Originally Posted by
Thom Walker
OMG! If these first two directives aren't cases of lawyers gone wild, I don't know what is. This falls right in there with the sticker inside windshield screens that tells the owner not to operate the vehicle with it in place.
As soon as finish with the "Ground Up" project I'm starting a new Country. Any law, policy, or procedure that takes more than one type written, double space, 12 font page won't be allowed.
This is a door opener for god's sake! . . . .
I ended my former career as "Director of Compliance" with a medical device manufacturer and servicer. It was my job to know and understand certain portions of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), explain the regs to executive management, and devise ways that our departments could meet the requirements for doing what the government said to do and documenting the fact that we did it.
The CFR is an unwieldy thing, so the guv (the FDA, at least), in its attitude of helpfulness, also publishes a "Commentary" on certain of its regulations. One reg and commentary with which I became familiar was 21 CFR 820, The "Quality System Regulation" (formerly known as the Good Manufacturing Practices regulation for medical devices.)
The regulation itself was 12 pages of small font, three column geek-speak. The Commentary, which explained to us what they
really meant, was closer to 50 pages.
I like this job better.