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Our mission is to serve military and civilian personnel worldwide by reducing and preventing work-related musculoskeletal injuries. We provide leadership and support to U.S. Army Installations and other Department of Defense agencies in the areas of ergonomics program development, education and training, system evaluation, analysis and measurement, and applied research.

If you need ergonomics assistance please click on Ask an Ergonomist and an email with your question will be sent to the USAPHC Ergonomics Program.

Topics

Ergonomics Policy

This page provides a brief description and links to relevant policy to help you develop an efficient ergonomics program. DoD Policy Army Policy Army Guidance DoDI 6055.1DoD Safety and Occupational Health (SOH) ProgramEnclosure 6: DoD Ergonomics Program Requirements and Procedures AR 40-5Preventive Medicine: This revision, dated 25 May 2007, redefines preventive medicine and pr... (more)

Office Ergonomics

Guide and Fact Sheets on how to set up your office chair and workstation in an ergonomically correct and safe manner.... (more)

Services

Ergonomics Publications

Posters These 18 x 24 posters are available free of charge (in a limited quantity). Please contact us for more information. To download the posters, please visit the Health Information Products e-Catalog. ... (more)

Installation Services

The AIPH provides a number of ergonomics services including: Training Program Development Worksite Assessments TrainingAIPH ergonomists offer a variety of training services to meet your needs, budget and time constraints. Applied Ergonomics Course Collateral Ergonomics Duty Officer Training One-Day Back Class Office Ergonomics Training Design Your Own Training Pro... (more)

Safe Patient Handling

Protecting our military and civilian healthcare providers from risk of musculoskeletal injury is of vital importance as they provide the highest standard of care to injured Soldiers, retirees, and their families. Manually moving and handling patients is a risky activity undertaken many times each day by healthcare staff. Implementation of safe patient-handling programs can result in ... (more)

System Acquisition

System developers may find the following information helpful. It contains information about the assessment methods used by the USAIPH Ergonomics Program when performing a Health Hazard Assessment. Our staff performs Health Hazard Assessments to support the USAIPH Health Hazard Assessment Program and to help identify exposures from products developed for or used by US Army personnel that could lea... (more)