Elements and Performance Criteria
- Sort needed items from unneeded
- Identify all items in the work area.
- Sort items to achieve deliverables and value expected by downstream and final customers.
- Sort items required for regulatory or other required purposes.
- Place any non-essential item in an appropriate place other than the workplace.
- Regularly check that only essential items are in the work area.
- Set the workplace in order
- Shine the work area
- Standardise activities
- Sustain the 5S system
- Clean up after completion of job and before commencing next job or end of shift.
- Identify situations where compliance to standards is unlikely and take actions specified in procedures.
- Inspect work area regularly for compliance to specified standard.
- Recommend improvements to lift the level of compliance in the workplace.