Evidence of Forethought.

Things don’t go wrong because you didn’t have policies and train people in their application.

Lots of organisations have gaps in policies, no training, and nothing goes wrong.

Polices are evidence that an organisation has at least recognised the subject of the policy is relevant, and applied its mind to the decision making required in the context of the organisation to address the subject.

Hence why buying policies ‘off the shelf’ is not such a good idea.