5S and Safety
OVERVIEW The webinar will cover the history of 5S, as depicted in the language of money, to help gain buy-in by organizational decision makers. Several aspects of what we now call 5S were clearly visible at the Ford Motor Company during the first part of the 20th century, where they played a central role in the organization's unprecedented world-class performance. Henry Ford also introduced safety techniques such as what we now call lockout-tagout and error proofing; his goal was to make accidents physically impossible as opposed to relying on worker vigilance. "Can't rather than don't" means, for example, that the worker can't put his or her hand in the machinery as opposed to having to remember to not do it. The webinar will cover the 5Ss in detail, and how they interact to improve the safety, quality, and productivity of operations. It will then go on to discuss safety, including Ford's common sense twelve common root causes of accidents and how ...