Even modern-day ships roll and pitch in stormy seas. When Sailors or ship’s personnel fail to secure or stow items the items tend to move. When ship’s movements become more violent from the storm or seas, items move about more violently when misplaced or unsecure.
I agree regarding the difference between a ship and your business (unless of course your business is happens on the water,) or is there a difference? Where are your employees stashing or storing goods? What other items are stored in those same areas? Perhaps you should walk around with a critical eye toward just how Ship Shape you find your organization.
Three things you need to check during a walk-about through your facilities.
- Cleaning/Chemical Storage. You should specifically target combustible materials, but look for material compatibility. You should read labels for possible conflicts and interactions between chemicals.
- Paper/boxes/wood products. Personnel storing boxes, copy paper or archives, and wood products find places that appear out of the way and safe, but check for equipment airflow nearby. Overheating equipment (and yes computers) can fail prematurely or worse create fire hazards.
- Electrical cabling. Your equipment and outlets can create circuit overload from added computers and appliances while your organization grows. A visit from your electrician or power company might safe you downtime from electrical failures and reducing fire hazards from overloading.
Various organizations remind us to check our home smoke detectors periodically (normally when we change time from Daylight Savings to Standard times.) You really need to check those smoke detectors in your facilities as well, along with fire sprinklers, emergency lighting, and egress pathways.
You really are responsible for your organization Ship Shape.
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