I had to deal with government refs several times in my job. We had an OSHA inspector on site once I had to "manage" and he couldn't understand their rules. He was on the phone with DC for about an hour. He was only there because a disaffected contract worker in another part of our operation called us in for a violation but the dude didn't have the names of the chemicals right. We ended up with some paper violations that I was tasked to fix, which meant reading the CFR. Holy cow what a mess.
Even if you mean to do the right thing, you can't. Parts of it ran afoul of state regulations, and other parts ran afoul of EEOC regulations dealing with pregnant women.
I can't treat a pregnant employee differently from a male. I did anyway when I had one, but was subtle about it.
I came up with corrections and we passed our followup so I guess it was good.
You really can't write decent regulations with input from industry, that's where the expertise lies.
