If your facility hosts fitness, sports and other recreational activities, you likely have a lot of equipment. And where storage space is at a premium, it can be difficult to keep it all organized. Locker rooms, with their towels and toiletries, can present a similar problem. Storage carts can help keep things neat and organized.
Q. Our locker rooms include a towel supply, but visitors often leave their towels behind, making the space messy. How can we better organize our towel supply to prevent the mess?
A. Ask your guests to help keep things clean by returning their used towels to a central location. A mobile collection cart can serve as a towel station, providing a central location for clean towels, as well as a dropoff for dirty ones. Be sure to include signage for clarity.
Be sure to select a cart large enough to handle your supplies. Wheels will make laundering your towels simple—staff members can just roll the towels away at the end of the day, and return fresh, clean towels to their designated location before your facility opens again.
Q. Our storage areas seem so full of equipment, we sometimes struggle to find what we need for sports and fitness programs. How can we make it easier to locate and put away equipment that’s used regularly?
A. Whether you’re storing foam rollers and yoga mats or basketballs, volleyballs and pickleball equipment, each item should have a designated location in your storage area. Wheeled storage carts that can be rolled out when needed, then returned to your storage area when the program has ended will make it easy to keep equipment areas organized, making it easier for your staff to find the right items.
Since carts can be found in a wide variety of colors, with the ability to add logos, you can take your organization further by color-coding your carts. For example, red carts might store fitness-related items, while blue carts hold basketballs and yellow carts hold volleyballs.
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