Repair Center Directory, Time Out For Safety Award

The 2004 Aviation Maintenance Repair Center Directory, for the first time, is available on the Internet. Now users can access the directory on the World Wide Web at www.directorypub.com/am, and companies can add and update their listing at the same web site.

This service is FREE, and Aviation Maintenance welcomes participation by any aircraft maintenance company that provides maintenance services, both FAA and JAA repair stations and non-certificated maintenance companies, located anywhere in the world. We are also creating a section for free supplier listings. Plus, any company is welcome to create an enhanced listing for their company for a reasonable fee. Details are available at the URL above.

Please take advantage of this free opportunity to have your company listing published in the Aviation Maintenance Repair Center Directory. And if your company is not in this issue or if your company's listing is not accurate, please make sure to add your information or update your company's listing as soon as possible.

Time Out For Safety, 2003 Winner and a New Award: The announcement of the winner of the annual Aviation Maintenance Time Out For Safety Award now coincides with publication of the Repair Center Directory. You can read all about the 2003 winner of this prestigious maintenance industry award on page 6 of this issue.

The Time Out For Safety Award was created to honor and recognize an aviation mechanic for a specific act of maintenance safety. The most professional mechanics always keep safety as their number-one priority and they don't succumb to management pressure to get the job out the door no matter the cost in cut corners or reduced safety margins. The Time Out For Safety Award rewards a deserving mechanic for upholding the principles of the Award, meeting the highest demands and keeping large margins of maintenance safety.

For 2004, we are seeking nominations from anyone in the aviation industry who has observed a mechanic applying the principles of Time Out For Safety, or taking the time to find that problem and making sure it gets fixed. New for 2004 is an additional award, the Time Out For Safety–Manager Award. The Manager Award takes Time Out For Safety one step further, rewarding managers who encourage their mechanics to keep safety as their highest priority and who make sure that maintenance teams have the resources they need to do the job right, no matter how much cost-cutting pressure they face. The winner of the Time Out For Safety–Manager Award is not the manager who is the best friend of every mechanic, nor is he or she the manager who gets the biggest bonus at the end of the year. Rather, winning managers treat their mechanics with dignity and respect, provide and maintain the equipment needed, keep a safe workplace, make sure working conditions are comfortable, obtain training for mechanics, help mechanics grow their careers and develop their skills, and keep the bosses in the corner office happy.

To submit a fellow mechanic or a deserving manager for the Time Out For Safety–Mechanic Award and the Manager Award, find a blank form at www.aviationmx.com or e-mail am@pbimedia.com, and we'll send you the form. Or see the advertisement on page 71. The winners of the 2004 Time Out For Safety Awards will be announced next January (2005).