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US Navy Occupational Safety and Health (NAVOSH) Program. Informative readings on topics the Navy considers major Safety Challenges, including vibration. Link goes to their homepage, but it's worth clicking around to see all the info available. www.navosh.net


United States National Library of Medicine website, including the handy Medline service. One of our favorite sites. Easy access to thousands of articles on anything under the medical sun. Happily, the search tool was created by someone with a brain. We typed in "hand-arm vibration" and found over 52 pages with 1020 references.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Centralized European Hand-Arm Vibration Data Base. The database is hosted by a web server at the National Institute for Working Life, Department of Technical Hygiene, Umeå, Sweden. Contains vibration data for about 2500 hand-held power tools, either CE-declared values or measured according to ISO 5349 during normal operation at a work site. Hit "Search" button at bottom to open database.
http://umetech.niwl. se/Vibration/HAVHome.html

Nice ergonomics site by Oklahoma State University, with good links to articles on general ergonomics, carpal tunnel, RSI, office ergonomics, etc.
http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/links/ergon.htm

Good general information on causes and preventions of Repetitive Strain Injuries and Cumulative Trauma Disorders. Links to U of Virgina site on same subjects.
http://www.engr.unl.edu/eeshop/rsi.html

American Industrial Hygene Association. We are linking you right to the publications page, offering research on low back pain, cumulative trauma disorder, manual materials handling and back pain. Remainder of site is definitely worth a browse.
http://www.aiha.org/index2e.html

American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists site. (Membership is not restricted to government hygienists - qualified persons in private industry may also join.) Events calendar, listing of publications available for online purchase, free software demo downloads, classifieds.
http://www.acgih.org

Links to the online edition of the newsletter of the Australian Ergonomics Society.
http://www.uq.edu.au/eaol/]

Access the latest edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Archives speciality journals and the ANM news.
http://www.ama-assn.org/

CTDNews - Ergonomics and Workplace Safety
Past and current issues of CTD (Cumulative Trauma Disorder) News Online, covering a variety of ergonomic issues relating to repetitive stress disorders, from carpal tunnel syndrome to chronic lower back pain.
http://ctdnews.com/

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Site.
Nice section in a Q & A format addressing common questions about Human Factors in Materials Handling. Wide range of links and other ergonomic resources.
http://www.ccohs.ca/

Access the latest edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Archives speciality journals and the ANM news.
http://www.ama-assn.org/

BioMechanics Magazine Online. Read the current issue or search archives for free. Suprisingly, not much technical information, but good links to research sites.
http://www.biomech.com/

VerticalNet's Safety Online
News, product info and online catalogs.
http://www.safetyonline.com/content/homepage/

Link to International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health (IJOEH).
Index of past Tables of Contents, subscription information, description of original articles, selected papers and brief reports by leading international researchers. (You can now access much of this content off a Medline search - see above.)
http://www.hanleyandbelfus.com/journals/ijoeh.html

You've been working hard! Take a break and look at some of the stupidest designs ever created. You'll never look at your showerhead in quite the same way again. Compiled by Michael J. Darnell.
http://www.baddesigns.com/index.shtml