Advanced search
Publication Cover
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Volume 7, 2010 - Issue 9
Submit an article Journal homepage
380
Views
21
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Workers’ Experience of Slipping in U.S. Limited-Service Restaurants

Santosh K. Verma Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts; Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts
,
Wen-Ruey Chang Center for Physical Ergonomics, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts
,
Theodore K. Courtney Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts; Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
,
David A. Lombardi Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts; Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
,
Yueng-Hsiang Huang Center for Behavioral Sciences, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts
,
Melanye J. Brennan Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts
,
Murray A. Mittleman Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
&
Melissa J. Perry Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
 show all
Pages 491-500 | Published online: 14 Jun 2010

Citations (21)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (3)

Wen-Ruey Chang, Sylvie Leclercq, Thurmon E. Lockhart & Roger Haslam. (2016) State of science: occupational slips, trips and falls on the same level . Ergonomics 59:7, pages 861-883.
Read now
John M. Flach, John S. Carroll, Marvin J. Dainoff & W. Ian Hamilton. (2015) Striving for safety: communicating and deciding in sociotechnical systems. Ergonomics 58:4, pages 615-634.
Read now
Santosh K. Verma, Zhe Zhao, Theodore K. Courtney, Wen-Ruey Chang, David A. Lombardi, Yueng-Hsiang Huang, Melanye J. Brennan & Melissa J. Perry. (2014) Duration of slip-resistant shoe usage and the rate of slipping in limited-service restaurants: results from a prospective and crossover study. Ergonomics 57:12, pages 1919-1926.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (18)

Kurt E. Beschorner, Arnab Chanda, Brian E. Moyer, Alexander Reasinger, Sarah C. Griffin & Isaiah M. Johnston. (2023) Validating the ability of a portable shoe-floor friction testing device, NextSTEPS, to predict human slips. Applied Ergonomics 106, pages 103854.
Crossref
Debora Pereira, Arianna Bozzato, Paolo Dario & Gastone Ciuti. (2022) Towards Foodservice Robotics: A Taxonomy of Actions of Foodservice Workers and a Critical Review of Supportive Technology. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 19:3, pages 1820-1858.
Crossref
Eve M. Nagler, Elisabeth A. Stelson, Melissa Karapanos, Lisa Burke, Lorraine M. Wallace, Susan E. Peters, Karina Nielsen & Glorian Sorensen. (2021) Using Total Worker Health® Implementation Guidelines to Design an Organizational Intervention for Low-Wage Food Service Workers: The Workplace Organizational Health Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18:17, pages 9383.
Crossref
HyeYoung Cho, Michel J. H. Heijnen, Bruce A. Craig & Shirley Rietdyk. (2021) Falls in young adults: The effect of sex, physical activity, and prescription medications. PLOS ONE 16:4, pages e0250360.
Crossref
Pia Markkanen, Susan E. Peters, Michael Grant, Jack T. Dennerlein, Gregory R. Wagner, Lisa Burke, Lorraine Wallace & Glorian Sorensen. (2021) Development and application of an innovative instrument to assess work environment factors for injury prevention in the food service industry. Work 68:3, pages 641-651.
Crossref
Madeleine Dulon, Dana Wendeler, Claudia Westermann & Albert Nienhaus. (2020) Arbeitsunfälle und Berufskrankheiten bei Beschäftigten in Küchenbetrieben in Gesundheitsdienst und WohlfahrtspflegeWork-related injuries and occupational diseases among kitchen workers in healthcare services and social welfare. Zentralblatt für Arbeitsmedizin, Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie 70:5, pages 215-221.
Crossref
Julia Lippert, Howard Rosing & Felipe Tendick‐Matesanz. (2020) The health of restaurant work: A historical and social context to the occupational health of food service. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 63:7, pages 563-576.
Crossref
Srinivas Konda, Ibraheem S. Al‐Tarawneh, Audrey A. Reichard, Hope M. Tiesman, Steven J. Wurzelbacher, Lynne E. Pinkerton, Alysha R. Meyers, Scott A. Hendricks, Chih‐Yu Tseng, Michael P. Lampl & David C. Robins. (2019) Workers’ compensation claims for traumatic brain injuries among private employers—Ohio, 2001‐2011. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 63:2, pages 156-169.
Crossref
R. P. Martins, J. Duarte & A. Torres Marques. 2019. Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health. Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health 89 96 .
Marvin J. Dainoff. (2017) A sociotechnical approach to occupational safety. Work 56:3, pages 359-370.
Crossref
Miskeen Ali Gopang, Murlidhar Nebhwani, Awais Khatri & Hussain Bux Marri. (2017) An assessment of occupational health and safety measures and performance of SMEs: An empirical investigation. Safety Science 93, pages 127-133.
Crossref
Kari Dunning, Ashutosh Mani & Amit Bhattacharya. 2016. Fall Prevention and Protection. Fall Prevention and Protection 223 240 .
David I Swedler, Santosh K Verma, Yueng-Hsiang Huang, David A Lombardi, Wen-Ruey Chang, Melayne Brennan & Theodore K Courtney. (2015) A structural equation modelling approach examining the pathways between safety climate, behaviour performance and workplace slipping. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 72:7, pages 476-481.
Crossref
Alberto J. Caban-Martinez, Theodore K. Courtney, Wen-Ruey Chang, David A. Lombardi, Yueng-Hsiang Huang, Melanye J. Brennan, Melissa J. Perry, Jeffrey N. Katz & Santosh K. Verma. (2014) Preventing Slips and Falls through Leisure-Time Physical Activity: Findings from a Study of Limited-Service Restaurants. PLoS ONE 9:10, pages e110248.
Crossref
Penpatra Sripaiboonkij & Sasitorn Taptakarnporn. (2014) Health Effects on Canteen Staff Working in a University Canteen. Health 06:18, pages 2392-2398.
Crossref
Yasuo HARUYAMA, Hiroe MATSUZUKI, Shigeru TOMITA, Takashi MUTO, Takashi HARATANI, Shigeki MUTO & Akiyoshi ITO. (2014) Burn and Cut Injuries Related to Job Stress among Kitchen Workers in Japan. Industrial Health 52:2, pages 113-120.
Crossref
Yueng-Hsiang Huang, Santosh K. Verma, Wen-Ruey Chang, Theodore K. Courtney, David A. Lombardi, Melanye J. Brennan & Melissa J. Perry. (2012) Management commitment to safety vs. employee perceived safety training and association with future injury. Accident Analysis & Prevention 47, pages 94-101.
Crossref
Yueng-Hsiang Huang, Santosh K. Verma, Wen-Ruey Chang, Theodore K. Courtney, David A. Lombardi, Melanye J. Brennan & Melissa J. Perry. (2012) Supervisor vs. employee safety perceptions and association with future injury in US limited-service restaurant workers. Accident Analysis & Prevention 47, pages 45-51.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.