5S – Shadows Boards Are Bad and Reflection is Good

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I’m doing a gemba walk and I find a tool setting on a piece of equipment.  I look at the shadow board for the area which is about 12 feet away.  What should I do?

1. Pick the tool up and put it in its place.
2. Deduct one point on the 5S audit form.
3. Stand in an imaginary 30″ circle and watch what happens to the tool.
4. Ask the operator why the tool is where it currently is.
5. Blame the operator and take the appropriate disciplinary action in accordance with the collective bargained agreement or the employee handbook whichever applies.
6. Some other distractor that I can’t come up with right now.

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