Document ID: DoE-Hdbk-1140-2001
Title: Human Factors⁄Ergonomics Handbook for the Design for Ease of Maintenance
This document is intended to ensure that DOE systems, subsystems, equipment, and facilities are designed to promote their maintainability. These guidelines are concerned with design features of DOE facilities that can potentially affect preventive and corrective maintenance of systems within DOE facilities. Maintenance includes inspecting, checking, troubleshooting, adjusting, replacing, repairing, and servicing activities. This handbook also addresses other factors that influence maintainability, such as repair and maintenance support facilities including hotshops, maintenance information, and various aspects of the environment and worker health and safety. This standard is to be applied to the system design of DOE systems, subsystems, equipment and facilities to:
- Reduce the need for and frequency of design-dictated maintenance.
- Reduce system⁄equipment down-time.
- Reduce design-dictated maintenance support costs.
- Limit maintenance personnel requirements.
- Reduce the potential for maintenance error.
- Assure use of standard procedures, equipment, and tools, when possible.
This standard serves as a reference and may be cited contractually in system specification and requirements to form a basis for evaluation of the human-machine interface.
The Handbook DOE-HDBK-1140-2001 Human Factors⁄Ergonomics Handbook for the Design for Ease of Maintenance has been separated into three sections for ease of downloading.
