Abstract: The layout design of fire engine equipments directly affects firefighters' battle
efficiency and their personal safety and health. On the basis of analyzing the man-machine
engineering of fire engine's equipments layout space, combined with the arrangement principles,
"human" factors and the type of fire engine's equipments, this paper proposes design principles of
space design and equipment layout. Taking certain type of truck equipment layout design as an
example, the improved scheme is verified reasonable by the visual and reachable domain analysis
on layout with the application of the JACK software.

Key words: ergonomics, fire fighting truck, layout optimization, Jack