MSS403039 - Facilitate and improve 5S in an office

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.