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software is customizable, but also very pricey. ($15/employee / month) Mr. Barrett is not hopeful that it will get anywhere with the FSSC. • The human factors office activities include: o The new certification standards work at N90 is progressing and we should have a fully vetted set of standards by the middle of February. It has bee n agreed to with the facility leadership and ANGC - 1 (conducting the work) that two areas will be fully trained and the next 8 new arrivals will be placed in the new standards certification path. It remains to be worked out how the rest of the trainees will transition , if at all. This will require an MOU and waiver from Terry Biggio (FAA VP) for them to move forward. Mr. Barrett is coordinating these activities for completion before June. o The teamwork training Mr. Barrett referred to last update has been rou ghed out and we will call it Teamwork Resource Management (TRM). We have partnered with the CWG/IBC group to develop a product that is appropriate for delivery to the workforce and not just facility leadership. The entire course will focus on the attribute s of highly effective teams and how teams that work collaboratively are safer, more efficient and more successful than those that do not. o We attended a briefing on SIRAP analysis that is being rolled out in TechOps. This is an analysis process that assign s values to events in accordance with the SMS process. It has a red, yellow, green matrix and seeks to identify those events that increase the risk profile in the NAS. We will be developing something very similar for the HPT to use in analyzing ATSAP report s and system events going forward. This is another to - do on our development waterfall. We are hopeful that when the next support contract is awarded for AJI that the Ft. Hill group will be included and provide us with the much - needed support for developmen t of this. They developed the SIRAP process for TechOps. o The i ndividual training assessment we performed at the request of the WSA ERC in November has stalled and our office appears to be powerless in forcing the facility to conduct the agreed upon trainin g. We have kicked the issue back to the ERC for them to deal with. The HPT has been afforded no authority other than to provide assessment, analysis , and suggested training. We will be discussing this further with Mr. Biggio this week. We did , however, mem orialize the process and develop a generic protocol to be followed should we be asked to provide this type of support somewhere else. o We attended an all day briefing at MITRE and received information on all the programs they have that relate to what the HP T may decide to address in the future. Our intent was to develop a partnership where they can assist this office in accomplishing its mission. Much more to follow here. o We have been asked to do facility assessments at C90, A80 , and D10 to uncover whether t here are systemic training and/or cultural issues that may be responsible for each facilities low certification rates. This will begin in February. o Later this week , Mr. Demagalski and Mr. Barrett will brief the NTSB on the organization and scope of the Hum an Performance office. Our hope is to develop a working relationship with them going forward.