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many employees have never been given materials that speak to what is and is not healthy. We made no commitments and will discuss further internally as to whether something like that would be a good fit into our health and w ellness scope. CFS : We are working with the Fully Charged workgroup to develop a list of questions around work - life activities that may be asked by the ATO communications team at CFS. The goal is to have video clips to integrate into the Fully C harged campaign for the upcoming year. Fatigue : ZOA : W e have not started the sleep study yet. We ar e ready to deploy the study to ZOA when AJI purchases the actigraphs and signs off on the MOU. I am hopeful there will be some movement this week as I discussed this last week with AJI leadership. Academy : C urrently there is a two - hour module being taught at the academy for fatigue awareness. Our PhD has reviewed the substance and believes there is more recent information and that it could be delivered in less time. We will be working on submitting this to the Academy along with our other HP materials bein g developed. COE : There have been requests from the tech monitors in many of the COE projects to do surveys of the workforce. Tom Adcock and I will coordinate with each of the projects to streamline and consolidate these as they are presented to us. We ar e concerned about survey overload. INTEGRATED DIS PLAY SYSTEM REPLACEMENT (IDS - R) Richie Smith (N90) leads NATCA's efforts on the IDS - R project as the Article 114 Representative. Below is Mr. Smith's report. After a successful keysite release of NIDS soft ware build 3.6.1 at I90 , the build was nationally released. While each network is responsible for their own upgrade there are a few facilities that the program office would like to see up and running as soon as possible. Networks such as F11, MCO , and I90 all have experienced issues that build 3.6.1 addresses with fixes. The only way to prove the fixes is in the live environment. PHL, after many delays centered on ASOS issues, is scheduled to go IOC during the first week of March. This network has been a c hallenge to the program office in almost every imaginable way , but things seem to be straightened out and hopefully the network can move forward. The new operating system, which cont ains few operationally impactful changes, is still scheduled for a tenta tive mid - March release date. OSHA Mike Odryna (ZBW) is the Chair man of NATCA's OSHA Committee. He has provided an update for the membership. New Southwest Region OSHA Rep. Deb Stewart from Corpus Christi Tower has been appointed the Southwest Region OSH A Rep. Deb has extensive OSH knowledge from working as the OSHA Rep for her facility. Along with the OSHA Committee , Deb will continue her role as the Southwest Region CISM Rep.