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What is 5 S (5C/CANDO) Training?
5S training is a set of
techniques providing a standard approach to housekeeping within the workplace.
It is often described as more than just simple housekeeping however, and the
elements listed below certainly have broader implications.
The cornerstone of 5S is that
an untidy, cluttered work area is not productive. Along with the physical
implications of cluttered and untidy work areas, it is generally accepted that
employees are fair happier in a clean and tidy environment and therefore be
more inclined to work harder with due care and attention.
Listed below are the 5
premises that adhere to 5 S training:
SORT
The first area concerns itself with identifying the work area and conducting a
critical assessment to ensure that employees are sorting their area for best
practise.
SET
The “setting” process is
essentially a continuation of the Sort phase in as much as once an area has been identified as needing
attention, various items will be removed, discarded or held in an alternative
location to create space.
SHINE
The principle for the Shine
section is that employees are happier and more productive in a cleaner
environment. Of course, if everything is sorted and set in a proper place, then
it will be immediately ready to use. The task of establishing a clean working
environment is a continuous and ongoing task.
STANDARDISATION
This section concerns itself
with ensuring that all the implemented processes become standard practice
within the workplace. The danger in any new process is that when focus moves,
things revert back to the way that they were. This section therefore ensures
that the new processes become standard procedure by setting a schedule by which
all elements are revisited on a regular basis.
SUSTAIN
The final stage of the
process shows a fundamental difference between Standardisation and Sustain.
Standardisation is the introduction of a formal process to ensure that the new
processes are maintained. Sustain however concerns itself with changing
people’s approaches to win “hearts and minds” on the new processes. Therefore
this is changing the employee’s culture within the workplace to ensure that the
new processes are changed with the employee themselves wanting to take
responsibility for the actions themselves. This can be achieved by looking at
the following key points:
Communication: Ensure that
the employee understands the aims and goals of the process and why they are
being implemented. This would be the ideal opportunity to give employees
themselves the chance to voice their own ideas.
Education: Ensuring that the employees understand the concepts and the
individual techniques.
Rewards & Recognition:
Rewarding individuals for good practice.
Time: Ensuring that people
have the time to implement the systems.
Structure: A clear and
defined structure of responsibility for the implemented systems, including what
is to be done by whom, when, why, and ensuring that schedules are updated and
clearly visible.
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