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Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2009 Vol I WCE 2009, July 1 - 3, 2009, London, U.K. Development of 5S Practice Checklist for Manufacturing Industry N. Khamis, M. N. Ab Rahman, K.R. Jamaludin, A.R. Ismail, J.A. Ghani, R. Zulkifli The 5S Practice is a technique used to establish and Abstract—This paper explores the practical use of the 5S maintain quality environment in an organization. The Checklist for environment, housekeeping and health, as well as original concept was developed by Osada in the early 1980s. safety improvement purposes at two manufacturing The acronym 5S stands for the five Japanese words seiri organizations. The main objective of this study is to assess the (organization), seiton (neatness), seiso (cleanliness), seiketsu implementation of 5S and development of the 5S Activity (standardization), and shitsuke (discipline). Checklist in manufacturing companies. The scope for this study covers the following areas: identifying problems, looking into In a manufacturing environment, the 5S in practice can critical success factors, their outcomes and recommendations. bring in results that could considerably raise the In addition, factors that may act as constraints to the environmental performance in line with the improved implementation of the 5S activity and possible solutions for the housekeeping and health safety. The