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• The human factors office activities include: o The certification standards for N90 are completed and an implementation plan is being develope d. Currently the implementation is still on track for a June training of the FLMs and c ontrollers and July implementation. o Development of the OJTI Cadre class will begin May 10th in DFW. Mr. Barrett will be attending and assisting in this. o We have had a n umber of conversations with leaders across the world who work in the resilience engineering space. We are working on a plan on how to move forward with using RE to analyze and recommend safety system adjustments based on the positive stresses that are prev alent in the NAS everyday. Much more to come on this. o Mr. Barrett and his FAA Co - Lead will be visiting HCF 3rd week of June to do an assessment of their facility issues. We will also provide some leadership and teamwork training to the E - Board and Manageme nt team. o We have set a date to begin working with ZNY on performing a training assessment similar to that we are doing at N90. This is to begin the end of May. o Tom Adcock and Mr. Barrett are working in a group that is reviewing a list of 39 poor performing facilities from a training perspective. These facilities have been identified as taking too long to certify or are below the average time to certification for similar facilities. This effort is in data collection stage. • The Health and Wellness activities: o Mr. Barrett had some questions from the last PFS Telcon where the content we delivered was about the health and wellness opportunities available through EAP and Magellan. The concern was about counselors reporting back to the FAA. Mr. Barrett contacted M agellan and CISM chair Chris Schenk did the research on the FAA contract with Magellan and federal and stat e law as well as our contract. Mr. Barrett thinks it is well known about drug and alcohol situations, but not for use of general H & W activities. M r. Barrett has this information available, but has not decided on the most appropriate avenue to disseminate it yet. o Mike O'Dry na (OSHA), Troy Diedrich (ARR FacRep) , and Mr. Barrett have started a weekly t elcon to discuss updates on the progress toward get ting ARR a temporary trailer and ultimately a new base building. So far the hops is making repairs to water, restroom , and soundproofing. We have a general consensus they need an adequate break room and classroom facilities and that a temporary trailer wil l be needed until a decision is made concerning lease expiration in 2018. NAS VOICE SYSTEM (NVS): Jon Shedden (ZFW) represents NATCA as the NVS Article 48 Representative. Mr. Shedden forwarded the information below for the membership. • NAS Voice Systems (NVS) demo labs are currently running on Build 11, with Build 12 currently in development (these are beta builds). This is the beginning of the final development stretch leading into Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) scheduled to begin in November 2016.