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

Chapter 1 – HFI within Naval Capability Acquisition
Manpower
Personnel
Training
Human Factors
Engineering
(HFE)
System Safety
Health Hazard
Assessment
Organisational
and Social
Concerns the number of men and women,
military and civilian, required and available
to operate and maintain the system under
consideration.
Considers the aptitudes, experience, and
other human characteristics, including
body size and strength, necessary to
achieve optimum system performance.
Embraces the specification and evaluation
of the optimum combination of:
instructional systems; education; and
on-the-job training required to develop the
knowledge, skills and abilities needed by
the available personnel to operate and
maintain systems to a specified level of
effectiveness under the full range of
operating conditions.
Covers the comprehensive integration of
human characteristics into product and
system design, including all aspects of
workstation and workspace design. For
vessels it also considers accommodation
and habitability issues.
The process of applying Human Factors
expertise to minimise safety risks occurring
as a result of the system being operated or
functioning in either a normal or an
abnormal manner. The objective is to
reduce to ‘as low as reasonably
practicable’ (ALARP), the risk of injury to
service personnel (non-service persons
under some circumstances) and damage
to equipment. Often, engineering solutions
are called for. In some cases, changes to
interface design, personnel selection
criteria, training requirements, manning or
operating procedures may provide a
cost-effective alternative.
As part of System Safety considerations,
this process seeks to identify and address
conditions inherent in the operation or use
of a product that may cause death, injury,
illness, and disability or reduce the
performance of personnel (e.g. vibration,
toxic fumes, radiation, noise, shock, recoil).
The process of applying tools and
techniques drawn from organisational
psychology, information science and
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