Mission and Values Statement

We value the roles of our University Community (faculty, staff, students). We strive to provide them with resources/expertise which will allow them to develop and implement their own ergonomics program.

The key to implementing a successful ergonomics program is offering ongoing resources, educational training, and worksite analysis to promote a healthy and productive working environment.

Our mission:

• Identify and assess needs and risk factors at university workplaces through surveys, requests, and individual workplace assessments.
• Provide ergonomics related training and education to the UVA community so that they may be empowered to implement changes to improve safety and comfort at their worksites. 

Our ergonomics task force brings together expertise from various departments within the university’s academic and medical communities to provide comprehensive guidance. Our goal is to create an ergonomically informed workforce and foster a culture where employees and students are encouraged to make practical improvements to their work environments.

We remain dedicated to help our University Community develop and implement an Ergonomics program which will comply with possible future Federal Regulations and will be specific to the users within each department.

Task Force members

Our task force combines expertise from a variety of areas within our university’s academic and medical communities to achieve excellence in providing comprehensive information. We seek to create an ergonomically empowered workforce and to promote a culture wherein employees and students are encouraged to make reasonable improvements at their worksites. Each of the following links, open in a new outlook window: