Is it the time to embrace uncertainty?
I like rules because out of uncertainty they create order and predictability. However, it occurred to me during a meeting about technical standards for machinery that everything had been turned on its head. Over the years the meeting had morphed from creating and updating technical standards that made sense to industry to now interpreting laws and regulations implemented by the EU. The issue is that for many of these laws compliance with a given standard (via a regulation) is presumed conformity to the law and therefore the standard becomes a sue-do legal document. As a result creating and updating standards is becoming nearly impossible as politician wield law in the shape of their ideology only for this to be either upended by ‘the other lot’ or they realise they have screwed up so change the law again. So the standards become useable and the laws themselves become uncertain because they over prescriptive. Are they are falling into disrepute? It’s time to embrace everything that...