MIL-STD-1472G Department of Defense Design Criteria: Human Engineering

The MIL-STD-1472G standard, developed by the US Department of Defense, describes general human engineering criteria for the design and development of military systems, equipment, and facilities. The purpose of this International Standard is human engineering design criteria, principles and practices to optimize system performance, taking full account of inherent human capabilities and limitations, with the aim of more effectively integrating humans as part of the system, subsystems, equipment and facilities to achieve mission success. is to present.

The MIL-STD-1472G standard applies to the design of all systems, subsystems, equipment, and facilities, except where aircraft design provisions conflict with crew system design requirements. Unless specified otherwise in specific provisions, this standard applies to the design of systems, subsystems, equipment and facilities used by both men and women.

Where manufacturing tolerances are not user-detectable, this standard should not be interpreted as precluding the use of components whose dimensions are within the normal manufacturing upper or lower limit tolerance of the dimensions specified here.

The general requirements in the MIL-STD-1472G standard are determined as follows:

• working environment. Military systems, equipment and facilities must provide effective procedures, working patterns, and working and living environments that promote personnel safety, health and survivability.
• Performance drop. Military systems, equipment, and facilities must minimize factors that reduce human performance or increase error.
• User capabilities. Design-driven requirements for user workload, accuracy, time constraint, cognitive processing, and communication should not exceed user capabilities.
• task performance. The design should allow for accurate and efficient task performance, ensuring that system performance requirements are met.
• Personnel, training and skills requirements. The design should optimize personnel, training and skill requirements within the constraints of time, cost, and performance tradeoffs.
• System manpower. The design should optimize system manpower by determining the minimum number of personnel required, consistent with system performance requirements, human performance, workload and security requirements, and constraints on reliability, affordability, and risk.

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