter the store safely, limits on how many customers can enter the store, and an emergency plan when something goes awry. OSHA's guideline also advises stores to plan ahead and have the proper amount of staffing to manage the crowds, and urges stores to have a separate entrances for staff so that they can enter and exit the store safely.
OSHA issued these guidelines so that staff and employees can enjoy the busiest shopping day of the year in the safest manner possible.
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