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Anyone still out there?

So, you may have noticed that LockBytes took a bit of an unexpected break. (If you didn’t notice, don’t hurt my feelings and just pretend you did.) We’re doing big things with our fancy computer stuff over here and the website took a hit for a little while and, ironically, I was locked out of the blog.

But rest assured, I’m back and all is well with the world.

Today I’m talking about something that’s very important to LockNet and something the company works to exemplify in everyday life. The LockNet Guiding Principles are a set of guidelines we use as a standard for all employees and it really helps ground us.

Because there are six Guiding Principles, I thought this could be a fun series for the blog. Not only that, I’ve been able to steal some time from Chad Miller, LockNet CEO, to film some videos to get an inside look at what these points mean to him.

LockNet Guiding Principles

The first guiding principle on our list is:

Safety comes first.

It’s such a simple sentence, but when you work in an industry like ours it carries so much weight! We have a warehouse where employees work heavy machinery, there are forklifts driven around, and keys are cut. All of those things have the potential to injure someone.

This is exactly why this is the first principle in the list. When Chad and his father, Benson Miller, put the Guiding Principles together, they put them together in a way where their place on the list matters. So, above everything else we do, safety has to come first.

Chad gives a really great example of this in the short video below. We discuss where the Guiding Principles come from and why they’re so important. Take a peek at the first video in our Guiding Principles mini-series below.

Like what you see? Let me know in the comments! Does your company have something similar to our Guiding Principles? I’d love to hear all about it!