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© 2014 The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Grants and Awards 2014-2015


The Ergonomics Team Service Providers: Suzanne Bade: MHealthy Medical Ergonomics Michelle Bollinger: Dearborn Sarah Cooney: OSEH Jacqueline Eckert: UMHS/SMS Pamela Koczman: OSEH Michael Lane: Flint Brenda Myers: UMHS/Safety Management Services Tom Perez, Dearborn Laura Rometsch: Flint Sydney Parmenter: Dearborn Amie Rush: UMHS/SMS


Goal Reduce risk factors related to Musculoskeletal Disorders Sprains, Strains, Pain Back, Neck, Arm, Leg, Vision, Sensation

Issues/Risk Factors Postures, Repetitive Movement/Sustained Postures,

Force, Contact Stress, Temperature, Vibration Risk Reduction via Personal Habits, Administrative Controls, Engineering (Equipment)


Website Self Help

Tutorials Office, Laboratory, Material Handling, Patient Care

Videos: How to Adjust Specific Office Chairs How to Adjust Specific Keyboard Trays Office Ergo Step by Step

Ergo Tips to Print Design Guidelines

Ergo Hero Individual Awards Nominations FY 2015: 106 Typical Achievements: Supervisors and administrators support of faculty

and staff needs for ergonomic improvements, and employee initiation and use of ergonomic improvements


Ergo Departmental Awards Certificate of Recognition (2)

Ann Arbor – Ross Business School MBA Admissions UMHHC– Canton Health Center OB/GYN

Letter of Commendation (2) Ann Arbor – Shared Services Accounts Receivable Ann Arbor - MICHR



Ergo Grants Dept. annual competitive application process Over $89,000 requested for 44 projects. Funded 27

projects with $45,000 central fund. Dept. cost sharing nearly doubles the impact.

Individuals with medical accommodation needs $10,000 fund to cost share with departments for

medical ergonomics clients needing significant equipment purchase to meet their work and medical needs. Maximum offer of $200 per client, and only if accommodation cost exceeds $400.

AA/Internal Med. – Cardiology Research Microscope Use


Before After

Before: “Ergonomic issues include forward leaning of the waist and head/neck flexion to view the eyecups as well as contact stress of the forearms and wrists due to placement on a 90 degree table edge.”

After: “ ”

Flint: Earth and Resource Science Chairs


Before After

Before: “Responsibilities require a significant amount of repetitive motion, such as typing or using a mouse….sitting in awkward positions to type and cradle a phone between their shoulder and head-for extended periods of time.”

After: “ So much better than what we had!” “Safer – won’t flip over now.”

Flint: Computer Science, Engineering & Physics Chairs


Before After

Before: “The chairs contribute to poor sitting posture, which could potentially result in chronic back problems, repetitive strain injuries from typing, and other related musculoskeletal issues.”

After: “[Employees expressed] comfort because of better fitting chairs. This … does lead to higher production and job satisfaction.”

Flint: Biology Chairs


Before After

Before: “Without the ability to adjust the seat height of an office desk chair, faculty and staff must compensate using their shoulders and neck muscles which leads to stress and fatigue. These four-legged chairs are also at risk of tipping over and require body strain in order to scoot them to and from the desk”

After: “WOW! This chair is really comfortable!" "A definite improvement over my old non-ergonomic chair."

UMHHC/Nursing 4C


Before After

Before: “There is a counter in our conference room that is in front of the board that we use to assign patients to nurses three times daily. The counter blocks access to the board for all but the tallest of staff members.”

After: “ ”

AA/Athletic Medicine Adjustable table


Before After

Before: “Most of the treatment/exam tables we use are fixed height and do not allow proper technique for treatment due to varying size of student-athletes and providers. Overuse low back pain, hand/wrist pain linked to improper technique due to table height for manual interventions completed multiple times daily.”

