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United States Air Force Institute for Environment, Safety and
Occupational Health Risk Analysis (AFIERA)
At this site, you will find the AF PREMIER Program, Detailed Ergonomic Assessments, Computerized
Assessment Tools (such as NIOSH Lifting Equation and The Strain Index),
links to other very useful Ergonomic Sites and Ergonomic Power Point Presentations. |
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United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM)
At this site, you will find various policy letters from the Department of the Army. The
Applied Ergonomics course products, publications, and Video and book lender library. |
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Army Medical Surveillance Activity (AMSA)
Select "Lost Duty App" to access the
DoD Military Injury Metrics Web Application.
AMSA is the only organization in the Army that performs comprehensive medical surveillance and routinely
publishes background rates of diseases and injuries for the Army population. |
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U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center
The U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center (CRC) employs Composite Risk Management to try to prevent losses. It connects the dots by serving as a conduit for all loss-related action and information. The CRC is the center point around which all loss-related action takes place. |
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Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program
The Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP) provides assistive
technology and accommodation services to persons with disabilities in the
Department of Defense (DoD), at no cost to individual activities. CAP's
mission is to ensure people with disabilities have equal access to the
information environment and opportunities in DoD. CAP's services make DoD
work environments more accessible to DoD employees with hearing, visual,
dexterity, cognitive and communication impairments. CAP supports electronic
accessibility efforts, which include the requirement in Section 508 being
enforced by the Department of Justice. |
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Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard is a
military, multimission, maritime service and one of the nation’s five Armed
Services. Its mission is to protect the public, the environment, and U.S.
economic interests – in the nation’s ports and waterways, along the coast, on
international waters, or in any maritime region as required to support national
security. |
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Cornell University Ergonomics Web
CUErgo presents information from
Ergonomics research studies and class work by students and faculty in the
Cornell Human Factors and Ergonomics Research Group (CHFERG). This site focuses
on ways to enhance usability by improving the ergonomic design of hardware,
software, and workplaces, to enhance people's comfort, performance and health. |
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CTD Resource Network, Inc.
The CTD Resource Network, Inc. (CTDRN)
is an organization providing educational material and charitable assistance
related to the prevention and treatment of cumulative trauma disorders (also
known as repetitive strain injuries). |
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Defense Commissary Agency (DECA)
DeCA's mission
is to deliver the premier quality of life benefit to the Armed Services
Community – To enhance recruiting, retention and readiness by efficiently
and effectively providing exceptional savings, excellent products and
superior services … EVERYTIME, EVERYPLACE. |
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Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
DFAS personnel understand the Reserve mission’s unique requirements and work with
us on all issues. Through the combined efforts of Air Force Reserve Command
and DFAS personnel we have decreased our unpaid invoices over 30 days by 84
percent and our interest payments by 75 percent during FY 2003. This
achievement can be attributed to the conscientious and dedicated personnel
working together. |
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Defense Information Systems Agency
The Defense Information Systems
Agency is a combat support agency responsible for planning, engineering,
acquiring, fielding, and supporting Global Net-Centric Solutions and
operating the Defense Information System Network to serve the needs of the
President, Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, and the other DoD
Components, under all conditions of peace and war.
DISA is the provider of
Global Net-Centric Solutions for the Nation’s warfighters and all those who
support them in the defense of the nation. |
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DoD Readiness Center
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Federal Occupational Health
FOH's Ergo-Fed is an innovative approach to office ergonomics issues that
include employee assessment, training and program evaluation by using
web-based technologies. |
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US General Services Administration (GSA)
Our office has initiated changes to GSA's PICS system, GSA's catalog preparation system, and GSA Advantage to provide
an ergonomic category that would group all ergonomic products together. It
is our intent to be able to produce catalogs of ergonomic products and
provide user friendly access to ergonomic products in GSA Advantage. We are
working toward developing GSA Advantage as a primary source of ergonomic
products offered by private industry. |
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HOOAH
Maintained by the Army Center
for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (CHPPM), the HOOAH 4 Health
site addresses Army force health protection and readiness requirements. The
site is divided into sections on body, mind, and spirit resources.
Ergonomics information can be found by searching the site for ergonomics. |
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Indian Health Services
Our Mission... to raise
the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of American Indians and
Alaska Natives to the highest level.
