TITLE:
The Impact of 5S Strategy on the Safety Climate & Productivity at Egyptian Garment Firms (Assembly Plants)
AUTHORS:
K. M. Seddik
KEYWORDS:
Lean Manufacturing, 5S Event, Safety Climate, Productivity Measures, Egyptian Garment
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.7 No.2,
April
29,
2019
ABSTRACT: 5S is
one of the lean manufacturing tools that helps organizations to improve the
work environment. The philosophy of 5S interesting on eliminating waste and non-value activity which
increases labour efficiency and work area safety. Although many articles stated
the significant impact of implementing lean manufacturing
in worker environment, non-quantifiable results were reported. In this
article, the impact of the 5S event on the safety climate and productivity at
the assembly plant of Egyptian garment firms was studied. The sample was
divided into two groups based on 5S implementation. The Safety Climate
Assessment Tool survey (SCAT) was used in measuring the perceptions of safety
on a Likert-scale
while three productivity metric was calculated. The result presented that 5S
has a significant impact on 7 of 8 topics of safety climate. The management
commitment & the priority of safety climate at Egyptian garment firms need
to be developed while usage a no-blame approach to persuade people acting
safely has to be increased. In the same context, the results assigned that
productivity measures influenced by 5S event.