[Meph504]

If you have ever worked in an industrial environment, phone bans are a safety issue more than a productivity issue, and are pretty much standard behavior. This article is just another hit job on Amazon. But I can tell you first hand, that Walmart, UPS, Every member of the U.S. steel industry association ban cellphones in production environments.

The warehouse should have a disaster alarm, and they should have a plan in place for what to do in situations like that, but the reality is even with such a system, tornadoes rarely give enough to react at scale.