I think the example John McGhie cites is the Longford Refinery disaster, where the use of 'point pages' was identified as a contributory factor.

When I was doing regulatory documentation, we used change bars to highlight new/deleted/updated material compared to the previous version, with an overview list at the start of the document. We did not try to use 'point pages', but submitted a complete new version every three months.

So long as you still have to distribute information on paper, this is an intractable problem … even moving to on-line doesn't entirely solve it, given people's reflex "I'll just print this off for reference" response. Perhaps a print-disabled .pdf, but that's solving the question from 'our' point of view rather than making life easier for the reader.