Crj-900 flight attendant reported discovering that the tsa had affixed a security seal over the pass...

Narrative:

Upon preflight of the forward lavatory; I noticed that tsa had placed a security seal across the drop down oxygen masks which would prevent them from functioning in a decompression. I notified my captain and maintenance (who was on board for other issues). Maintenance removed the seal and stated that they were not supposed to be sealed shut.tsa is not informed or educated on what exactly needs to be inspected and sealed. They are tampering with and disabling safety equipment on numerous aircraft daily. The company does not have a policy or procedure to prevent this from happening or to inspect all AC every morning to make sure the lavatory O2 masks are not disabled by tsa security tape.1. Tsa needs to stop tampering with and disabling lavatory safety equipment.2. The company needs to come up with a 1st flight of the day plan to inspect and remove misapplied security seals that disable lavatory O2 masks that does not involve a 30 minute delay with mx and multiple personnel.3. The company needs to disseminate a directive to check and remove seals before someone is injured or worse from lack of functioning safety equipment.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ-900 Flight Attendant reported discovering that the TSA had affixed a security seal over the passenger oxygen door in the forward lavatory likely rendering it inoperative. Maintenance removed the seal.

Narrative: Upon preflight of the forward lavatory; I noticed that TSA had placed a security seal across the drop down oxygen masks which would prevent them from functioning in a decompression. I notified my Captain and Maintenance (who was on board for other issues). Maintenance removed the seal and stated that they were not supposed to be sealed shut.TSA is not informed or educated on what exactly needs to be inspected and sealed. They are tampering with and disabling safety equipment on numerous aircraft daily. The company does not have a policy or procedure to prevent this from happening or to inspect all AC every morning to make sure the lavatory O2 masks are not disabled by TSA security tape.1. TSA needs to stop tampering with and disabling lavatory safety equipment.2. The Company needs to come up with a 1st flight of the day plan to inspect and remove misapplied security seals that disable lavatory O2 masks that does not involve a 30 minute delay with MX and multiple personnel.3. The Company needs to disseminate a directive to check and remove seals before someone is injured or worse from lack of functioning safety equipment.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1375391
Time
Date	201607
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 900 (CRJ900)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Oxygen System/Pax
Person 1
Function	Flight Attendant (On Duty)
Qualification	Flight Attendant Current
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown

Crj-900 flight attendant reported discovering that the tsa had affixed a security seal over the passenger oxygen door in the forward lavatory likely rendering it inoperative. Maintenance removed the seal.