Do you ever leave your equipment lying around because it doesn’t have a home?
Are you ever searching high and low for a tool?
Shadow boards might be your answer…
You may have heard of shadow boards before, but what are they and why are they useful?
Shadow boards give equipment such as handheld tools and cleaning utensils a dedicated ‘home’. Whenever the equipment is not being used, returning it to the shadow board (home) means it can be immediately found the next time it needs to be used. It also helps prevent the equipment from getting lost or damaged.
When the equipment has been taken from the board a detailed silhouette, or ‘shadow’, makes it simple to identify what item is missing. This increases accountability and tracking of equipment. By uniting effective workplace organisation and best practice, shadow boards deliver operational efficiencies which benefit everyone.
Providing a dedicated home for your equipment and tools has proved to:
Modulean shadow boards are a highly visual and useful tool (excuse the pun) to help keep track of your equipment. They are available in various colours (blue, green, red or yellow), with products on display, and optional accessories.
We believe shadow boards are a must-have in the workplace – they organise equipment and flag-up missing tools. The basic concept of a shadow board is a physical system to store smaller pieces of essential workplace equipment or to display physical information and provide a monitoring system. They are quick and easy to install and can be relocated if necessary.
Because the boards include ‘shadows’ to show where an item should be homed, your team can quickly tell at a glance if an item is either already in use or missing.
You can decide how you want to use this versatile storage system. For example, you could use shadow boards to hold your workplace cleaning equipment, alongside a running tally of inspections and tasks. This is a great way to carry out your daily/weekly cleaning routine, or your COVID-19 infection control activities. All of your hygiene equipment will be stored in one place, easily accessible and clear for everyone to see.
Alternatively, in a busy office environment or meeting room, you can use Modulean vis com boards to hold business related information such as targets, sales forecasts, open orders, workplace policies or any other intelligence that staff need to see daily.
Shadow boards can be used in many areas which require accessible tools
Alternatively, in a busy office environment or meeting room, you can use Modulean vis com boards to hold business related information such as targets, sales forecasts, open orders, workplace policies or any other intelligence that staff need to see daily.
Vis com boards can be used in office environments to display important information
In high-risk workplaces, a shadow board system could store emergency equipment such as first aid kits, eye wash stations, burns kits or a biohazard kits. All neatly mounted and highly visible.
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Look how neat, tidy and colourful these emergency shadow boards are!Â
