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- NYU Ergonomics Course - Three day training for ergonomics professionals seeking advanced understanding of ergonomics principles, techniques and measurement tools for assessment of physical workload, posture, occupational exposure and stress.
- Ergonomic Society of Australia - To advance the science of ergonomics in Australia by promoting education and research in ergonomics and the application of its principles.
- Ergonomics for Children - Site provides extensive guidelines, research and applications on ergonomics for children in educational environments. Topics include anthropometrics, computer use and vision, school design posture issues,backpack/carrying, back pain, ergonomics curriculum and product safety issues.
- Ergonomics.Org - Relating the principles of ergonomics to the quality of posture and movement.
- COMPUT- ERgonomics - Offers the Computer Comfort Kit, a comprehensive ergonomics package containing the essentials for comfortable and safe computing.
- Ergonomics at Work Inc. - Focuses on improving human performance in industrial and office workplaces through ergonomics training, consulting, ergonomics program development and management, and office elearning software. Offers news, case studies and industry newsletter. Waterloo, Ontario.
- Article about OSHA's Ergonomics Standard - Article on OSHA's new Ergonomics Program Standard.
- Ergonomics Society home page - The Ergonomics Society - the UK organisation for professionals using information about people to design for comfort, efficiency and safety
- Ergonomics in Design - The magazine of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society provides up-to-date demonstrations of the importance of ergonomics principles in design and implementation. Ordering information and contents listing.
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia, Inc - The Society has members drawn from several disciplines but usually from occupational health, safety, design, psychology, medicine and engineering. Most add to their basic qualifications post-graduate studies in ergonomics.
Wikipedia Articles
- Ergonomics - Ergonomics (or human factors) is the application of scientific information concerning humans to the design of objects, systems and environment for human use (definition adopted by the International Ergonomics Association in 2007). Ergonomics is commonly thought of as how companies design tasks and work areas to maximize the efficiency and quality of their employees’ work.
- List of basic ergonomics topics - Ergonomics (also called human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data, and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance (definition adopted by the International Ergonomics Association in 2000). Basic topics in ergonomics include:
- Ergonomics Society - The Ergonomics Society is an academic society which facilitates research into ergonomics and related disciplines. It is based in the United Kingdom.
- Cognitive ergonomics - Cognitive Ergonomics studies cognition in work settings, in order to optimize human well-being and system performance. It is a subset of the larger field of human factors and ergonomics.
- International Ergonomics Association - The International Ergonomics Association or IEA is a federation of forty-two individual ergonomics organizations from around the world.