Our Goal... to assure
that comprehensive, culturally acceptable personal and public health
services are available and accessible to American Indian and Alaska Native
people.
Our Foundation... to
uphold the Federal Government's obligation to promote healthy American
Indian and Alaska Native people, communities, and cultures and to honor and
protect the inherent sovereign rights of Tribes. |
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International Ergonomics Association
The International Ergonomics
Association (IEA) is the federation of ergonomics and human factors
societies from around the world. The mission of IEA is to elaborate and
advance ergonomics science and practice, and to improve the quality of life
by expanding its scope of application and contribution to society. |
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US Marine Corps
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US Marine Corps Safety Division
This is a link to the US Marine Corps Safety
Division. Please use the Search feature for keywords such as Ergonomics. |
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Information Coming Soon |
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National Science Foundation
The mission of the Center in
Ergonomics focuses on the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal
disorders (MSDs), which are the most frequent and costly illnesses in the
workplace.
Goals of the Center are
three-fold: to determine the root causes of MSDs; to identify effective
interventions to combat these illnesses; and to identify emerging
technologies and issues related to MSDs. |
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US Navy
This web site will showcase information generated from the pilot sites.
Additionally, it will assist in resolving ergonomic-related problems,
procuring appropriate equipment/materials, and providing recommendations in
the manufacturing and remodeling/refurbishment of Navy facilities. This web
site is currently under development. This site also contains
ERGONEWS , A publication
Sponsored by the Chief of Naval Operations. |
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US Navy Environmental Health Center (NEHC)
Provides links to various
Ergonomics products and resources. |
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NAVFAC Safety &Health
This site is an element of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC). The purpose of this site
is to provide U.S. Navy facilities and interested Department of the Navy
organizations with occupational safety and health technical information. The
Ergonomics page includes ergonomic assessment tools, PowerPoint training
modules and an "Ask the Ergonomist" forum. This site is maintained by the
Safety and Occupational Health Division (Code SF). |
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
This site contains many
documents and products in the field of ergonomics. Recommend selecting the
search utility for keyword 'ergonomics' |
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Ohio State
The Ohio State
University Institute for Ergonomics is dedicated to ensuring the design of
safe and effective work environments and consumer products. This requires an
understanding of the physical and cognitive capabilities of people, as well
as insights into how performance is affected by the use of different support
technologies, tools and work practices. |
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Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
OSHA is committed to a four-pronged effort to address Musculoskeletal Disorders:
- Training, educational and outreach activities
- Study and analysis of work-related musculoskeletal disorders and;methods to minimize or eliminate them
- Enforcement
- Rulemaking
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Texas A&M
The mission of
the Center in Ergonomics focuses on the prevention of work-related
musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), which are the most frequent and costly
illnesses in the workplace.
Goals of the Center are
three-fold: to determine the root causes of MSDs; to identify effective
interventions to combat these illnesses; and to identify emerging
technologies and issues related to MSDs. |
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University of Michigan Center for Ergonomics
The University of Michigan
Center for Ergonomics is internationally recognized and frequently sought
out by persons from all over the country and world for research assistance,
education and information. Numerous publications by center investigators
form the foundation of human biomechanical modeling, work related mechanisms
of musculoskeletal disorders, and methodologies for analyzing and designing
jobs for control of musculoskeletal disorders. |
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Virginia Tech Environmental, Health and Safety Services
Environmental, Health and Safety Services are committed to provide a safe
and healthy living, learning, and working environment for every member of
the university community by assuring safe work practices through effective
education and consultation; to help individuals and departments achieve
compliance with all health and safety local, state and federal regulations
and University policies as economically as possible; to act as liaison with
external regulatory agencies, and to monitor University compliance through
audit, program development, education, and consultation; and to continuously
improve services provided by incorporating team approaches to problem
solving and actively seeking input from university employees and
departments. |
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Washington State Department of Labor & Industries
Our goal is to share stories and examples of businesses in Washington State that use
ergonomics to make sure workers are healthier; at the same time, have less
workers compensation claims, improved morale, productivity and quality. |
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Washington State Ergonomics
Our goal is to share stories
and examples of businesses in Washington State that use ergonomics to make
sure workers are healthier; at the same time, have less workers compensation
claims, improved morale, productivity and quality. |
