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Hello. I’m President Yasui, and I run a company primarily engaged in the inspection of high-pressure gas facilities.
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There’s something like an illness that I find myself suffering from from time to time.
Have you ever suddenly found yourself wondering, “What exactly is an inspection?” or “What is it that we actually do for a living?”
What is our job?
When I say I’m thinking about things like that, I start to sound like someone who’s about to quit their job and change careers right away, haha.
This is something I think about all the time.
Inspection itself is nothing but a cost for the customer.
Even with a vehicle inspection, the customer would face less financial burden if there were no such thing.
But because such systems exist, we have no choice but to undergo them.
The same goes for safety inspections. If a business wants to continue operating, it needs to pass these inspections, so the inspection has to be carried out.
There are standards for inspections, and we check whether the equipment meets those standards.
Sometimes, you may have equipment that is there, but simply doesn’t work.
Some people find a problem and say,
“It’s a fail.”
And that’s where they stop.
It’s the result, so they simply communicate it and finish the job.
But there are people who are a little different, aren’t there?
Even when they find a problem, they fix it right there on the spot.
It’s hard to put this into words, but when I was thinking about how to explain it in a way that would be easy to understand, one phrase came to mind:
“Restoring things to their proper state.”
I was taught that when you go out to perform an inspection, there is no such thing as,
“There was nothing wrong.”
In other words, there must be something.
Unless the equipment is brand new, there will probably be something somewhere.
Rust, for example.
Maybe there’s a leak, or a light bulb has burned out.
You find things that are not in their proper state, and restore them to the state they are supposed to be in.
Maybe that’s what an inspection really is.
Of course, we are checking whether the equipment meets the applicable standards.
But simply doing that part of the inspection doesn’t necessarily mean the business will succeed.
The same applies when developing younger employees or building our company culture and internal environment.
If you don’t communicate your way of thinking, there is no way for it to be understood by the other person.
Teaching manuals and procedures is an absolute necessity.
But it is also important to put vague ideas into words and communicate them clearly.
If we are not clear about what kind of company we are trying to become, simply carrying out tasks may not be enough to survive going forward.
What is it that you are trying to achieve?
Why not take some time to think about it?
Thank you very much for reading this far!
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