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SAFENET ID:
20200213-0001
Event Start Date:
02/12/2020 1000
Event Stop Date:
 
Incident Name:
Brakes below saftey specifications, and not approved by GSA
Fire Number:
 
State:
California
Jurisdiction:
USFS
Local Unit:
Incident Type:
All Hazard
Incident Activity:
Readiness/Preparedness
Stage of Incident:
Other
Position Title:
Fleet Maintenance Inspector 
Task:
 
Management Level:
N/A
Resources Involved:
 
Contributing Factors
Contributing Factors:
Other
Human Factors:
 
Other Factors:
Daily operation of a GSA Vehicle 
Narrative
Describe in detail what happened including the concern or potential issue, the environment (weather, terrain, fire behavior, etc), and the resulting health issue.
A GSA Vehicle was taken to an approved Vendor for routine service including an Annual Inspection.
During this inspection the Vendor noticed that the brakes pads had 20% life left. Our Fleet Maintenance procedure is to replace if less than 50%.
The Vendor called the GSA number to get a pre approval for the brake job. The GSA personnel denied the brake job and sent the operator down the road with brakes significantly under our safety parameters.
Immediate Action Taken
Reporting Individual : please describe actions you took to correct or mitigate the unsafe/unhealthful event.
The Fleet Maintenance Inspector randomly caught this scenario and advised the operator to take Vehicle to another Vendor to see if they can get the brake job approved.
Then FMI isn't typically involved with the inspections, and or repairs of the GSA Vehicle.


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