We quote from Manzoni and Don Abbondio to remind that Italian is still our language and that the use of abbreviations, while simplifying the scripture, very often creates confusion or misunderstandings.
In fact if we may mention the CEI, many will read Italian Episcopal Conference, others will read electro technical Italian committee, so abbreviations can often be treacherous.
When they are clear they are a language for experts and since many wish to be experts, we look at the proliferation of acronyms, which are taken from English and then are used in Italy, forcing the translation and then the interpretation.
Let us return to SIL, which is the level of integrity of the system. It is not so much dark.
Looking at rules and directives we understand that it is absolutely useful to know the level of safety of a system and its level of integrity and sometimes it is necessary to evaluate the safety of what we use. Then why do we not try to simplify and make clear the languages?
The answer is simple. Technicians, also the good ones, are concerned with resolving the problems, to make sure machines and security systems, but they do not worry if they are not understood and they do not care in speaking a common language. This way each person can become important in its own back yard, almost as in politics.
Discovering after many research and studies that what in service would refer to RESS (essential safety requirements and health) corresponds, also if not directly, to SIL means discovering that the problem of security is common to all the productive and social sectors, and so it would be more useful and convenient for us to have a single language!
Clearly for the technical is not worth the same logic because they divide up the knowledge and have them evolve in watertight compartments. In addition of being a source of prestige this is also a source of profit, but the person who pays is always the consumer!
And the consumer pays in terms of money and pays also in terms of security, because if they make complicated what is really simple, it means that in the end nothing is applied and we found situations in which the RESS are unknown to the mechanics and the SIL is unknown to electronic.
At this point, a compliment to the engineers and especially to those who have the task of creating and disseminating the safety rules, it is absolutely essential!
This is a quotation from a colonel in force in 1976: -The army management is made in order to make it difficult the easy through the unnecessary-. And we add: -not only there-.
