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E-book Manual for Implementation of 5s in Hospital Setting
The 5S-Kaizen-Total Quality Management (TQM) is the three-step approach to improve hospital management under limited resources. The steps are: a) Application of 5S (Sort, Set, Shine, Standardize and Sustain) for improvement of working environment; b) Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) or KAIZEN activities for evidence-based participatory problem solving at the workplace for continuous quality improvement; and c) TQM (total quality management) as an approach to make maximal use of capacity of the entire organization. This approach is based on the Japanese management tool originally used in the industrial sector like Toyota and other companies. In the year 2000, Dr. Wimal Karandagoda, Director of Castle Street Hospital, Sri Lanka, first applied this industrial tool to his hospital. Although he experienced some resistance from staff at the beginning, he could successfully implement the approach to the whole hospital. The ā5Sā is directed to improve the working environment. KAIZEN is a Japanese word meaning Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI). This is a problem-solving approach that can be spread to the whole organization under the leadership of top management. The TQM stage comes once the CQI stage is over.
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