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Anatomy  |  MSDs  |  Work ergonomics  |  Injury data  |  Safety oversight  |  Standards

NIOSH announces their new blog on workplace stress   |   NIOSH Science blog

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Anthropometrics

Anthropometrics: Occupations

CACFOA's UK female firefighters (5 MB pdf)

Anthropometry: Industrial work  (Marras & Kim)

Occupations & body sizes  (Oxford Press "facts")

Anthropometrics: Nations

SizeUK  |  pdf    11,000 British adults

Bodymetrics 3D British Anthro  11K pdf

Belgian body sizes from DINBelg 2005
150,000 Belgian adult body sizes

SizeChina head shape anthropometry
3D database head & face shapes China

Hand anthropometry, women in India
Nag & Desai, 2003 (138k pdf)

Anthropometrics & living std
Courtesy of Mary Hansen

DTI & U Nottingham PSTG

Strength report  ©2003 Crown Publishing

Follow up reports  onetwo and  three

Anthropometrics & related reports
from US Army Natick and others

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ADA224986: Correlation coeff & regressions
Part 1: Statistical techniques, landmarks & def

ADA224987: Correlation coeff & regressions
Part 2: Correlation coefficients. Male data

ADA224988: Correlation coeff & regressions
Part 3: Correlation coefficients. Female data

ADA224989: Correlations & regressions
Part 4: Correlation coeff & bivariate regression

ADA306904: Anthro & risk combat training 1993
Bell & Jones.  Injury risk 1993.

ADA316645: 1995 Statistical validation Marines
Donelson & Gordon. 12 Dimensions Anthropometric database matching.   1995.

ADA316646: Anthropometry male & female Marines 1996
Greiner & Gordon. 15 dimensions.  Natick TR-96/036

ADA292326: Analysis Army occupations 1997
Paquette & Gordon.  Natick TR-97/015

ADA317770: US Army evaluation 1988 data 1996

ADA324286: Whole body scans, 53 subjects 1996

ADA327698: Supplement to marine anthro data
Paquette & Gordon.  76 dimensions. 1996.

ADA304353: Analysis Army occupations 1988

ADA353852: Comparison female ethnic groups

ADA356431: CSERIAC automated anthropometrics

ADA206534: CAD & anthropometry 1988

ADA363279: Fort Jackson: Male and female
Men & Women in Combat Training 1988

ADA363598: Anthropometrics & physical fitness
Fort Bliss: Combat Training, 1989

ADA388330: Firefighter fitness wellness CSERIAC '98

ADA388376: Muscle strength endurance CSERIAC '97

AD 735101:   Anthropometry Naval aviators 1971

AD 752032:   Anthropometrics Naval aviators 1972

ADA109270: Female vs. male size & strength

Human Systems (HSIIAC)
IAC Anthropometrics

Cockpits anthro (Ken Kennedy)

Example: 3D reach 5th, 50th & 95th percentiles

The human factors public domain anthro databases at www.hsiiac.org from the US Army, Navy and Air Force was recently closed from the public.

Obesity

US bottoms keep getting bigger (Media)

Overweight in adults  |  Facts   (NHANES)

Body Mass Index calculations

NIDDK's  obesity stats & prevalence

Anthropometrics: Data & approaches

Databases  |  Landmarks

Excel: US adult dimensions by Tom Bernard

NASA:   Anthropometry & biomechanics

CAESAR etc
Virtual Reality & Simulation

Caesar database  |  Lessons learned

Human motion simulation |  ReportsU Mich

Related anthropometrics

Anthropometrics of children  & disabled

Posture evaluation tools

Original & adapted RULA posture tools

Original RULA online  |  Cite  |  About

Office RULA  |  Online  |  RULA  Not validated

ErgoWeb thread on this version of the RULA

More posture tools

OWAS & screens from Tampere U.

Revised OWAS in CYBERG ergonomics

REBA from Tom Bernard

Small comparison checklists  from U Waterloo

More ergonomic tools

Ergo tools from Tom Bernard   Often down

OSHA recc'd ergonomic tools  Dr. Bernard's tools
temporarily moved here until his site comes back.

Body Part Discomfort (Corlett & Bishop)

NIOSH lifting equation & manual  |  pdf (4 MB)
OCR scanned 4 MB pdf  (OCR may -> errors)

Lifting & hazard tools Washington State L&I

Liberty Mutual Materials Handling tables

Job Strain Index (Moore & Garg, 1995)
from Cornell & NexGenErgo's sites

ErgoEaser analysis software from DOE

NIOSH tool calculates farm child risk

Checklists from CUErgo Cornell  |  Nexgen

Nigel Corlett et al inventions
Co-invented BPD & RULA
Sit/stand seat from Univ. Nottingham IOE

Review of sit-stand seating by Nigel Corlett

Stadiometer  |  Sewing machines  |  Paintings

Workplace ergonomics

Anatomy

Glossary of ergonomic terms   (postures)

Human muscles  |  Muscle tables  |  A-Z

Gray's Anatomy  |  Search Gray's  |  Anatomy

Sports Science  |  Something's afoot...

