FIVE S APPROACH TO OUR HSSE COMMITMENT
SEIRI (Sort)
- A clean place is a safe place.
- Cleaning starts with sorting.
- Sort any given population of items, activities, behaviors, attitudes and even entities, etc.
- Separate important from non-important; useful from wasteful; critical from non-critical.
- Classify into “Dos and Don’ts”.
- Dispose of and discard the wasteful, unwanted items / activities / attitudes / behaviors.
- Retain the important, useful and critical items / activities / entities / behaviors / attitudes.

First Step: Safety starts from cleaning
Cleaning starts from sorting
Sorting separates crucial from the clutter
SEITON (Set in Order)
- Assign priorities to the chosen items.
- Do a 80 / 20.
- Do a Pareto analysis.
- Rank critical items in accordance of their relative importance.
- Separate few “vitals” from many “trivial”.
- Assign a place to everything and assign everything to its designated place.

Second Step: Assign a place for everything – and put everything in its place.
Put the action where the money is.

SEISO (Shine)
- Make “Continuous Improvement” in HSSE a way of life.
- Make it a 24 x 7 affair, round the year, every year, year after year.
- Don’t allow switch “off” and “on” and “fits and start” mentality.
- Put it under your skins, in your blood, in your DNA
- Check out before you step out
- Consider HSSE an unending journey instead of a race, which has an end-point.
- In a race there is a last lap which takes you to the victory, in HSSE every lap is a lap to victory
Gradually raise the bar / Take small incremental steps. - Even a small step is a big step.
- Build a hierarchy of personal commitments, top down and share / review.
- Learn from the achievers, support underperformers.
- Bring change by Involving technology, creating HSSE systems, improving mindsets / behavior patterns
Third Step: Shine to surpass previous best
SEIKETSU (Standardize)
- Ensure steps / actions to keep the shine.
- Establish standards.
- Develop checklists.
- Talk not, Tick.
- Use control charts, Poka Yoke
- Develop jigs and fixtures or their equivalent(s).
- Integrate with daily work management.

Fourth Step: Standardize to maintain consistency
and hold the gains.
SHITSUKE (Self Discipline)
- Create an environment through slogans, posters and other visuals
- Identify BIC performance and use benchmarking vis a vis BIC.
- Lead by example (Be a Mr. Marriott).
- Conduct audits to evaluate approach and results.
- Recognize and reward.

Fifth Step: Walk the talk: Do what you say
Action speaks louder than the words