A theatre stored chairs in two rooms while preparing for a community festival. Chairs in the first room had not yet been inspected. Chairs in the second had been inspected, but this did not mean that all were ready for use. Each chair in that room carried either a green label, meaning no repair was needed, or an orange label, meaning a repair was still required. The labels stayed attached when chairs were moved. A delivery assistant proposed counting every chair in the second room as available. The manager rejected the proposal because room location showed that inspection had occurred, whereas label colour showed its result. An orange-labelled chair could be released only after a repair and a new inspection. Moving it into the first room would not cancel the recorded defect. To avoid mistakes, the team kept a list with separate columns for location, inspection result, and release status. This allowed them to distinguish work that had not begun from work that had revealed an unresolved problem.