PS

"Please"

No comma there.

It's a website text of a certification body - thus I suspect the readers should know...:-O???

(Thanks for the comma information by the way :-)!!!)

@penguin :Bezüglich comma - ich dachte immer, wenn der Satz zu lang und unübersichtlich wird, kann man auch im Englischen einen Beistrich machen...

P.S: Nicht nur die Deutschen - auch die Österreicher... :-D

I agree with HM with this. It's bad form to just assume that your readers (or listeners, for that matter) will automatically understand what many abbreviations stand for. If, however, your audience would clearly understand that "RM" stands for "risk management," there's no big issue with just saying the letters. (Also, keep in mind that English tends not to use such abbreviations as often as German does in many cases–but they aren't unknown.)

It just about any situation, whether in writing or in speech, it would also be fair to use the full term ("a risk management system") the first time, followed by something along the lines of "also called an 'RM system'" or "which I'll call an 'RM system'." From then on, you could comfortably use the phrase "an RM system."

Not without following typical grammar constructions and rules, and in this case, it doesn't work that way.

One of the reasons it would "assist the reader" (which, IMO, is a totally arbitrary standard), is that "so" actually connects two independent clauses (containing at least a subject and a verb).

Your, explanation of how, it might be, done is not arbitrary. The statement, "so that, it assists" the reader, is. Anyone, could, decide what may or may not assist a reader and thus place commas wherever they feel, would do so, even if that would actually, assist very few people at most. (I thought that the reader might need a bit of assistance with my entry, so I added some commas where I thought that they might be helpful.) ;-)

One of the issues is that this isn't chiefly a forum for NESs to learn how to improve their English skills. An NGS writing in English could very likely think that a comma before "if" or "that" would "assist" the reader because that is what they are accustomed to seeing in German.