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BENEFITS

BENEFITS FOR EMPLOYERS BENEFITS FOR LEARNERS
Benefits for employers include: Benefits for learners include:
• Increased productivity • Improved knowledge, skills and
• Improved motivation and engagement in behaviours to improve performance
the workplace • Help with career progression
• Improved quality of work • Increased job satisfaction
• Staff will achieve an industry recognised • Increased confidence
qualification • Raised profile within your organisation
• Helps longer term succession planning • Platform for further learning and
• Visible commitment and investment progression
(delegates and team members)
• Helps with career progression planning

THE COURSE

CORE KNOWLEDGE
A Lean Manufacturing Operative will have the following knowledge and understanding of:

1) Health & Safety: Relevant statutory, 6) Problem Solving: The tools and methods of
organisational and health and safety effective problem solving using data, reports
regulations relating to lean manufacturing and documents to resolve production
operations and safe practices related issues e.g. A3 report, graphs,
2) Environmental: Compliance procedures/ matrices and escalate concerns
systems in line with regulatory 7) Continuous Improvement: How to study
requirements e.g. ISO 14001 or other relevant and identify ways to improve the safety,
environmental standards quality, cost or process efficiency using lean
3) Production: Their individual roles and manufacturing tools e.g. kaizen
responsibilities within the organisation 8) Communication: How to share information
and the flexibility required to deliver using a range of methods within the
products to meet customers costs/delivery manufacturing environment e.g. oral,
targets/requirements e.g. Just In Time (JIT) written, electronic, information boards,
4) Lean Manufacturing Operations: visual displays
Manufacturing standard operation 9) Work Place Organisation: How to maintain
procedures (SOPs) adherence and a safe and efficient work site through work
development of lean processes place organisation e.g. 5s and process
5) Quality Control: Process equipment ownership
monitoring, data collection, error proofing
and operating procedures e.g. ISO 9002 or
other relevant quality standards