This article describes some of the institutions and agencies contributing to the development and practice of ergonomics in Canada. Ergonomics (from the Greek ἔργον, meaning ‘work’, and νόμος, meaning ‘natural law’) is the study of the relation between a person (the operator) and the means used by the operator to perform a task.The task may be (and in the early days of the discipline was restricted to) an industrial or occupational task, like operating a lathe or driving a vehicle or (since those early days) monitoring a computer-controlled operation, but it may also take the form of playing a sport, pursuing a hobby, or conducting an everyday task such as crossing a street.The means used may vary accordingly, from a lathe or car or operator-computer interface to running shoes or bird-watch