It must be a per barn thing. At my barn we have Shrink wrap, shovels brooms, tape, and trash cans between every other door. we also have dock hooks at every door and on every forklift and every door has a safe stack bar at it. That is one of the items the dockworks must do every day is check the supplies on the dock.
Take a little pride in where you work.
It sound like the docks are like truck drivers. You have the ones that have all kinds of ::
:: piled on the dash and other spend a little of there own time to keep it clean.