Why can't we just continue to store it the way we always have. There has never been an incident, yet rules were created and people just can't wait to comply, no matter how stupid the rule is.
Paper-pushers and lawmakers need to justify their salaries, and subjects feel a need to placate the authorities in a mistaken belief that that will ensure nothing bad ever happens to them.
The following is a totally off-topic digression, don't read if you don't care...
In my office, when you exit the elevator, there's a long hall anyone can access, and two keycarded doors that lead to the office spaces. We used to keep those doors open during office hours so people could move around freely. Management has now decided this wasn't safe; they reinforced those doors and demand they be closed at all times, which means the people in the vicinity are now forced to hear them open and slam shut all day.
We got burglarized a total of
once in some thirty years, not during office hours but when no one was around, and the burglars busted through the
walls 'cause they offered less resistance than the doors. Because of this, we now need to
close the doors during office hours. Make sense?
What's more, there are a couple of offices whose doors lead to the common hall, not the "secure" office area. At taxpayers' expense, of course, they now intend to wall in those doors are install them on the "safe" side. When I asked why they felt the need to do this, I was told, I sh¡t you not, "because if terrorists or criminals were to barge in out of the elevators, the people in those offices would be at risk". Everyone knows terrorists often prey on translation offices...
A total of two people in the office have complained about the futility and wastefulness of these rules. Everyone else is all too happy to comply. The power of the people lies in their number. If everyone in my office stood united and said "We won't put up with this, the doors are staying open", there's nothing management could do. As it stands, with two people #####in' about it, they have the power to threaten us with sanctions and penalties.
People too often forget we are the ones who hold the power in a democracy.