After: “I’ve noticed a great change …I’m no longer putting myself in uncomfortable positions in order to adapt to different athletes on a fixed-height table.” “I can put the student-athletes in an optimal position for treatment without putting stress on my body. It has improved my ability to administer treatment.””

AA/Microbiology and Immunology Floor mats


Before After

Before: “Standing, in a relatively fixed position, for long periods of time while working puts strain on employees’ legs and feet. Also, having to remain bent over while working also strains the back. Having fatigue comfort mats to stand on will help relieve these issues.”

After: “The mats offer more support than we could have imagined. Everyone in the lab is extremely happy. "It's like standing on air. So comfortable!" ”

Flint/Foreign Languages Chairs


Before After

Before: “Faculty complain about lacking the ability to adjust height or swivel their chairs to a comfortable position. Desk chairs ought to roll to avoid unsafe scooting forwards and accidental tipping backwards.”

After: “Faculty are more comfortable with the new chairs and therefore stay in the office to complete work instead of completing the task at home. This allows students extended access to faculty. ”

UMHHC/Entrance Services Scooter


Before After

Before: “Patients and visitors with obese weight creates a weight limit safety issue for our standard manual wheelchairs, as well as for even some of our scooters. Back issues are also common for staff”

After: “[w]e've tested it and it will suite our needs extremely well. It will be used as often as possible. ”

UMHHC/Nursing 4B Slide boards


Before After

Before: “Currently nurses and techs on our unit do most patient lifting, boosting, ambulating, and transferring using manual hands on lifting instead of using lifting aids or slide boards. Many nurses have had time off due to back injury, shoulder injury, or exacerbation during the process of patient care.”

After: “All of the nurses and techs that I have talked to about the slide boards are happy to have them and use them. They have made a huge difference in transferring the patients on our unit. Every transfer I have been a part of has used the slide boards now that we have them more accessible.”

UMHHC/Adult Emergency Dept. Ht.-adjustable chair


Before After

Before: “Anyone drawing blood must bend at their waist to see the vein, switch tubes and reach additional supplies. Many patients have difficulty getting back up due to it being so low to the ground, or the swinging arms get in their ways that go in front of them.”

After: “I love being able to look the patient in the eye as I draw their blood. It is so much easier and my back is loving this chair”

UMHHC/UMH Epilepsy Lab Adjustable treatment chairs


Before After

Before: “The tech performing the procedure needs to be able to position the reclining feature so that they can comfortably hook up the patient. Our current recliners do not have a lock on the recline feature which requires the tech to reposition the patient multiple times during the course of the hook up.”

After: “Users are very appreciative of the multi lock recline ability. They are also appreciative that the chair is lighter and rolls in and out of the room easier than the previous recliners. This is a benefit we didn't consider, but are glad to have.”

Flint/Event and Bldg. Services Chair carts


Before After

Before: “The two wheel carts require that you use your shoulder to support the stack of chairs. We have had times when the cart has tipped over.

After: “These chair carts are wonderful and I would recommend them to anyone in the event business. Even our smallest employees can operate these carts with ease and in a safe manner. ”

Dearborn: University Unions & Events Tables


Before After

Before: “Employees report feelings of discomfort due to the weight and manageability of moving the tables. Several employees have expressed that they are concerned when they need to move the tables because they do not want to injure themselves.”

After: “ ”

Flint/Event and Bldg. Services Tape rolling Gaffgun


Before After

Before: “We use Gaff tape to secure cords and cables to the floor to ensure the safety of our patrons in our conference spaces. The process of applying the tape to the floor is tedious and requires staff to crawl on the floor on their hands and knees.”

After: “The GaffGun allows the employees to apply tape over cords in an upright position. Prior to the GaffGun, the employee would be on their hands and knees applying the tape. Employees commented that particularly for long runs of cables, the GaffGun makes the taping process easy and quick!”

