7S: System of Good

Housekeeping
Key Principles:
• Organization makes work and life easier.
• Organizing is a skill that can be learned.
• Becoming organized is a two step process.

1. GETTING organized

2. STAYING ORGANIZED
PDCA CYCLE
Attempts to provide a repeatable set of steps
that a team or individual can learn and follow

Select the
problems/process
Reflect and
that will be
act on addressed first (or
learning next) and describe
the improvement
opportunity

Review and Implement the

evaluate the solution or
result of the process change.
change
Clean Workplace
Dispose unnecessary items
Arrange in good order
Leakage prevention NO OBSTACLES IN
WORKPLACE
Noise suppression
EASY TO WORK
Dust prevention KEEP GOOD QUALITY
Clean sight

IMPROVED
ENVIRONMENT
7S: System of Good Housekeeping
Sustain
Techniques that
Sort
provide a
methodology for
organizing,
Safety Systematize cleaning,
Sustain

developing, and

Sustain
Self-
Discipline
sustaining a
productive work
Standar
Shine environment.
dize

Sustain
S:1 - Sort
This is the Take out
most unnecessary
important items and dispose
step. them.

Separating things in terms of

what is necessary from those
that are not.
IMMEDIATE
NO POTENTIAL
DISPOSAL
USE

THINGS NOT POTENTIALLY CONSIDER WHERE

NEEDED USEFUL OR USEFUL & MOVE
VALUABLE
ARRANGE
REQUIRING RESPONSIBLE,
SPECIAL INEXPENSIVE
DISPOSAL DISPOSAL
Flow of Sorting Process
Make a list of all
items found within
the Workplace

Verify to
ensure the
list

Classify the
needed and
not needed
S:2 - Systematize
ARRANGING ELIMINATING TIME
NECESSARY ITEMS WASTED IN SEARCHING
IN GOOD ORDER FOR THINGS WE NEED.
FOR USE

FUNCTIONAL
STORAGE ORGANIZING

PLACE A LITTLE
THINGS USED NEARER
CONSTANTLY

THINGS THINGS USED PLACE A LITTLE

NEEDED OCCASIONALLY FARTHER

ENCLOSE IN A
SELDOM USED SEPARATE,
DESIGNATED PLACE
S:3 - Shine

Cleaning your
workplace and
eliminating the root
cause.

Creating a
spotless
workplace

Removing everything from the work

that should not be there.
S:4 - Standardize

Maintaining high
standard of
housekeeping

It involves the development

of a clear system for
maintaining cleanliness
and orderliness

Standardization can be
achieved through “visual
control” system.
Standardize using Visual Control

Visual Control is a TECHNIQUE

to enable people to make rules easy
to follow, differentiate normal and
abnormal situations and act
accordingly, with the use of visual
acts.
S:5 – Self Discipline

Doing things
spontaneously without
being told or ordered.

Developing habits you

won’t forget.
S:6 – Safety
Freedom from unacceptable risk of harm brought
about by clean and orderly environment

 Poor housekeeping can be

a cause of accidents

 A workplace must maintain

order throughout the
workplace
S:7 – Sustain
CONTINUOUSLY PERFORM
THE 7S ACTIVITIES AND
SEEK FURTHER
IMPROVEMENT
 What is the purpose of
WORKPLACE HOUSEKEEPING?
Poor housekeeping can be a CAUSE OF ACCIDENTS, such
as:
1. TRIPPING OVER loose objects on floors, stairs and
platforms
2. BEING HIT by falling objects
3. SLIPPING on greasy, wet or dirty surfaces
4. STRIKING AGAINST projecting, poorly stacked items or
misplaced material
5. CUTTING, PUNCTURING, or TEARING the skin of hands
or other parts of the body on projecting nails, wire or
steel strapping
a WORKPLACE must “MAINTAIN” ORDER
throughout a workday.
7S – its link with Productivity

PRODUCTIVITY?

It is a MEASURE OF
THE EFFICIENCY OF
PRODUCTION.
Productivity is a ratio
of production (output)
to what is required to
produce it (inputs)
If we make it a way of life, we will
reap the following benefits:

MORE SPACE
BETTER ACCESSIBILITY
IMPROVED EFFICIENCY
GOOD HABITS
ENDURED SAFETY
 It is not what you think,
it is how you think.

Let us do it the Marist way and as

one Marist Community.