Agreed
LASORS is not an authoritative source of information - it is guidance. There are a number of ways in which it elaborates on things and offers advice and it fails to differentiate between those things that are legal requirements and those that are advice. You can't get prosecuted for failing to follow LASORS. What you get prosecuted for is a breach of the legislation.
This discussion illustrates how people read what is in LASORS and on the OHJ poster and think it's a legal requirement and that everyone is required to comply. This can have a detrimental effect on safety because you assume that people are going to do one thing and then they (quite legally) do something else.
Mike