What does "respecting the spirit of the rules" mean?

Some of the things osha does you carry on a mission include developing job safety and health standards and enforcing them through work site inspections maintaining reporting and record keeping system to keep track of job related injuries and illnesses in providing blank programs to increase knowledge about occupational safety and health

[120 total points] (public health) in one of the largest human experiments ever conducted, in 1954 a randomized controlled trial was run to see whether a vaccine developed by a doctor named jonas salk was effective in preventing paralytic polio. a total of 401,974 children (ages 6–9), chosen to be representative of those who might be susceptible to the disease, were randomized to two groups: 200,745 children (the control group c) were injected with a harmless saline solution (a placebo) and the other 201,229 children (the treatment group t) were injected with salk’s vaccine.what was the point of giving saline solution to the children who didn’t get the vaccine? explain briefly.

There is only one copy machine at your office. you have to make 1000 copies of an expense report. after you begin copying, two other employees show up in the copy room. each has to make only 10 copies each. what is the proper etiquette in this situation?