Absolutely right ! I know - I've been there and it was the coroners first question !
But surely everything needs servicing and how much servicing is required or the content of that servicing, doesn't affect how likely the equipment is to cause someone serious harm. Some equipment which requires absolute minimal servicing - because it's all surface-mount components and no moving parts - has the potential to kill, whereas equipment which has to be dismantled, cleaned, have new valves fitted, new filters installed, re-assembled, performance tested and safety tested twice a year (depending on use) couldn't kill anyone if it tried (unless it caught fire, but then almost anything has the potential to do that !).
I understood that the risk scoring was for everyone's benefit, not just us technicians to tell us what our servicing priorities are. It's extremely useful for equipment trainers and clinical risk managers, to name but two and they aren't in the slightest bit interested in what we do when we service the equipment.
If we were just considering an internal system peculiar to EBME or Med Elec or Med Phys, I'd agree with you 100% - but I don't believe we are - or at least I don't think we should be.
