On a walk-through of Cintas Corp.’s Richmond-area plant in Chester, VA, #143, we come across an object associated with traffic control that exemplifies this company’s healthy obsession with safety.
 
It’s a full-size stoplight hung on the wall in the middle of the plant. “It’s right above the time clock right in the center aisle so everybody sees it when they come into the plant,” says Doug Caldwell, deep clean market manager for the Chester plant. General Manager Howard Baron adds that this particular idea came from an hourly employee, or “partner” in Cintas parlance. “This particular idea ...