What these things do is provide a document or framework of documents that corporate management can point to and say you didn't follow the required guidelines while doing your job when something goes south and costs the company money. They use these things as documentation to fire employees, not to improve quality.
Originally Posted by
1967brutus
I know all about it: My job is plagued by that paper idiocracy: Checklists, workpermits, risk assesments (and if you look a bit closer, a workpermit basically IS a standardized riskassesment), logs, workhistories, very complicated computer programs to keep track of everything, plan work, etc etc etc, and none of it has even done ONE Iota to reduce mishaps and accidents, but what these things do, is keep people away from thinking for themselves, from using their knowledge, experience and intuition.