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preparing a laundry schedule for your ship, you
will, of course, modify the schedule according to
your circumstances. A ship’s laundry schedule
should be flexible and yet should be able to ac-
commodate shipboard conditions like general
quarters, all hands working parties, and other
major evolutions.
In association with your laundry schedule, you
should maintain certain records and logs. The
records you maintain should be consistent with
your spaces, equipment, and available personnel.
Bulk work and press deck logs should be main-
tained daily, and signatures should be required
for pickups of completed work. The information
in these logs should provide you with a valuable
resource in preparing an effective laundry
schedule. Consult your NAVSUP P-487 for
additional operational requirements associated
with the successful management of a ship’s
laundry.
BARBERSHOP SCHEDULE AND
APPOINTMENTS
The purpose of scheduling appointments in the
barbershop is to provide better service for your
patrons who have neither the time nor the inclina-
tion to wait in line a long time for a haircut.
All personnel aboard ship should receive hair-
cuts every 2 weeks. This means your appointment
schedule should be designed to allow your barber-
shop to accomplish all the barbering work within
this period.
In scheduling haircuts, you should take the
following factors into consideration:
1. The number of personnel aboard
2. The number and competency of barbers
3. The daily workload of each barber
4. Space available for patrons to wait
(usually no more than two patrons should
be waiting for one barber)
A barber can usually give a satisfactory hair-
cut in 20 minutes. Therefore, if kept busy all the
time during an 8-hour period, the barber can give
up to 24 haircuts per day. The barber needs time
for personal hygiene, for sterilizing barbering
instruments, and for assisting in general shop
sanitation—to say nothing of rest periods and the
noon meal.
The two systems recommended for schedul-
ing appointments for the barbershop are the
appointment system and the division schedule.
Appointment System
In the appointment system, appointment
schedule sheets are marked off for a definite
number of haircuts for each barber during the
day. Barbers should maintain their own sheets and
should post them either 1 day ahead of the time
the haircut is to be given or early in the morning
on the day the patrons apply for haircuts. There
should be a space for the signature of each patron
opposite the appointment time the patron has
selected.
The appointment system works fairly well,
although, on occasions, patrons fail to report for
their appointments and can throw your schedule
off. Occasionally, an unclaimed period can be
claimed by another patron. If you experience too
much difficulty with broken appointments, you
can report the offenders to the supply officer, who
can report their names to the cognizant division
officer.
Patrons who make what they think are
proper appointments and then find no barber to
serve them are understandably upset. Make
certain the procedures you follow are well known
by the patrons and are followed explicitly by all
of your barbers.
Division Schedule
The division schedule provides a definite
number of hours during which personnel in a
particular division may receive service in the ship’s
barbershop. The division petty officer controls the
scheduling of appointments and sends a certain
number of patrons from the division to the
barbershop at a time. This method of scheduling
prevents broken appointments, but it is generally
not preferred over the appointment system.
As the barbershop supervisor, you should save
all appointment sheets for at least 2 weeks just
in case someone should complain about not
being able to get a haircut because all the appoint-
ments were taken. This will also protect the barber
in the case of personnel failing inspections and
then claiming that they really did receive haircuts
in the ship’s barbershop when they really did not.
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
In your duties as a supervisor, you will
discover that personnel management will be
mainly concerned with the assignment of your
people on the basis of ability and interest to
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