Digital anatomy  |  Overview  (U Wash)

Biomechanics

Biomechanics research from Ohio State IOE

Int'l Biomechanics  |   Footwear Biomechanics

Physiological measurements

Interpreting electromyography (EMGs)

Measuring human strength   (Kroemer et al)

Stadiometers (compression / shrinkage spine)

MSDs
Musculoskeletal disorders

NIOSH on MSDs & risk at work

Work-relatedness of disease  (NIOSH, 1979)

Musculoskeletal disorders & work (2001)

Work-related MS Disorders 1999  |  1998  NAP

Sorehand listserve & RSI exchange

WRMSDs by Tom Armstrong  |  Force

Medline:  hands & arms  |  back & neck injuries

Workplace ergonomics

Office-ergo.com   (C. Grant & D. Ankrum)

Marxhausen's RSI  (U. Nebraska-Lincoln)

Why training can't replace bad design (movie)

Occupational Hazards  online magazine

"Ergonomic seating"  |  Vision  |  Keyboards

Easy Ergonomics: Ergonomic hand tool design

Laboratory ergonomics

Pipetting Injuries Cindy Burt

CDC's Laboratory checklist

UCLA laboratory tips Cindy Burt

Hospital ergonomics

OSHA on patient handling

NIOSH on patient handling

Medline: Ergonomics & nursing (search)

Download presentation  (57 MB, zipped)

Dental ergonomics

Applications  |  European Society  |  More

Articles  |  ppt  |  Selecting equipment (1MB pdf)

Psychosocial factors

NIOSH blog: Workplace stress  |  NIOSH Science blog

Wikipedia on Organizational Ecology

NIOSH on shiftwork  |  Proceedings (2MB pdf)

Psychosocial research from Ben Amick

Swedish Nat'l Institute  |  Quality of work life

Stanford Prison Experiment  |  Group psych (200k)

Psychosocial: Poverty & social class ($5)

Ergonomics & productivity

GAO:  Private sector ergonomics (2MB pdf)

Good Ergonomics = Good Economics
by Hal Hendrick (1MB pdf) ©HFES

Effects office intervention on MSDs
by Amick, Robertson et al, 2003  (400k pdf)

University Ergonomics Centers

Cornell CUErgo  |  Research

UCLA:   ergonomics.ucla.edu

U. Utah:   www.ergoweb.com  |  Forum

U. Michigan  |  MSDs  |  CTDs  by Tom Armstrong

Occup. Ergonomics  |  Product Safety  |  Rail

UC Berkeley:   me.berkeley.edu/ergo

National Academies Press
Read these NAP books online

nap.edu  |  Topics  |  Bookshelves  |  Terrorism

Safe work in the 21st century (2000)

Reducing the burden of injury (1998)

Changing nature of work: Occup Anal (1999)

Case for HF in Industry & Govt (1997)

Ergonomics in other languages

Google  |  Systran  |  Babelfish  |  freetranslation.com

Product ergonomics

Consumer Products Safety

www.cpsc.gov  |  Search  |  Search

CPSC and Federal notices & regulations

Consumer Reports

www.consumerreports.org

Consumer Report's Oyster Award
CR's Packaging "Hall of Shame"

Consumer reports:   appliances & electronics
Free content lacks adjacent green dollar sign

IDSA
Industrial Design Society of America

IDSA.org

New  |  Human Factors

Product design

baddesigns.com

Unlimited by Design at U. Buffalo

Assorted, related

Driving w/ cell phones resembles drunk
by David Strayer et al  (1 MB pdf)  ©HFES

Train tables redesigned for crash safety

HCI
Human Computer Interface

HCI User Interface (HCI Index)

User-friendly web guidelines  |  Xchange

HFES website: member survey  |  pdf

HCI in CYBERG 2002 Proceedings

Keyboard, mouse
and alternative inputs

Alternative keyboards  (Lueder & Grant)

Scott Mackenzie's input devices

Input devices: ISO testing guidelines  (Mackenzie)

Fingerworks membranes  |  Images

Canesta's virtual keyboard

Scientific American  |  Time

Ergonomics & related associations

Ergonomics conferences

Ergonomics events

Int'l. Ergonomics Assoc. (IEA)

www.IEA.cc

HFES
Human Factors & Ergonomics Society

hfes.org  |  Draft HFES-100 Guideline

Tech GroupsEnv Design  |  Safety & NL

Ergonomics Society (Europe)

ergonomics.org.uk  |  Ergonomic links  |  Events

Indian Society of Ergonomics

http://ise.org.in  |  Newsletters  |  Events

CybErg online conference

CybErg 2005 papers  |  CybErg 2002 papers

American Psychological Assoc. (APA)

www.apa.org  |  PsychInfo

Board Certification Prof. Ergonomics

www.bcpe.org  |  BCPE update

NSC
National Safety Council

www.nsc.org  |  Site  |  Ergonomics

NSC withdraws ANSI Z365 / CTDs  (20K pdf)

ANSI Draft Z365  (withdrawn)  |  pdf

ASSE
Am. Society Safety Engineers

www.asse.org

Pub & standards

AIHA
American Industrial Hygiene Assoc
www.aiha.org  |  Search
Societies in Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation Therapy

