Standard Requirement
Dogs are admitted as a normal part of the workplace, not a personal favour; decisions follow published criteria that are reasonable and applied consistently.
RDWS-01 A2 · Pass/fail. Fail this requirement and the outcome is Not Certified.
Dogs are admitted as a normal part of the workplace, not as a personal favour. Any decision on a particular dog, whether approval, conditions or refusal, is made against published criteria and applied consistently to comparable cases.
The criteria must themselves be reasonable and relevant to a dog's actual behaviour and suitability for the workplace. Criteria framed so as to exclude ordinary household dogs, however evenly they are applied, do not meet this requirement.
Assessing an individual dog on its behaviour is allowed; admission that turns on management discretion, seniority or special pleading is not.
Roch Interpretation
Same facts, same answer, whoever signs it off. And the criteria themselves have to be fair, not impossible hurdles dressed up as objective rules.
Examples
Compliant
Every dog is assessed against the same reasonable, written behaviour standard, regardless of whose dog it is.
Not compliant
The founder's dog is waved in while everyone else's request stalls in a discretionary queue.