On 3/7/2015 3:20 AM, John Allen wrote:
as safety and regs compliance are often seen as unnecessary cost/time/manpower burdens, and which don’t contribute to the on-time & to-budget delivery of projects, then they are thus “obvious” targets for doing as little, and as cheaply, as possible.
Compliance can be sporadically an emergency (and thus well funded and promoted), later routine, and finally too much trouble to keep maintaining and paying for. Sometimes there's a massive cleanup and anything not used for a few months (years? decades? [heh]) is unceremoniously sent to the scrap yard. It may be worth noting that facilities and workplace safety and labor practices, conflicts of interest, ITAR and contract financial compliance are major parts of mandatory employee training just about everywhere.Design compliance (and safety) are already required by the contracts to deliver goods.
There is a very good reason for intelligent processes intelligently applied, and plenty of reason to avoid unintelligent processes, applied with a trowel and followed by rote. It costs much less, however, to do things right than to recover from doing them wrong. IMO!
OT: FWIW, from time to time I've saved employers money using "back-room" equipment, and they were lucky, as hardly anyone else in engineering knew how to use it. That's perhaps another thread for another time, but where engineering tests are the object and a good calibration not really needed (I was once taken to task for using an uncalibrated paperclip) then, if I can't convince another department to loan something out, I might drag in personal TE to make up for the lack of "back room" gear no longer present.
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