| Workplace communication is not only for the office. | | | | One of the biggest scary things that can happen at |
| Consider if you will and oil change facility. The | | | | an oil change facility is that the oil is put back into the |
| workers are changing the oil in a car as a team. The | | | | car but the plug is never returned and the car drives |
| workers are working at different levels, one, is | | | | leaving a trail of oil until there is no oil in the car and |
| working underground and removing the oil through | | | | then the engine seizes halfway down the road or |
| the oil plug. Another is working above putting in the | | | | home for the customer. This is one example of the |
| oil. | | | | importance of workplace communication in the |
| If the worker on the bottom of a car fails to put the | | | | automotive service sector. |
| plug back and the oil being put in the top of the | | | | And you can see that it is very important and it has |
| engine then it will all leak back out the bottom of the | | | | nothing to do with office workplace communication. |
| car and the car might drive away with no oil at all? | | | | You should look at all aspects of your business and |
| This is one reason why most oil change facilities train | | | | find out where you can improve workplace |
| their employees to call out each event as it occurs | | | | communication and educate your employees so that |
| so that the other employees will hear them. This | | | | they can work more efficiently and safer. Work place |
| verbal communication system prevents oil plugs from | | | | communication is not just for the office. Please |
| not getting back into the car also. | | | | consider this in 2006. |