Published: September 15, 2020

This standard establishes general human engineering criteria for design and development of military systems, equipment, and facilities. Human engineering is one of seven domains of human-systems integration (as defined in the DoD 5000 series) and is synonymous with human factors engineering. The purpose of this standard is to present human engineering design criteria, principles, and practices to be applied in the design of systems, equipment, and facilities so as to:

Achieve required performance by operator, control, and maintenance personnel.
Achieve required manpower readiness for system performance.
Achieve required reliability of personnel-equipment combinations.
Foster design standardization within and among systems.

This standard does not alter requirements for system development participation of human engineering specialists to interpret and implement these practices and to provide solutions to human engineering problems that arise and are not specifically covered.

Superseded MIL-STD-1472G w/Change 1 of 17 January 2019

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