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Design and delivery of Human Performance Training at the Academy to include Fatigue (what it is, how to manage it etc.), Health and Wellness (how to balance life issues so they don't impact your learning or safety in your career) and Human Factors (What is HF? How can I embed HF techniques into my learning to make my chances of success greater? How can HF make me a safer controller and what techniques can I use in controllin g etc .?) With the large influx of new personnel being introduced into the operation in the coming three years, we feel development and implementation of this material is necessary sooner rather than later in order to reach a new generation of the workforc e. This work should be moved up on our priority list and would require an " all hands on deck " approach to develop and deliver ASAP. We would also insist on delivering this and that is going to require more HP professionals. I have been working very closely with Tom Adcock every time I venture into his sandbox and we have an excellent working relationship. ATO HUMAN PERFORMANCE ROUNDTABLE Develop a charter to coordinate HF research and activities across the ATO and provide that coordination, run the meeting s, brief HF Research committees, coordinate the desired research with research organizations such as Human Factors Division in ANG - C1. Currently the HF component of N extGen doesn't really get involved in the operation, or if they do , they many times go aro und us. We want to direct this involvement from the HP office so the operation is considered earlier on in the process. TOP 5 Provide Human Factors Support to FY17 Top 5 as well as continuing activities from FY16 and FY15. RUNWAY SAFETY Support to Runway Safety Call to Action Plan. AJI leadership is interested in us analyzing the HF that may be in play during runway incursions. This will require extensive field interviews and data collection using Human Factors taxonomies instead of the blame game tactics that have resulted in little to no understanding of what is occurring. ERC HF TRAINING It is believed the ERCs could benefit from HF training while reviewing the ATSAP reports. This would be an educational and hands - on effort to assist them in reviewing reports. I have discussed this with Steve Hans e n and he is on board and believes this is a good idea. Our problem is the practicality and logistics of delivering it. HUMAN PERFORMANCE RISKS AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES IN THE NAS This is in the HPT business goals. Develop procedures, tools, templates , and training to consistently integrate Human Performance approach to safety investigations and evaluations. Integrate Human Performance into Compliance Services and QA teamwork processes. Meeting this goal will require closely working investigations teams. This would include training on how to integrate HF principles into their investigations, accompanying them on field visits and assistance with HF analysis after data collection. These groups have been resistant to include NATCA in the past, but I am going there anyway, with Hansen's support.