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You are wrong, your ops manual is the law, your policies and directions are rules and regulation and you had better adhere to them.
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?? Are you for real? I believe you are just trying to make a point regarding the importance of adhering to your ops manual, but you have lost the plot if you regard it as being the law.
Rules, regulations, requirements, company policies. That is the order of it. Of course sticking to your ops manual will keep you out of trouble, but it does not by any means form the basis of other documentation.