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Facilitate and improve 5S in an office

Facilitate and improve 5S in an office

Unit of competency
National Code
MSS403039
State Code
BAK22
TGA Status
Replaced
DTWD Status
Replaced
Current Release Number
1.00
Current Release Date
22/06/2016
State Implementation and Classification
Approved Date
08/08/2016
Field of Education
080317 - Quality Management
Original Release Date
08/08/2016
Nominal Hours
50
Description
This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required by an individual to facilitate and improve the 5S in an office environment. The unit includes the skills required to adapt a traditional 5S approach to the particular problems and needs in an office implementation. The facilitation may be undertaken by formally designated supervisory staff, such as team leaders or other individuals in a competitive systems and practices implementation role for an office who need to provide support and encouragement to others to facilitate the achievement of 5S outcomes in the workplace.The unit applies to offices using formally designated team-based work structures, work groups or other forms of work organisation.The office environment for 5S may include administrative, transactional or service-based processes in, or attached to, a manufacturing organisation, within their value stream or similar environments, such as health care, education, financial, construction or Defence services.This unit has a strong emphasis on planning and change management, but also requires an ability to learn from experience and feed new information back into strategies to improve performance.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Notes
Elements and Performance Criteria
1 Plan for 5S implementation
  • 1.1 Facilitate agreement within the work group on prioritising and scheduling the application of 5S across target work areas.
  • 1.2 Assist individuals to identify own and collective office work group functions in the target work areas in terms of internal and/or external customer requirements.
  • 1.3 Assist individuals to identify how their own and collective office work group tasks contribute to the office functions.
  • 1.4 Establish communication and reporting processes with work group.
  • 1.5 Facilitate management support for 5S.
2 Facilitate the set-up of 5S
  • 2.1 Assist work group to determine what are necessary and unnecessary items in the work area.
  • 2.2 Assist work group to determine optimum assigned location for all necessary items.
  • 2.3 Liaise with relevant production and work health and safety (WHS) personnel to determine optimum locations.
  • 2.4 Assist work group to determine the appropriate place for unnecessary items.
  • 2.5 Assist work group to determine 5S schedule.
3 Facilitate the implementation of 5S
  • 3.1 Ensure procedures reflect 5S practices.
  • 3.2 Assess skill base of work group in 5S and arrange for any required training.
  • 3.3 Ensure that any damage and/or safety risks reported by the team are addressed through correct mechanisms.
4 Monitor 5S
  • 4.1 Check work area for 5S implementation as part of normal routine.
  • 4.2 Identify non-conformances.
  • 4.3 Negotiate solutions to non-conformances.
5 Improve 5S
  • 5.1 Work with work group to find areas for improvement.
  • 5.2 Assist work group to develop improvement solutions.
  • 5.3 Facilitate the availability of resources required for the improvement solution.
  • 5.4 Facilitate the implementation of the improvement solution.
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Replaces
State Code National Code Title Type
WD529 MSS403039A Facilitate and improve 5S in an office Unit of competency
Replaced By
State Code National Code Title Type
OEQ14 MSS403045 Facilitate and improve 5S Unit of competency