MAP-01-010 HFI Management Guide - Human Factors Integration ...

Chapter 1 – HFI within Naval Capability Acquisition
1.1.1 MoD Human Factors Integration Policy
MoD spending on personnel is at least equivalent to that on equipment and the
Acquisition Handbook [Ref 2] includes an emphasis on ‘a through life systems
approach, typified by applying Whole Life Costing techniques’ and ‘effective
trade-offs between system performance, through life costs and time’. All
equipment used by the armed forces has some element of human interaction and
increasingly, the human is thought of as being part of the whole system,
stemming from the Systems Engineering view of a system.
In order to ensure that people are integrated into the system design safely,
efficiently and reliably, equipment projects are expected to undertake an
appropriate level of Human Factors Integration (HFI). For a general introduction
to HFI, see ‘Human Factors Integration: An Introductory Guide’ [Ref 3] and ‘The
MOD HFI Process Handbook’ [Ref 4], see also AMS Topic 2561 ‘Human Factors
Integration (HFI)’ [Ref 5].
HFI is a focused management process that considers the extent of human
involvement in the system under the seven areas known as domains, shown in
Figure 1-1.
HFI Domain
Manpower
Personnel
Training
Human Factors Engineering (HFE)
System Safety
Health Hazard Assessment
Organisational and Social
Figure 1-1: HFI Domains
This process also enables trade-offs between these domains, such as the effect
on safety of reducing manpower, and trade-offs with other areas such as the
necessity to balance manpower size against operational capability.
These domains map loosely to the eight Defence Lines of Development (DLOD),
see Chapter 2.
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