How to Get Help
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)
- For faculty and staff who are under a physician’s care for musculoskeletal discomfort
Other resource links within the University of Michigan
- Center for Ergonomics, U-M College of Engineering
- Occupational Health Service
- Knox Center Adaptive Computing Site
- Patient Education Websites
- Property Disposition
- Office of Institutional Equity (ADA Assistance)
- Work~Connections
- U-M Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FASAP)
- UMHS Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
External Ergonomic Resources
Information Resources
- Cornell University Ergonomics
- NIOSH Ergonomics
- OSHA Ergonomics
- University of California Ergonomics
- Washington State Dept of Labor Ergonomics
Stretching Resources
- MHealthy Stretches Fact Sheet
- For online stretching and workstation set-up recommendations, visit the National Institutes of Health, Division of Occupational Health and Safety (DOHS) website
- For online stretches, visit the University of Virginia website
- MHealthy Physical Activity Resources
- Healthwise Osteoarthritis Stretching
- Arthritis Foundation Stretches, Videos, Photos
Medical or Disability Resources
- Abledata adaptive equipment
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Job Accommodation Network and ADA information
- Microsoft Accessibility site
- For those with a medical diagnosis, please refer to the appropriate associations that may offer helpful advice, such as the Arthritis Foundation