ERGO Resources to Guide You

U-M Providers of Ergonomic Services and Who to Call with Questions and Concerns

The Ergonomics Awareness team combines the efforts of ergonomic consultants from the following U-M programs:

• Campus Programs for Injury Prevention and Departmental Interventions
  • Ann Arbor: Occupational Safety and Environmental Health
  • Dearborn: Public Safety and Environmental Health
  • Flint: Environment, Health and Safety
    
• UMHHC Injury Prevention and Departmental Interventions (available to U-M hospitals and health centers only)
  • Safety Management Services
    
• For faculty and staff who are under a physician’s care for musculoskeletal discomfort
  • MWorks Occupational Therapy Services - In order to coordinate services with the physician and department, candidates for the medical services should ask their physician to fax a request for an ergonomic consultation to MWorks Occupational Therapy at (734) 975-3011 (please dial all seven digits when faxing).

Other resource links within the University of Michigan

• Center for Ergonomics, U-M College of Engineering: http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/ioe/C4E/
• Environmental & Industrial Health Program, U-M School of Public Health: http://www.sph.umich.edu/eih/
• Employee Health Service: http://www.med.umich.edu/ehs/
• MFit Health Promotion: http://www.med.umich.edu/mfit/
• MWorks Occupational Therapy Service: http://www.med.umich.edu/mworks/ergo_um.htm
• Patient Education Websites: http://www.med.umich.edu/pteducation/index.htm
• Property Disposition: http://propertydisposition.umich.edu/
  
• Occupational Health Nursing Program: http://www.nursing.umich.edu/academics/masters/ohn.html
• Office of Institutional Equity (ADA Assistance): http://www.hr.umich.edu/oie/adafaq.html
• Work~Connections: http://www.umich.edu/~connect/
• U-M Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FASAP): http://www.umich.edu/~fasap/
• UMHS Employee Assistance Program (EAP): http://www.med.umich.edu/mworks/eap/

External Ergonomic Resources

Information Resources

• Cornell University Ergonomic: http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/
• NIOSH Ergonomic: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/ergonomics/
• OSHA Ergonomic http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/ergonomics/index.html
• University of California Ergonomic: http://ergonomics.ucla.edu/
• Washington State Dept of Labor Ergonomic: http://www.lni.wa.gov/Safety/Topics/Ergonomic/default.asp
  

Stretching Resources

• For online stretching and workstation set-up recommendations, visit the National Institutes of Health, Division of Occupational Health and Safety (DOHS) website at: http://dohs.ors.od.nih.gov/exercises.htm
• For online stretches, visit the University of Virginia website at: http://keats.admin.virginia.edu/ergo/stretch.html

Medical or Disability Resources

• Abledata adaptive equipment: http://www.abledata.com/
• Americans with Disabilities Act: http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm
• Job Accommodation Network and ADA information: http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/
• Microsoft Accessibility site: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
• Typing Injuries Frequently Asked Questions: http://tifaq.com/
• For those with a medical diagnosis, please refer to the appropriate associations that may offer helpful advice, such as the Arthritis Foundation at http://www.arthritis.org/