IMPROVING OUR PLANT
Head Back to School Stress-Free
Putting Our Extra Time to Good Use
TURN YOUR ENTRYWAY INTO A COMMAND CENTER
“Has anyone seen my backpack?” “Dad, did you sign my permission slip?” “Mom, I can’t find my shoes!”
This is the household anthem heard on school mornings across
the United States — a chaotic rush of tracking down shoes, throwing together lunches, and racing to the bus stop. What if there were a stress-free way to make sure everyone in your family had everything they needed to walk out the door each morning? Believe it or not, it’s possible! And it all starts with turning your home’s entryway into an organized command center. GET HOOKED ON COAT RACKS. Building an entryway command center starts with coat racks. You should have enough hooks for every member of your family to hang their jackets, backpacks, and purses. It’s also good to have some extra hooks just in case. Get your family in the habit of hanging their belongings in the entryway rather than trailing them through the house. CREATE A CLEVER SHOE SOLUTION. Keeping your shoes by the door ensures that on busy mornings, the left shoe isn’t in the bedroom while the right shoe somehow ended up in the playroom. However, shoes can quickly pile up into a mess of their own. If there’s space in your entryway, cubbies or labeled storage bins are a great solution to make sure each kid has a designated spot for their shoes. If you don’t have storage space by the door, a wall-mounted coat rack is a great workaround. Install the rack close to the floor and have your kids hang their shoes on the hooks when they come in. TO YOUR BATTLE STATIONS, EVERYONE! Make sure each member of your family has a designated spot to put their belongings in the command center, including you. Sure, you might not have homework to keep track of, but what about your keys? Your parent battle station can include a bowl for keys, a tray for new mail, and a calendar to help you monitor your weekly schedule at a glance. Organizing your entryway won’t magically make school mornings stress-free unless you consistently utilize the system. Kids will need to build the habits of leaving their shoes by the door and returning their backpacks to the hooks after they do their homework. So stick to the plan, be patient, and take it one day at a time.
Although the pandemic caused a bit of a slowdown in our plant, it didn’t mean our team slowed down. We looked toward the future, knowing things will pick up again, so we asked ourselves: With this extra time on our hands, how can we improve things so that we can come back better than before? Our solution was to tackle a number of projects we’d had our eye on for quite some time but were unable to get to because we were so busy. The biggest and one of the most gratifying projects we tackled was redoing our entire plant's floor, which was in bad shape. The cement floor was covered in layers of paint, each of which had started to come off over the years. We could see the different colors and bare cement across the floor. Plus, it was common knowledge that if anyone dropped something on the floor, it would have to be recleaned — it was that dirty (even though it was mopped all the time). To complete this project, everyone on our team contributed. We felt unified as our entire in-house team worked together as part of this change. While most of our maintenance team did a lot of the work, our other departments did some heavy lifting and moving things around or were just there to help with whatever needed to be done. No matter how they helped, our employees were a huge part of making this happen for our plant, making it better than ever. Each of our team members have taken a lot of pride in the fact that they helped make this happen. Now, we have a beautiful, finished, brand-new floor that everyone is so proud to keep clean. We are so excited we took this step to ensure our plant is in tiptop shape for our customers. We are enthusiastic for the future and ready to take on whatever may come.
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