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Ergonomics

Good Ergonomics = Good Economics Hal Hendrick (pdf)  ©HFES

Bernardino Ramazzini, 17th century father Ergonomics

Ergonomics Event Calendar from office-ergo.com

What is Ergonomics and Human Factors?

Alternative keyboards & input devices

Ergonomics review of alternative keyboards
Rani Lueder and Chris Grant

NIOSH on keyboard ergonomics alternatives  |  pdf
National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health

More alternative keyboards, mouse & other input devices

Sitting postures & seating

Rethinking sitting & ergonomic seating  (Rani Lueder)

The case for and against movements for its own sake
Ergonomics review  |  Research  |  Courtesy of Allsteel

Arm support & chair armrests:   Ergonomics review
by Rani Lueder & Paul Allie    Courtesy of Steelcase

Sitting postures & seating  |  ErgoExpo workshop

Second look at standard seat height guidelines  (1986)
This review is dated (written in 1986), but still true.
Influenced at least one national guideline.

Nottingham sit/stand seating  |  Glossary of postures
(No, we don't sell these or any other chairs.)

Flash & Powerpoint slide shows of sit/stand seating by EN Corlett

"The Chair" by Galen Cranz (review of her seating book)

Chair evaluations with the BIFMA Chair Measuring Device
BIFMA CMD evaluates compliance with ergonomic guidelines

Musical chairs (1900)  |  Zen sitting vs. Western seating

Anthropometrics for adults,  children  &  disabled

Ergonomics for children

Ergonomics & design for children  |  New child ergonomics book

Child Ergonomics ErgoExpo  |  Flash & Powerpoint presentations

Children / adults  |  Ergonomic rules adults vs children?

Vision & lighting

Solving VDT reflections by Mark Rea  |  Visual ergonomics

Neck postures &  vision  |  Monitor tilt  &  lighting by  Dennis Ankrum

Symptoms

RULA  |  Discomfort scale & cites  |  Stadiometers  |  EMGs  |  CMD

Anatomy  |  Medical search engines  |  Free medical journals

Occupational injuries

President Executive Order exerts control federal health & safety 1/30/07

Economic consequence musculoskeletal disorders  (700K pdf)

95% Workers Comp cases in CT not reported (50K pdf)

Bureau of Labor Statistics under-represents injuries
by Rani Lueder, CPE

How BLS distorts injury data (700K pdf, OCR-scanned)
Original BLS J article (not OCR-scanned, (1 MB pdf)
from the American J Industrial Medicine.

More workplace ergonomics  &  worksite injury data  |  MSDs

Ergonomics guidelines, standards & laws

Revisiting Office Ergonomic Guidelines by Dennis Ankrum

National Safety Council withdraws ANSI Z365/CTDs  (20K pdf)

Current  &  pending European ergonomic standards  |  pdf

Safety oversight  |  Ergonomic standards  |  Legal resources

Office ergonomics

Behavioral ergonomics (AIHA workshop)

Office ergonomics bloopers  |  ErgoExpo handouts
The National Ergonomics Conference & Exposition

Download Intro: History / evolution of the office   (2 MB pdf)

in The Ergonomics Payoff; Design electronic office (Holt)

Ergonomics Societies

HFES website: What members told us (survey)
Download that HFES issue  (160K pdf)   ©HFES 2003

Revisiting ergonomics  by Rani Lueder  |  pdf

Ergonomics Society's history   |  Human Factors  (63K pdf)  ©HFES

More Ergonomics and related associations

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