Company policy may exceed regulatory requirements but may never:

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Company policy may exceed regulatory requirements but may never:

Regulations set the minimum standards that must be met; a company policy can be stricter, but it must not lower protections below those minimums. That’s why the best rule is that a policy may never be less restrictive than regulations—relaxing protections would create a gap in compliance and expose the organization to risk. It’s perfectly acceptable for a policy to exceed safety or other regulatory requirements, since adding safeguards strengthens compliance. Policies should align with regulations and not permit non-compliance or direct contradictions, but the universal constraint you must remember is not easing protections below what the regulations require.

Regulations set the minimum standards that must be met; a company policy can be stricter, but it must not lower protections below those minimums. That’s why the best rule is that a policy may never be less restrictive than regulations—relaxing protections would create a gap in compliance and expose the organization to risk. It’s perfectly acceptable for a policy to exceed safety or other regulatory requirements, since adding safeguards strengthens compliance. Policies should align with regulations and not permit non-compliance or direct contradictions, but the universal constraint you must remember is not easing protections below what the regulations require.

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