Implementation of the 5S lean tool at a laboratory station
in the road industry
Natalia Jagieła¹* (orcid id: 0000-0002-7372-7492)
José Carlos de Sá² (orcid id:0000-0002-2228-5348) ¹
Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
² ISEP, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
DOI: 10.17512/bozpe.2025.14.21
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KEYWORDS
5S, lean tool, lean construction, lean management
ABSTRACT
The concept of lean management is increasingly being adopted in all economic sectors around the
world. The benefits of its use allow you to eliminate waste, save time, money and natural
resources, while increasing the quality of the final product. Implementing lean tools into the
organizational structures of enterprises improves the quality of work at each workstation,
minimizes the level of accidents and increases the company’s competitiveness on the industry
market. The aim of the study was to identify existing problems at the workplace in the road
engineering laboratory and to propose 5S to eliminate them. To this end, a survey was con- ducted
among laboratory employees and a visual assessment was conducted before and after the improvements
were implemented. Based on the results, it was concluded that the identi- fied areas of waste were
eliminated, primarily by reducing the time spent searching for tools,
materials, and equipment by approximately 33.33 %.
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