The rules, policies and procedures are made and written by lawyers to protect the management from any oversight on their behalf when a mistake is made by a mere worker.
It's your fault you didn't adhere to the hundreds and hundreds of pages of manuals, policies, procedures, laws, codes of practice.
But of course it could be construed that they don't actually 'want' you to follow the procedures, but they know LAME's especially are more interested in doing the job instead of working out of they don't have to do the job. Because as we all know if we really wanted to, they'd be lucky for us to do 2 hours of productive work a day if we followed everything put in place by the powers that be. The place still works in spite of it all though, not because of it.