Employee allegations and company reports suggest that the root cause of the Prudhoe Bay problem may have been inadequate maintenance and inspection practices and management's failure to heed warnings of potential corrosion problems.
"Inadequate maintenance of the lift meant that the accident which killed Ms Woja really was an accident waiting to happen".
Inadequate maintenance caused hundreds of fire hydrants to freeze, hampering efforts to put out fires that consumed a church and other buildings.
ChevronTexaco also says that the state oil company PetroEcuador was the lead investor in all Texaco Petroleum's operations in the area and insists that PetroEcuador has carried out environmentally unsound practices -- including poor spill prevention and inadequate maintenance -- for more than 10 years, since taking over operation of the fields.
Similarly 36% of FAA fines and legal actions involve inadequate maintenance, with recent years showing a decline to about 20%, which may be a reflection of improved maintenance practices.
But, in practice, many CMDB projects have suffered from poor planning, deficient operation, inadequate maintenance, which seriously hinder the effectiveness of ITSM.
"We found inadequate maintenance or repair, or contamination or other mechanical damage," he said.
Nepal's poor air safety record is largely blamed on inadequate maintenance and sub-standard management.
And an airline may not have good maintenance practices.
Gardens were shared, and maintenance practices altered.
There is lack of maintenance: roughly 13,000 highway fatalities each year, for example, are a result of inadequate maintenance of aging highways, the civil engineers say.
