Standards That Support
Workplace Visuality
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD
For the past several issues, we have taken a walk through the forest called standards, in an attempt to see the trees...to see what is the same and what is different--and for those things that are different, to understand why. By now, you recognize that the term "standards" and "standardizing" are flying fast and low in many disguises. It is not easy to keep them straight and ordered. Sometimes they can get so entangled that there seems to be nothing but forest, no differences at all.
Today, I bravely add one more "standard" to the mix: standards that support workplace visuality. Don't mix these up with a "visual standard" (defined in Issue 42 of The Visual Thinker) which simply refers to making one of your existing work specifications or SOPs visual.
Standards that support the visual workplace are specifications or requirements that make the visual part of our work environment work even better. Here are six examples of many standards about the readability of addresses.
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