The phrase "a general set of guidelines" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a collection of broad recommendations or principles that are meant to guide behavior or decision-making.
Example: "The company has established a general set of guidelines to ensure that all employees understand the expectations for workplace conduct."
Alternatives: "a basic framework of rules" or "a broad outline of recommendations."
It outlined a general set of guidelines on green economy policies and a 10-year programmatic framework on sustainable consumption and production patterns.
Based upon these findings, we suggest a general set of guidelines to serve as a basis for designing bioinformatics algorithms aimed at identifying Hox regulatory elements using the wealth of recently sequenced genomes.
This document provides a general set of guidelines for diabetes care in correctional institutions.
This document provides a general set of guidelines for evaluating individuals with diabetes for employment, including how an assessment should be performed and what changes (accommodations) in the workplace may be needed for an individual with diabetes.
This article covers a general set of guidelines for plantar fascia release surgery.
While there is no set of rules about how long to leave a dog in a crate, here is a general set of guidelines: 9 to 10 weeks - 30 to 60 minutes.
What is missing from the discussion is the development of a more general set of guidelines that can apply to all physicians – neurologists, primary care physicians, and others – that will assist them in their decision-making with respect to prescribing CE.
To its credit, the U.S.G.B.C. is working hard on a next-generation set of guidelines.
The state Attorney General issued a set of guidelines yesterday allowing all law-enforcement officers to be tested at random for illegal drug use.
(Attorney General Eric Holder issued a set of guidelines to federal agencies a couple of months later that explained how the presumption of disclosure should be implemented).
Following the Church Committee's report, then-Attorney General Edward Levi implemented a set of guidelines designed to preclude FBI abuse regarding domestic investigations.
