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opportunities and the sense of fulfillment employees receive from their work. o Financial - elements that impact employees in providing now and in the future. o Nutrition – keeping our bodies physically healthy as well as our minds. o The final subject for the overall HPT is to bring the concept of "Resilience Engineering" to our activities. RE centers on the concept of concentrating on activities that worked or are working rather than on failures in the system. It also includes an analysis to understand individual and organizational variability with a keen eye toward the joint cognitive systems of the people and organization. RUNWAY SAFETY: Ric Loewen (DFW) serves as the Runway Safety Action Team (RSAT) and Root Cause Analysis Team (RCAT) Representative for NATCA. Below is Mr. Loewen's update for the membership. · Runway Status Lights (RWSL): o In the past month the RWSL program has commissioned the system at LAX and achieved Initial Operating Capability (IOC) at EWR and JFK. The JFK system is being brought on line in two phases so work is on going for phase 2. Planning and construction are on going at ORD, DTW, BWI, and SFO. o The Program Management Office (PMO) was able to secure funding to explore means to convert the prototype systems at BOS and DFW to the final deployment version of the system. Work is in progress to secure agreement with those two airport operators for that scope of work. Local NATCA SMEs have been collaborating with their counterparts in the Agency, Tech Ops, local Airport Boards, and the PMO to assist the RWSL program in providing system designs that best meet their needs. · Runway Safety: o Surface Memory aids: The Document Change Proposal (DCP) to 7210.3 para. 10-1-7 requiring the use of a standardized memory aid for runway status (closed/inactive), runway crossings, vehicle, personnel, or equipment on active runway(s), land and hold short operations (LAHSO), line up and wait (LUAW), and landing clearance is approved and scheduled to be effective May 26, 2016. o The goal of the DCP is to provide for a national standard for memory aids to reduce human factors induced risks when employees transfer to new facilities as well as provide a repeatable and trainable standard that should reduce incidents stemming from a shortcoming in human memory – that it can become overloaded and information inadvertently dropped due to workload or distraction. o Although a very basic list of memory aids is provided by means of a toolbox that is now a part of Cedar, there is a means by which facilities can submit their "non conforming" memory aids for review and possible inclusion in the toolbox. This procedure will hopefully assist with the dissemination of good ideas that today are hiding in towers because there was no standard. · Closed Runway Occupancy Prevention Device (CROPD): Along with Steve Hansen (Safety Rep), Jim Ullmann (S&T), and Jeff Woods (PMO Rep), Mr.

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