The Maintenance Training Association of America (MTAA) is a non-profit organization
founded
in 2004. It was established to promote uniform standards of quality for training services
and products provided to professionals responsible for performing and assuring maintenance
in commercial and industrial facilities and environments.
Membership and certification is elective, and open to any organization and individual
with an interest in supporting, complying with and promoting MTAA's objectives.
MTAA welcomes and encourages membership from all maintenance industry training and
education providers, scholastic institutions and affiliates, instructors, equipment
manufacturers, maintenance service and supply companies, professional maintenance
managers and workers, and allied trade industries, organizations and media.
Objectives
- Establish, adopt and recognize industry-wide accepted standards for the quality
of services and products provided by the maintenance training and education industry.
- Craft and sustain a dynamic model of quality standards for training services and
products specific to the unique workplace applications, needs and challenges of
the maintenance trades industry.
- Provide a suitable forum for industry-wide discussion, oversight and advancement
of maintenance industry training media, technologies and applications.
- Certify training and education providers, services and products that comply with
MTAA standards.
- Identify and recognize those training and education providers whose curricula, content
development and training methodologies comply with CEU standards.
- Promote and encourage widespread patronage of MTTA certified training sources, services
and products.
- Provide maintenance trades professionals with topical information and reference
resources in support of maintenance trades career development, the pursuit and acquisition
of excellence in applied skills competence, and the critical need for heightened
awareness of and regular adherence to personal safety and legal practices in the
work environment.
- Establish and maintain an industry-representative, executive MTAA body that effectively
and successfully champions the common and collective vested interests of the maintenance
trades training community as relates to the respective interests of the allied industries
it serves, as is appropriate to engaging the legislative environment of the day,
and as may impact public welfare and safety.