The ATSB received comment from the reporter to these responses and a further question was sent to Airservices.  The reporter thanks Air Services for their response and looks forward to viewing the Terms of Reference of the operational implementation of the system. The reporter welcomes that the review found that ATC’s should take a more active role in the tactical risk assessment process and selection of controls and has asked if consideration has been given to include individual ATC’s signing off on the controls and also signing off that the controls have been applied? Airservices…

The ATSB received comments from the reporter to these responses and further questions were sent to Airservices.  The following is a summary of these questions: Whilst it is understandable that Airservices would expect instances of sleeping on console to be reported, many are hesitant to do so in fear of repercussions. There has also been more than one occasion where controllers have tried to report this occurrence however have then been asked for date, time and name of the colleague who fell asleep. Many are unwilling to continue the report as they don’t want their colleague to be…