AA/Construction Svcs. Spray Shop Lift table


Before After

Before: “Staff Bend and lift heavy objects onto saw horses to paint. [Staff has] sore backs”

After: “…makes their job easier and safer with less heavy lifting”

AA/MCDB Step stool, monitor


Before After

Before: “Our current size monitors make the task difficult, stressful and uncomfortable. . .[And] we have limited space in our lab. Most reagents and supplies are stored high up on all our shelves. We need a better step stool or ladder to get to these supplies. ”

After: “The equipment is great. They have solved all of our ergonomic issues in the lab. There is no more dangerous climbing to reach things. The monitors have made it easier to sit at a computer for a long period of time without causing too much strain on the eye. The size of the monitors have helped with posture as well. ”

AA/Div. of Anatomical Sciences, Dept. of Surgery: Stools


Before After

Before: “The current stools for the gross anatomy lab are non-adjustable, solid construction steel with four legs. The discomfort often limits the amount of time one may dissect in a given session. People often complain of soreness and fatigue, especially in the back and neck following dissections.”

After: “The comfort, stability, and adjustability of the chairs have surpassed our expectations. ”

AA/Pathology


Before After

Before: “Height and close distance of four monitors in multi-user microscope space. Users must tip their head upward at a significant angle to see monitors.”

After: “[L]arger and farther away monitors make viewing easier with minimal physical adjustment of users and allows more than one user to see monitors at a time.”

Flint/Biology


Before After

Before: “[H]unching body position due to height of table - too short for standing work, too tall to sit at with stool.

After: “ ”

UMHHC/EAA Medical Procedures Unit


Before After

Before: “After a full day of holding pressure in a room, staff find it difficult to return to work the next day to do the same thing over again and need to call in to recover.”

After: “ ”

UMHHC/CHC – OB/GYN Faucet


Before After

Before: “We have to clean instruments in a sink that is very deep and the faucet is set very far back. This causes a lot of leaning over for us. Even with placing a foot on the ledge of the lower cupboard it creates a lot of stress on the lower back. ”

After: “[The faucet] has made our daily work easier and less painful.”

Flint/Chem Biochem Chairs


Before After

Before: “All of the chairs have no seat height adjustment and no back support. All are over 20 years old. Many faculty and staff complain of chronic back pain.”

After: “ ”

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AA/Athletics


Before After

Before: “Our Golf Mechanic needs a lift to enable him to complete his work more safely. Currently, [he] has to use jacks and jackstands to work on the underside of many vehicles on our fleet. This operation is not ideal by any means, [he] has to spend hours crawling around on the floor and twisted into very uncomfortable positions.”

After: “Our mechanic is SMILING!!! This is priceless. This is saving him time and loads to his body. ”

AA/OSEH Cart


Before After

Before: “A portable chlorinedioxide generator system is transported and used weekly to various laboratory facilities across campus. This generator weighs 91 lbs and currently has to be lifted onto and off of a 3 tiered, 4 wheeled cart. Once on location, the generator has to be removed from the top shelf of the cart to position it for use. Heavy lifting, awkward push/pull is required.”

After: “We no longer need two employees to safely lift the 90lb piece of equipment on and off of the cart which allows one individual to complete the task. This allows the other three Technicians to continue to focus on our daily certifications and repairs. We are all very busy, and can now complete more tasks during our work day as a result of the Ergonomic Grant Equipment.”

AA/Plan Op. Moving & Material Svcs.


Before After

Before: “[W]e receive reports almost daily about there discomfort in their back after doing a job that requires them to move objects up and down stairs.”

After: “ ”

UMHHC/Radiology Diagnostic Recovery


Before After

Before: “We are requesting funds to safely assist with the movement of patients and to decrease the potential of injury to staff. Multiple staff with back strains and some patients are are difficult to move with constant fear of injuring patients.”

After: “ ”

Learn more and Apply for Ergonomic Grants and Awards

at www.Mhealthy.umich.edu

Thank You!


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