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NATCA President Paul Rinaldi presented the Steve Hansen Safety Advocate Award on Tuesday. This award was first given in 2011 to NATCA Safety Commi ee Chair Steve Hansen, and is presented each year to a NATCA member who has made extraordinary achievements and worked relessly on NATCA's behalf to be a leader in furthering avia on safety. The award was presented to NATCA Runway Safety Rep Bridget Singratanakul (Gee) for her excep onal work in represen ng the Union in collabora ve efforts with the FAA and avia on stakeholders to address the need to improve safety on the runways, taxiways, and surface areas of the NAS. NATCA National Professionalism Award: Ray 'Murl' Peters, Deborah Anderson, and Theresa Boykin The goal of NATCA's Professional Standards program is to maintain and promote professionalism across all of NATCA's bargaining units. NATCA members achieve this through a commitment to safety and through upholding the public's trust. They work to inspire, to mo vate, to provide personal examples of our professionalism to others, and to maintain the highest standard of excellence. They know their ac ons represent all of their fellow professionals, and we work to bring honor and respect to all that they do. The NATCA Na onal Professional Standards Commi ee (PSC) created the NATCA Na onal Professionalism Award as a means to recognize the ac ons of those who con nually strive to achieve these goals. Congratula ons to this year's winners, Ray 'Murl' Peters (GEG), Deborah Anderson (ZID), and Theresa Boykin (ILG) now at N90. Helping Hearts: Pensacola ATCT and Pensacola TRACON In 2014, NATCA introduced the Helping Hearts Award to recognize facili es with the highest percentage of people trained to administer Cardiopulmonary Resuscita on (CPR) and to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). At CFS on Tuesday, the NATCA OSHA Commi ee honored Pensacola ATCT (PNS) and Pensacola TRACON (P31) for having 65 percent of employees trained in 2017. Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) con nues to be the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming nearly 350,000 lives each year, but the use of AEDs with onsite CPR helps boost the survival rate of SCA vic ms to 50-75 percent. Great job, PNS & P31! Team Excellence Award The NATCA Team Excellence Award was created to recognize NATCA teams, workgroups, or commi ees that exemplify the true collec ve spirit of working together to achieve greatness. One of the 2018 Team Excellence awards was presented to No- Experience Direct Hire Ini al Screen (NDIS) Team members Jim Dyckman (N90), Daniel Foster (D10), Marc Schneider (ZID), Maurice Franklin (PCT), and Leah Montes (SCT). The NDIS workgroup developed a collabora ve approach for the FAA and NATCA to address the challenges of placing employees with no prior ATC experience into level 10 and above terminal RADAR facili es. A second 2018 Team Excellence award was presented to 3120.4 Rewrite Team members Jimmy Lake (HCF), Andreas Sanchez (DFW), and Trevor Thompson (ZJX). The workgroup was established to collabora vely address reviewing, revising, and making recommen- da ons for changes to the na onal training order (3120.4). COMMUNICATING FOR SAFETY Wednesday, Oct. 24 9

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