Most supermarket chains have a clear health and safety policy regarding practice within their stores.

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Tesco says that it is committed to protecting the health and safety of its employees, customers and visitors to the stores. It says that it aims to eliminate preventable accidents and ill health and reduce the rate of reportable accidents. The company also has a

risk management process

to identify and minimise any risks across the business and says that every Tesco store measures health and safety performance and reports on it three times a year.

Safety campaigns

are also launched at various times throughout the year to look at further ways to improve safety in stores.

Tesco says: "We have successfully reduced the rate of reportable staff accidents in our stores over the past five years. We are introducing improved measures for assessing risk and reducing accident numbers as the size and nature of the business develops."

Sainsbury's says that in 2005/06 it set a target of reducing by 50% its overall colleague reportable accident rate by 2008/09. The company says that it uses 'Talkback' a colleague opinion survey, to assess health and safety nationwide and says that within its retail division 83% believed that health and safety was taken seriously in the workplace.

The company says that its success in taking measures to prevent accidents in the workplace, both to employees and to customers in stores, has led to the company receiving a silver health and safety award by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, for its Store Support Centre.

Sainsbury's also says that it works closely with the Health and Safety Executive on many of its corporate campaigns to improve standards and reduce accidents. It says that campaigns have been held on slips and trips, manual handling and moving goods. The company has also introduced a new "Reporting Wrongdoing" policy with an external number so that colleagues can note mispractices in confidence.

Morrisons says that it is the company's intention to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all its employees, customers and visitors and that a comprehensive health and safety manual is in place for each division of the company. It says that each of the manuals puts practices in place to ensure that the company complies with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and that the group's policy is approved by its executive board.

Morrisons adds that it has adopted targets set by the Health and Safety Commission for the reduction of workplace accidents and work related ill health and it is on course to meet those targets. It says: "Health and safety performance is monitored to ensure continuous improvement in all areas".

Last year ASDA signed up to the Constructing Better Health client charter which promoted a strong occupational health culture in its retail development programme and which aimed to improve the health of the construction industry workforce.

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