• Peter Bateman
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    In the July/Aug edition of Safeguard we pose three questions based on stories in the magazine. One of them is this:

    John Skudder tells us not to create a complicated procedure when a simple one would do. What is the most unnecessarily detailed SOP you have come across, and how was it received by the workers it was aimed at?

    Feel free to respond here on the Forum, or privately here via a Survey Monkey form.

    An edited selection of responses will be published in the Sept/Oct edition, but with no names attached. One randomly selected person will receive a prize, namely a copy of the book Oops! Why Things Go Wrong, by Niall Downey.
  • Andrew
    404
    A cracker I came across a few years back was an 8 page SOP on how to get out of a ute safely

    (created after an employee sprained an ankle stepping out of the drivers seat)

    And more recently, in an attempt to keep SOP's simple they were reduced to 2 pages. By using a size #4 font.
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