5S
Sort
Set in order
Shine
Standardise
Sustain
Safety
SORT
"Sorting" means to sort
through everything in
each work area. Keep
only what is necessary.
Materials, tools,
equipment and supplies
that are not frequently
used should be moved to
a separate, common
storage area. Items that
are not used should be
discarded.
5S
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A 10
30
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26
Numbers game
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34
Good luck!
Exercise
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N
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35
B
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40
20
6
48
33
Using a pencil or
pen strike out the
numbers 1 – 50
in order within
the next 30
seconds…
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Numbers game
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SORT – 6S
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E
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Numbers game
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Numbers game
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14
Good luck!
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40
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49
48
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Same rules as
before…
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SORT – 6S
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Exercise
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Sort
Set in order
Shine
Standardise
Sustain
Safety
SET IN ORDER
Organise, arrange and identify everything in the
work area for the most efficient and effective
retrieval and return to its proper place.
Commonly used tools should be readily available.
Storage areas, cabinets and shelves should be
properly labelled. Clean and paint floors to make
it easier to spot dirt, waste materials and
dropped parts and tools. Outline areas on the
floor to identify work areas, movement lanes,
storage areas, finished product areas, etc. Put
shadows on tool boards, making it easy to quickly
see where each tool belongs.
5S
8
44
35
11
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49
10
28
Exercise
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14
34
Good luck!
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47
Same rules as
before…
30
Numbers game
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SET IN ORDER –
6S
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9
48
42
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Numbers game
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40
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Sort
Set in order
Shine
Standardise
Sustain
Safety
SHINE
Once you have everything, from each individual
work area up to your entire facility, sorted
(cleaned up) and organised, you need to keep it
that way. This requires regular cleaning, or to go
along with our third S, "shining" things up.
Regular, usually daily, cleaning is needed or
everything will return to the way it was. This could
also be thought of as inspecting. While cleaning
it's easy to also inspect the machines, tools,
equipment and supplies you work with.
5S
Sort
Set in order
Shine
Standardise
Sustain
Safety
STANDARDISE
The good practices developed in steps 1 - 3 should
be standardised and made easy to accomplish.
Develop a work structure that will support the new
practices and make them habitual. Update and
modify the standards to make the process simpler
and easier.
One of the hardest steps is avoiding old work
habits. It's easy to slip back into what you've been
doing for years.
Use standards to help people work into new habits
that are a part of your Five S program.
5S
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Numbers game
STANDARDISE –
6S
Numbers game
Same rules as
before…
Good luck!
Exercise
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Sort
Set in order
Shine
Standardise
Sustain
Safety
SUSTAIN
Have a formal system for monitoring the
results of your Five S program.
Don't expect that you can clean up, get
things organised and labelled, and ask
people to clean and inspect their areas every
day — and then have everything continue to
happen without any follow-up.
Continue to educate people about
maintaining standards.
Monitoring systems
5S
Sort
Set in order
Shine
Standardise
Sustain
Safety
For example:
In addition to red tagging unwanted
items in the sort stage, you could
also yellow tag items which are
hazardous / unsafe / potential
pollutants and ensure that they are
properly housed and managed!
Do we need to say any more?
The last S should be incorporated
into ALL of the previous 5!
Safety the extra S
Can you think of any other ways we
can incorporate HSE into 5S?
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A 10
30
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Numbers game
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Benefits of 5S
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D
47
Good luck!
C
K
B
31
In the final game,
2 numbers are
missing… Which
2? Call out the
missing numbers
as soon as you
see them…
34
Numbers game
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Missing inventory
– 5S benefits
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Numbers game
Missing inventory
– 6S benefits
Numbers game
How much easier
is it now?
Good luck!
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Benefits of 5S
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