Re:Security and Control - A Regulation Change is Needed

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

> Policy changes and even more so regulatory change, takes a lot of support
> and effort from us to get accepted.  Having worked on this policy change, I
> can say it is not easy to get assistance to put a program together.  Surely
> people will offer complaints especially after something is completed, but
> there were few around to assist in writing a proposal or promoting the
> change.  A rule change is the right thing to do to address the issues.
> However, do we, as a community, have the drive and desire to actually do it?

It used to be that the regulators promulgated regulations, policy and 
recommendations without input from the "user community". This changed 
around the time the 10CFR20 revision was in process, late 80's. It has been a 
good process, whereby the professional community is able to provide some 
insight on how the regulatory changes will affect the workplace, what questions 
remain, and where additional details are needed. This "new" process facilitates 
the promulgation of regulatory documents with a sense of "reality". Not always, 
but much better than the previous years where any communication between 
licensees and the regulators was assumed to be collusion between the two 
groups..

We're moving in the right direction.

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