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Scenario · Materials Recovery Facility

Run a 5S event in the pre-sort cabin

You are a sorting line operator on the day shift in the Materials Recovery Facility.

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The situation

What has happened

The pre-sort cabin at Eastern Creek is where sorters pull bulky items, hazardous items, film plastic and contamination from the infeed belt before the optical sorters. The last monthly 5S audit scored 2.4 out of 5. Sharps containers are in three different places, the battery sand bin is at one end only, tongs go missing and the floor is cluttered with cardboard and personal items. Last week a smouldering lithium battery came through and a sorter had to run the length of the cabin to find the tongs. Luca Bianchi has given you and three other sorters Wednesday morning with the line stopped to run the first pass of 5S in the cabin, with Tomasz Nowak supporting.

Your brief. Run the sort, set in order, shine and standardise steps in the pre-sort cabin with the crew, red tag uncertain items, agree the location of every needed item including sharps containers, battery bins and tongs, write the cleaning and inspection standard, and record the improvement in the register with before and after evidence.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Red tag log
  • Marked layout with locations for every needed item
  • Cabin cleaning and inspection standard work document
  • Continuous improvement register entry with before and after audit scores

Documents to use

Systems to use

Continuous Improvement Register

Tracks improvement actions from every site and program with owner, due date, status and measured benefit.

Incident, Hazard and Environmental Event Register

Logs injuries, near misses, hazards, fires, spills, odour events, complaints and licence exceedances with severity, actions and closure.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Sustainability as at 10 September 2026.

MSS402042Apply 5S procedures
MSS402056Apply and improve standardised work practices
MSS402003Apply competitive systems and practices
MSS014015Improve sustainability through readily implementable change

Qualifications

MSS30322Certificate III in Competitive Systems and Practices
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

Look for the five steps applied in order with the crew involved, a red tag log with reasons, a layout that puts the safety critical items within reach of every position, a standard work document that a new sorter could follow, and an honest re-audit score. The register entry must carry before and after evidence rather than a description alone.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.