Are fall incidents a 'thing' in retail or at work?

As healthcare faces increasing pressure due to a surge in demand, staff shortages, and rising costs, we must take proactive steps to prevent a standstill. While many well-known measures are being implemented as we speak, there is a growing interest in exploring how retail can contribute to alleviating this pressure. This is an ongoing explorartion I have on the 'Health meets retail' program, tapping into delocalization of healthcare, nudging customers into a more healthy lifestyle, offering affordable health food etc.

One question that particularly concerns me is fall prevention. Research shows that 50% of falls occur in and around the home, which means the other 50% happen outside this area.

Given our goal of keeping people, especially the elderly, mobile, engaged, and healthy, it's crucial to ensure that obstacles and hazards are minimized in places like shops, supermarkets, and pharmacies and otherwise take encouraging measure for citizens to 'go-out'.

So we would love to learn from you :

Together with the Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport (The Dutch Ministry of health wellfare and Sports) we aim to explore this area further, raise awareness, and consider potential solutions if the issue proves to be significant.

We are calling on retailers, shop owners, ambulance services, employees and citizens:

1. Have you encountered hazardous situations or fall incidents in retail settings?
2. If so, what actions have you, or have been, taken in response?
3. Do you have suggestions to prevent these incidents.
4. As a side topic, please also respond if you have had a fall incident at work.

We would love to learn from you in the comments below!