I don’t suppose that many of you would expect the phrase “moral imperative” to appear in a serious data center related discussion but, sometimes, technological capability must be tempered by human considerations. Now don’t get me wrong, we are decades away from the days in which the disposability (literally) of human capital was viewed as a calculable expense on the part of many firms, but even today, we must sometimes step back and ask ourselves if our processes and procedures remain in synch with our ability to protect our own employees. In terms of data centers, architectural changes and the increasing concerns of downtime prevention and speed of implementation increasingly call for us to evaluate if we are successfully providing for the physical protection of our employees through our adherence to published standards.