Root Your 5S Audit in 5S Principles
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD
In last week's issue of The Visual Thinker, I continued our discussion of the traditional 5S audit, shared a set of reservations, and offered some remedies--"The Five Tweaks," as I called them. Remedies are important because most of you have a vested interest in continuing regular audits but want them to be successful and more valued. Last week's tweaks should help.
Do you want to go still further so your audit
begins to assess outcomes that are more worthy of praise and therefore of the steady, sustained attention of your associates? If so, pursue Tweak 1/Audit for Principles: Audit for the extent to which 5S principles are in place, not whether 5S tasks are done. Do that and your monthly audit will begin to become an improvement driver, instead of a mere compliance tool. Here's an example.
S2: Shine.
In the logic of a traditional 5S audit, S2/Shine supports as an outcome a clean work area...and everything in it. And we all know for sure...
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Here's one way to ensure that a lid does not stray too far from its bucket--a length of sturdy tape. Did you expect to see an exact lid/chemical bucket example? I don't have one. But, because I see the principal of motion-prevention in the example I do have, I can now look for ways to transfer the thinking to
risk-prevention/lids/buckets.
Just give me a moment...I'm thinking!
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