Scholarly Societies

scholarly-societies.org

Safety  |  Health  |  Psychology

Health and safety oversight

NIOSH
National Institute Occup. Safety & Health

cdc.gov/NIOSH  |  Search

Ergonomics  |  Workplace stress  |  Science blog

MSDs  |  Topics  |  Pubs  |  Hand tools

OSHA Ergonomics (Federal)
Occupational Safety & Health Administration

Executive Order exerts control over Safety

OSHA  |  Subjects  |  OSHA Regs  |  Compliance

Work ergonomics  |  Guidelines  |  Data  |  Nursing

OSHA warnsCompanies w/high injuries  (xls)

State OSHA plans  |  State plans compared

OSHA Log 300 forms:  xls  and  zipped pdf

Employer's rights & responsibilities (OSHA)

Employee rights & responsibilities  |  More  |  Also

Americans with Disabilities Act  |  ADA resources

CAL-OSHA Ergonomics
California State CALOSHA

dir.ca.gov  |  Regs  |  Search regs  |  Site

Ergo Std.  |  Physician's guide to ErgoStd

Hazard evaluations

Cal-OSHA Reporter data & downloads

California Health & Safety Regulations

OSHA Ergonomics
Washington State OSHA

Find a law or rule

MSDs  |  Safety  |  A to Z topics

Safety & health  |  Tools  |  Search

LNI on Washington ErgoRule repeal

LNI's ErgoRule: pdf  |  zip  |  Compliance
Probably the best of the ergonomics guidelines

Canada

Canada focuses on work injuries  Jan '06

BC Canada Workers Comp  safety
Ergonomics section  |  Ergo Regulations
Work Safe Ergonomics  |  MSDs (1 MB pdf)

European Agency for S&H at work

europe.osha.eu.int  |  Stats

Preventing work-related accidents

GAO
General Accountability Office

gao.gov  |  Find reports  |  Search

GAO report:  Worker protection

GAO report: Contractor OS&H violations

British Standards

Health & Safety Work Act 1974 (1989)  |  pdf

Computer Display Equipment Regs 1992  |  pdf

Assorted related

GOP fights efforts to toughen rules  Jan '06

Health, safety and injury information

BLS
Bureau of Labor Statistics

A second look at BLS

BLS data  |  Injuries & illnesses

SIC code  |  As defined  |  More BLS

Assorted related

Economic consequences of MSDs

95% Workers Comp Connecticut unreported

Effect of unions on filing claims  (200K pdf)
written by Punnett, Warren, Dillon, & Morse

Workers' Comp in transition nationally

MD drops "unusual activity" Workers Comp
Regular & usual risk factors had been allowed.
(So back then employers were not responsible
for chopping employees' fingers if they did so every day?)


Background  |  Impact   (400K pdf)

Edison represents workplace injuries

PBS on Workers Comp

LA Times on workers comp fraud (43K pdf)

More questions about Workers Comp

UK HSE
Health & Safety Executive UK

UK: Work-related disease  |  Findings (3MB pdf)

HSE data  |  Disorders  |  MSDs  |  Stress

United Nations data

Population stats

New European datasets  |  EuroStat

Standards and legal bodies

BIFMA
Business & Institutional Furniture Manufacturers

bifma.org  |  Ergonomics "Test for fit" (180K pdf)

BIFMA compliance photos  |  Evaluation

ANSI
Am. Nat'l Standards Institute

ansi.org  |  Procedure  |  Search

Standards Resources & Organizations

British Standards

BS On-line  |  Library

German DIN Standards

www2.din.de

CEN TC
European Union Standards

Current  &  draft European standards  |  pdf

cen.eu  |  Site  |  Search Int'l Standards

Search Ergonomic Standards

Ergonomics: Machine safety standards

Pers Protect Equipment  |  PPEs

Current & draft ergonomic standards

ISO
International Standards Organization

www.iso.ch  |  About ISO

ISO 9000 Glossary  |  9000  |  9241  |  Search

Congressional legislation

thomas.loc.gov

Congress: Bills & resolutions (search)

www.leginfo.ca.gov

Free Law Resources
Guides  |  Resources  |  Search

Ergonomics publishers

Taylor & Francis

tandf.co.uk  |  e-Books  |  e-Journals

Elsevier Science

elsevier.com

Assorted, related

booksinprint.com  |  Journal abbreviations

Ergonomics books from  Google's library

More ergonomics resources

The Wayback Machine

Way Back Machine  |  Search

Medical research

Humanics Ergonomics health

UCS Melvyl

U. California  |  Melvyl

OHIO-link library system

OHIO-link  |  Search

Public databases open to all

Library of Congress

loc.gov  |  Search  |  On-line libraries

Related ergonomics resources

Office ergonomics, etc.
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Children & adolescents
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Design of built environments
humanics-es.com/recc-design.htm
Design for disabilities
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Medical, health & wellness
humanics-es.com/recc-medical.htm
Science & engineering
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Legal, expert witness & forensics
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