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Maintenance lead inspector reported a step was being skipped during lavatory faucet sanitation procedures.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1760576 |
| Time | |
| Date | 202009 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Toilet Furnishing |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Inspector |
| Qualification | Maintenance Powerplant Maintenance Airframe |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Maintenance |
Narrative:
In compliance with the FAA directives for water sanitation due to time constraints we started to just replace the lav faucets with serviceable units from stock. The manual requires a 24 hour soak in sanitizer and ron work this cannot be complied with so we sent them to the shop for this. It was discovered that when in the shop this step was being left out because work was being done per MM and it lacks the sanitation step. This was brought to quality control and shop management. The answer was to send these out to a vendor who still follows the MM and they are still not getting the required sanitation step.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Maintenance Lead Inspector reported a step was being skipped during lavatory faucet sanitation procedures.
Narrative: In compliance with the FAA directives for water sanitation due to time constraints we started to just replace the lav faucets with serviceable units from stock. The manual requires a 24 hour soak in sanitizer and RON work this cannot be complied with so we sent them to the shop for this. It was discovered that when in the shop this step was being left out because work was being done per MM and it lacks the sanitation step. This was brought to quality control and shop management. The answer was to send these out to a vendor who still follows the MM and they are still not getting the required sanitation step.
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.