5S

Industrial Housekeeping

Engr. Ed Dela Cruz

Step 1
•  Look around your workplace and dispose all
unnecessary items
Step 2
•  Set aside items with Disposal Notice decide if
they are necessary or not
Step 1
•  Eliminate unnecessary items from your workplace
•  Think of what things should remain in the workplace,
taking into account the flow of work, from the point of
view of safe and efficient operation
Step 2
•  Decide with your colleagues where to put things. The
principle is to put most frequently needed items close to the
user.
Step 3
•  Make a list of things with their location and put it on
locker/cabinets and inform everyone in the workplace.
Step 4
•  Indicate the places where fire extinguishers are located,
passages of forklifts/carts, and wherever necessary,
warnings signs for safety precautions, etc
The following are suggested for Seiso (Sweep) operation:
•  Do not wait until things get dirty. Clean your workplace,
including machines and equipment tools and furnitures,
regularly so that they do not have a chance to get dirty

•  Put aside 3 minutes everyday for Seiso (Sweep)

•  Maintain a workplace that is free from germs and stains.
Make a schedule for thorough cleaning of your workplace.

•  Seiketsu is significant for works with food products,

pharmaceutical products, electronic components, etc.
•  Make every one practice 4S’s spontaneously and willingly
as a habit or a way of life

•  Practice 4S’s regularly until such time when everyone

becomes fond of 5S
•  In a third rate workplace people leave trash, and no
one stops to pick it up.

•  In a second rate workplace people leave trash, but

others pick it up.

•  In a first rate workplace no one leaves trash, but

people would pick it up if they saw it.