[ Different Skills ]

Writing standards, procedures, or policies is a specialised skill.  I was pleasantly surprised with some conversations I had recently, in which that was reiterated.  Different people, in different contexts, said the same thing:  a person can be really good at doing a task, but that doesn’t mean they are good at writing it down. 

Different skills are utilised to write a method statement, versus the skill to execute the activity.  And then it’s something else again to audit a procedure and judge whether it’s appropriate.  Reviewing an existing procedure is very different to writing the words in the first place.