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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT AIRPORT CAPACITY DEC ISION SUPPORT TOOL (ADEST): Kristen Laubach represents the membership as the Artic le 48 Representative for ADEST. Her report is below. There haven't been any significant changes in the past month for Airport Capacity Decision Support Tool (A DEST). The tea m had one telcon on August 22. A preliminary version of ADEST LAX was developed but the team found problems with the arrival/departure configurations so it was sent back to the programmers to fix the issues. We continue to test ADEST SFO. Lastly, the te am began discussions for the programming and development of ADEST PHL. HUMAN PERFORMANCE : Jay Barrett (MIA) is the Article 48 Repres entative for Human Performance. His report is below. The fatigue office activities include: Work continues to progress on the Alertness app. I believe we are in the final stages of development. It has been a difficult process to test it as each time we find more items we want changed or fixed. Our rebase lining effort for the fatigue modeling is complete. The FSSC may be mov ing in the direction of doing away with the fatigue Hazard Score (FHz) in the near future due to the non - linear nature , i .e. , a score of 6 is not twice as bad as a score of 3. The move would be toward a risk matrix similar to the SMS process. Jeff Richards and I met with the ZOA delegation at the convention and worked on a plan to move forward to address the current schedules they are working that are modeling worse than the proposed schedules. The idea would be for them to get a waiver to the 7210.3 BWS fat igue rules until they are staffed well enough. The estimate would be for two years. We are working on an international fatigue benchmarking survey for all international ANSPs. We would collect data on the fatigue mitigation processes, schedules, level of col laboration, etc. We expect to complete this next year with an eye toward hosting a fatigue symposium for air traffic. There are yearly conferences for the flight and duty side, but not for ATC. The human factors office activities include: The N90 certifica tion standards are completed and agreed upon . I have seen a final draft of the checklists and I believe they are at a final level of done. We are having a planning meeting tomorrow to discuss how the training will be implemented. Proposed start date for N90 to go live with the standards is January. We had another opportunity to work with the OJTI workgroup on the cadre - training portion. I was in error when I said that they did not use our materials. It was the FAA side that didn't want to use them. I believe this is a good product and look forward to seeing it rolled out. A decision has not been made as to the level of support we will provide to HCF. We need to meet with ZNY to determine what level of assistance we will provide them. We had a conversation with AJI concerning the academy training that is provided to new hires. The HPT office would like to add modules that include HF and H&W to inform students what to expect in their careers from a human performance perspective. We are supposed to deliver a propo sal to Mary ASAP. The Health and Wellness activities: The ARR tower issue is stalled. We are experiencing severe lack of action by the Agency. I will more than likely have to ask for help from Paul and Trish.