Maintenance engineering or the sustaining of technology and structures after their design and installation is often not seen as the fun, sexy part of engineering with tasks doled out to inexperienced or less qualified colleagues in some organizations or occasionally not involving an engineer at all, however, it is just as critical to the health and safety of the public as any initial design is. | https://cnn.it/4hP5v2S
I have no special information as to what causes this investigation is likely to uncover, but it would not be surprising to find insufficient engineering attention paid to failure or anomaly reports, the design of maintenance schedules in light of that information, or changes or modifications to the initial design. Risk management depends on giving appropriately qualified people the time to consider the implications of the information available to them. We will likely conclude in this case that we did a poor job of that and it cost us a man’s life. We are getting away with that same inattention right now in dozens or hundreds of similar cases by good luck that won’t last forever.
