Sorry for the delay...
I’m not in this particular field of engineering, but know quite a few Health Facilities Maintenance engineers. Based on conversations with those folks, if one of the hospitals had an Operating Theater ventilation fault within ten percent of the magnitude of the incidents you’ve related, there would be blood running ankle deep down the hallway to the Engineering offices and people would be getting rapid escorts out of the building if not directly to jail.
...”huge dings on the record”???????
Do these people think they’re playing some kind of game???
Right. Again, perhaps one Federal agency we really should expect perfection from. Much akin to localized debates about Citizens Review Boards relative to local police, we should really be talking about removing the government's 'right' to investigate itself. Unfortunately now that includes Justice.
There is no easy answer, but the questions should keep on coming...