Create Better Work Environments with Our 5-S Initiatives

Are disorganization and lackluster housekeeping costing you valuable time, space, energy and resources? For most organizations, the real numbers are staggering. If this is true for your health care facility, the time has come to change the way work gets done.

Improving Work Areas to Improve Employee and Patient Satisfaction

Our "5S Initiative” leads you in a facility-wide clean-up and reorganization of work areas to create a better environment for employees and patients. Using the 5S system – sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain – we guide you in discriminating between needed and unneeded supplies and equipment based on necessary work at each station.

Placing Things at the Point of Use and in the Sequence of Use

Once clutter is gone, we help you place things at the point of use (POU) and in the sequence of use (SOU). Next everything is cleaned, with official locations established for supplies and equipment. Finally, we help you establish good habits to ensure compliance. This initiative, customized for your site, will include eight hours of on-site training and expert AveraOpEx facilitation, tools and audits as you implement 5S.