Compiled by Tim Morse, Ph.D., at the ErgoCenter at the University of Connecticut Health Center, tmorse@nso.uchc.edu, 860-679-4720. Please send suggestions for additions. I have started an e-mail network for ergonomics—if you would like to be included, please send me an e-mail.
You can do searches on anything at several sites, such as:
http://www.google.com http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.altavista.com/
http://www.hotbot.com http://www.lycos.com/ http://www.about.com
General Health and Safety Sites
One of the best sources of information for job health and safety on the internet is the OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) homepage, which includes an ergonomics homepage, a searchable index of standards, and a listing of health and safety sites on the internet
To look up OSHA citations by company or industry: http://www.osha.gov/cgi-bin/est/est1
NIOSH (the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) is another good general source. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html
EPA has a number of sites relevant to occupational health on indoor air quality, asbestos, and other topics. www.epa.gov http://www.epa.gov/iaq/homes/index.html
The Duke Occupational & Environmental Medicine and the Association of Occupational & Environmental Clinics (AOEC) on-line text resources. The site includes links to other professional occupational medicine web sites, subscribing information to the e-mail info service, access to the Duke occupational medicine gopher with tons of info, MMWR articles, federal documents, a list of lending library resources, and more.
http://occ-env-med.mc.duke.edu/oem
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety has hundreds of resources on their health and safety internet resource list. Start at their home page, then choose Resources (on the top bar), then Internet Directory. http://www.ccohs.ca
New Jersey Health Dept. has excellent chemical hazard factsheets that are free, independently researched, and clearly written on hundreds of substances.
http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/rtkhsfs.htm
Vermont safety information resources has a database of material safety data sheets (MSDS) from a large number of chemical companies. http://www.siri.org/
Several safety organizations have useful websites:
www.crossroads.nsc.org The National Safety Council
www.aiha.org The American Industrial Hygiene Association
www.asse.org American Society of Safety Engineers
www.nfpa.org National Fire Protection Assoc.
www.safetycentral.org International Safety Equipment Association
The national
AFL-CIO includes a health and safety page.
http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/safety/
NYCOSH (New York
Council for Occupational Safety and Health) covers a lot of news from a labor
perspective.
http://www.nycosh.org/
Jordan Barab has a labor health and safety blog. http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/
The Connecticut Business and Industry Association has a health and safety page that helps businesses understand what OSHA laws apply to them, and provides information on upcoming conferences and events. http://www.cbia.com/hr/SafetyAndHealth/
The Environmental Defense Fund has a scorecard page with information about the health effects of chemical emissions from 17,000 industrial facilities and the testing of chemicals, with maps and interactive databases. http://www.scorecard.org/
State of Connecticut Resources
The Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission has an excellent website, including information on the locations of offices, a searchable version of the workers’ compensation statutes, new decisions, and other information. http://wcc.state.ct.us/index.html
The ConneCT website allows access to all state agencies: http://www.state.ct.us/
The State Department of Public Health includes a site for the occupational health program, including versions of the occupational lung disease newsletter, factsheets, and other information.
http://www.state.ct.us/dph/BCH/EEOH/HPEEOH.html
The Connecticut Labor Department includes an occupational health services site, which includes information on their free consultation program and a great set of links to other health and safety sites. http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/osha/osha.htm
The Connecticut General Assembly website lets you search for any bill being considered, or get information about relevant committees such as Labor and Public Employees or Public Health.
You can track national bills on the National Library of Medicine site known as Thomas
You can search the medical literature at PubMed. www.pubmed.gov
Ergonomic Sites and Links
http://www.ergoweb.com Ergoweb was originally part of the University of Utah, but has split off into a commercial site, but with a lot of good factsheets, documents, and news.
http://hsc.usf.edu/~tbernard/ergotools Tom Bernard’s website at USF with many of the standards and typical ergonomic analysis tools
http://www.medicalmultimediagroup.com/opectoc.html Medical Multimedia Group has patient education materials with good graphics and explanations.
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu Cornell University has an active ergonomics program, with reports posted on graduate student projects and evaluation of ergonomic products.
http://www.hfes.org Human Factors and Ergonomics Society is the main professional association in ergonomics.
http://www.ctdnews.com CTD News Monthly Newsletter homepage.
http://www.comp.vuw.ac.nz/General/OOS Occupational Overuse Syndrome/RSI resources
University of Virginia Ergonomics Training and Resources
http://keats.admin.virginia.edu/ergo/home.html
http://www.tifaq.com Lots of links and info from injured workers at the Typing Injury FAQ.
http://www.rsi-uk.org.uk RSI/UK Information about Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSI) originating from the UK, with information gathered from sources around the globe.
http://www.usernomics.com Usernomics Ergonomics for hardware, software, and training.
http://www.workhealth.org The Job Stress Network web page is dedicated to increasing
communication among researchers and others interested in job stress and its impact on health
http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/healthycomputing/index.html IBM’s website.
http://nattie.eh.doe.gov/others/ergoeaser/download.html A download of an interesting ergonomics software program developed by Battelle Labs for the Dept. of Energy called ErgoEaser is available for free. The program lets you input measurements of workstations and operators to help analyze computer workstations and lifting.
http://www.acq.osd.mil/ens/sh/ERGO.HTML Ergonomics policies and
costs for the Dept. of Energy is also available.
Note:
These are commercial vendors; we are not endorsing their products, but only
showing the range of options.
Alimed, www.alimed.com
BKM (Details & Steelcase), East Hartford, CT, www.bkm.com
Details (Steelcase Ergonomics Partner), http://www.details-worktools.com/
ErgoSystems, East Hartford, CT, www.ergosystems.com
Flexrest, www.flexrest.com
Haworth Furniture, http://www.haworth-furn.com/index.asp
Herman Miller, http://www.hermanmiller.com/
Humanscale, http://www.humanscale.com/
Grahl, www.grahl.com
ISE (International Source for Ergonomics), www.visual-ergonomics.com
Knoll, http://www.knoll.com/
Proformix Systems, www.proformix.com
Roller mouse, http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/roller_mouse.htm
Steelcase Corporate, www.steelcase.com
Workplace Ergonomics (North Coast Medical), www.ncmedical.com
Workrite Ergonomics, www.wrea.com
Media Control,
Alternative pointing devices and keyboards: www.keyalt.com or goldtouch.com.
RSIGuard (AutoClick feature) http://www.rsiguard.com
MouseTool http://www.mousetool.com
For Macintosh:SmartClick http://www.rjcooper.com/smartclick/index.html
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