SM reminds me of an ex senior figure in Shell Aircraft Services who served in (to my knowledge) Africa and Aberdeen who had an innate ability to wind up everyone he came into contact with, was a master pedant and who left the organisation a number of years ago to the relief of many and probably not at his planned exit point.
In the Oil & Gas food chain the operator is king. In the UK both Shell and BP have long histories of dictatorial practices of safety management systems to subcontractors often at the expense of common sense while sadly suffering the consequences of failures in those systems within their own organisations.
One thing this forum is good at is attracting these characters with oblique viewpoints who usually manage a fairly decent sustained run before finally being found out.
