Human Factors:

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Reasoning for analysis of Human Factors Design (ref: MIL-STD-1472F):

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Human (Factors) engineering design. Design shall reflect human engineering, life support, and biomedical factors that affect human performance, including, when applicable:

• satisfactory atmospheric conditions including composition, pressure, temperature and humidity, including safeguards against uncontrolled variability beyond acceptable limits;


• range of acoustic noise, vibration, acceleration, shock, blast, and impact forces and safeguards against uncontrolled variability beyond safe limits;


• protection from thermal, toxicological, radiological, mechanical, electrical, electromagnetic, pyrotechnic, visual, and other hazards;


• adequate space for personnel, their equipment, and free volume for the movements and activities they are required to perform during operation and maintenance tasks under both normal and emergency conditions;


• adequate physical, visual, auditory, and other communication links between personnel, and between personnel and their equipment, under both normal and emergency conditions;


• efficient arrangement of operation and maintenance workplaces, equipment, controls, and displays;


• provisions for ensuring safe, efficient task performance under reduced and elevated gravitational forces with safeguards against injury, equipment damage and disorientation;


• adequate natural or artificial illumination for the performance of operation, control, training, and maintenance;


• safe and adequate passageways, hatches, ladders, stairways, platforms, inclines, and other provisions for ingress, egress, and passage under normal, adverse, and emergency conditions;


• provision of acceptable personnel accommodations including body support and restraint, seating, rest, and sustenance, i.e., oxygen, food, water, and waste management;


• provision of non-restrictive personal life support and protective equipment;


• provisions for minimizing psycho-physiological stress effects of mission duration and fatigue;


• design features to assure rapidity, safety, ease and economy of operation and maintenance in normal, adverse and emergency maintenance environments;


• satisfactory remote handling provisions and tools;


• adequate emergency systems for contingency management, escape, survival and rescue;


• compatibility of the design, location and layout of controls, displays, workspaces, maintenance accesses, stowage provisions, passenger compartments, allocated tasks, and control movements with the clothing and personal equipment to be worn by personnel operating, riding in, or maintaining military systems or equipment;


• design of work stations should be considered in all human-machine interfaces for operation on the move, where applicable.