Cement Energy & Environment

48 5S STEPS DESCRIPTION: 1S. (SEIRI) - RE-ORGANISING: Organisation or re-organisation is to sort out unnecessary items in the work place and apply stratification management to discard them e.g. Things not belonging to that area to be removed from there. If repairing is required, separate them and get them repaired. If it has to be discarded, decide first whether it has some scrap value, then sell them at the right time. If the item is all right but not useful to you, and you can’t sell them, but can be utilized by someone else, who needs it send it to them. Items which need to be discarded, must be discarded in such a way that what is discarded will not harm society, environment and even animals. Red tag area is developed for decision-making on whether to keep, relocate or discard unnecessary items in the workplace. 2S. (SEITON) - NEATNESS: Put the things in a proper neat way. Everything should have a place and everything should be in its place. Decide the place, mark the place, put label on items. Arrange the items in such a way so that they can be picked up easily for use. During stor- age, keep in mind the height, weight, size, shape, safety etc. of the item. Functional storage of items will help in our day to-day use and functioning. Follow (PEEP) “Place for everything & everything on its place”. 3S. (SEISO) - CLEANLINESS: Here cleaning is in the form of cleaning inspection. Whenwearedoingcleaning, wearealso inspecting simultaneously, if something is unnecessary we are discarding those things under 1S and if during cleaning we have seen that any item is not kept in its proper place and we put them in its place, then we are doing under 2S. Hence whenever we are doing ‘3S’, it means that we are doing ‘1-S’ and ‘2-S’ simultaneously. In addition, we also check for the health of the machine, the lubrication, electrical connections etc. Clean your work place completely so that there should not be any dust