Lean 5S for Custodial – The Waste of Transportation
Let’s talk today about the waste of transportation which is defined as moving people, materials and information around the organization. I’m going to ask you to be very observant for this one! Just observe how much time you see being spent traveling, shifting things around, immediately responding to things by dropping immediate tasks and running to do something that possibly could have waited, things that I would call “chasing your tail”. I believe we all waste transportation time. One thing that made us think about it was when gasoline for our vehicles was skyrocketing a couple of years ago now – I believe that made us think about trips we made and coordinating as many tasks as possible when traveling with our vehicles but did we go back to our old habits once the price of gasoline dropped from that high level? So your homework assignment for this week is to be observant of others, observant of your own activities and how it might related to the waste of transporation – share your findings here.
