Re: Policies & Procedures Manual questions

["Peter Neilson" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

It depends, somewhat, on the purpose of the manual. If it is to sit on a  
shelf then the organization and perhaps even the content do not matter, as  
long as it fills the requirements. ("This book fills a much-needed gap in  
the literature.")

If people are going to use it as a catechism, quoting the rule without  
understanding, the justification can be buried.

If the readers will need to understand the justification before they have  
much hope of buying into the rule, the two should be together.

As an example of this last kind of document, I remind myself of the NFPA's  
National Electrical Code or of "Dangerous Properties of Industrial  
Materials" by Irving Sax, both of which provide at least some degree of  
justification for their safety rules.

The last time I wrote a P&P Manual it was a "useless" but required book,  
but in the course of developing it I discovered that the client had no  
procedure for retrieving door keys from terminated employees. The powers  
that beed quickly wrote one.

On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:21:10 -0500, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com>  
wrote: