{"id":17407,"date":"2019-05-08T09:41:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=17407"},"modified":"2019-05-08T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:47:06","slug":"read-tc-176s-ballot-on-changing-the-definition-or-risk-in-annex-sl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/read-tc-176s-ballot-on-changing-the-definition-or-risk-in-annex-sl\/","title":{"rendered":"Read TC 176&#8217;s Ballot on Changing the Definition or &#8220;Risk&#8221; in Annex SL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A handy source just provided me the official ballot from TC 176 on the changes to the definition of &#8220;risk&#8221; for what was previously called Annex SL (now just Annex L.) You may want to read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/annex-sl-being-renamed-and-why-that-proves-its-bad-for-standards\/\">yesterday&#8217;s article<\/a> first, on why this whole thing is so horribly bad for standards in general, and standards users in particular.<\/p>\n<p>The ballot can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/downloads\/annexslvoteballot.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong> <\/a>(PDF file, direct download). Some random takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TC 176 continues to dig into the trenches of a war against common sense, by insisting that &#8220;risk is positive, man!&#8221; and that risk and opportunity are <em>not<\/em> opposites. This is just mind-boggling at this point, that Nigel Croft and his gang can insist on denying <em><strong>every language&#8217;s dictionary ever<\/strong><\/em> in order to &#8220;soften&#8221; risk so it sells more standards. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orwellian\">Doubleplusgood<\/a>! At this point, the task force has become the living embodiment of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gunshowcomic.com\/648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;This is Fine&#8221; comic strip meme<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The ballot proves that the entire &#8220;vote&#8221; is a charade. The voting options are limited to adopting the ISO 31000 definition of risk, per the &#8220;<em>option preferred by TMB, in order to promote greater consistency among ISO standards&#8221;<\/em> or &#8220;<em>approaching ISO\/TMB to seek their approval to<\/em>&#8221; do something else. This means <em><strong>beg<\/strong><\/em>. And that means <em><strong>the vote is entirely symbolic and non-binding<\/strong><\/em>, unless it comes out in favor of TMB&#8217;s predetermined position. So you can vote to agree with your rulers, or fuck off. Hint: that&#8217;s not voting, except in Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li>The ballot also reveals that the Task Force team had the balls to suggest they go back and tell ISO 31000&#8217;s authors to change <em><strong>their<\/strong> <\/em>definition! Sweet mother of mangoes, that&#8217;s gutsy. Croft also admits they didn&#8217;t include this as a possible vote option because doing so was akin to parting the Red Sea with a paperclip. So that option was denied the recipients outright. Would have been funny to watch, though. It does show how the ballot was crafted, though, to ensure a predetermined outcome.<\/li>\n<li>The option to &#8220;do nothing&#8221; and remove the ISO 9001 definition entirely is just yielding to the TMB, too, since the Annex L definition would thus take precedence by default. Again: achieving a predetermined outcome.<\/li>\n<li>This entire kabuki theater \/ fake vote \/ &#8220;cover our asses&#8221; exercise is supposed to include reaching out to the <b><i>entire world&#8217;s stakeholders<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i><strong><em>in only one month.<\/em><\/strong> The document was released on May 2nd, but demands a response by June 3rd.<\/li>\n<li>Croft totally cribbed the Oxebridge website by quoting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/dis-of-iso-9001introduces-a-fifth-definition-of-risk\/\">my research<\/a> which uncovered &#8220;<em>40+ different definitions of risk<\/em>\u201d in use in ISO standards, but didn&#8217;t give me credit. Maybe they&#8217;ll send me a bottle of Riesling or, at least, a Brazilian empanada? Show a brother some love, man.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Croft&#8217;s email addy is in the document, if you want to let him know what you feel about this mess.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxebridge obtained the official ballot for TC 176 members to vote on changes to the definition of &#8220;risk&#8221; in Annex SL, which will impact on ISO 9001, and it reveals the entire process is rigged.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1029,270,1027,43,186,14,184,147,148,200],"class_list":["post-17407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-annex-l","tag-annex-sl","tag-iec","tag-iso","tag-iso-31000","tag-iso-9001","tag-nigel-croft","tag-risk","tag-risk-management","tag-tmb","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17411,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17407\/revisions\/17411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}