Late in the afternoon, a UPS van pulls up to your office and a number of large cardboard boxes are unloaded. In a matter of minutes, there are hundreds, or more likely, thousands of dollars of equipment stacked in your waiting room, shipped directly from the Never Fear Safety Co. The answer to all of your safety problems has arrived!
Or has it? It’s virtually impossible to tell unless we take a good look back into the past as well as toward the future. There are three important questions you should ask yourself first: How did these items get here in the first place? What will be their actual fate months or even years from now? Who’s ultimately responsible for all this stuff?