> Instead of training the personnel and putting faith in them, they are treated like children.

Exactly this, so much time and effort gets expended on paranoid bureaucracy.

Ideally the decisions on these things should be taken by those with a good amount of practical experience, who've been held accountable in the past, know the kinds risks low-skill employees bring and the pressures vested interests bring to the table. The ivory tower types don't know any of that.