Identify waste, problems or conditions within a work area or activity where improvements can be made.

a) work activity chosen:

b) description of the waste/problem or condition

c)suggestions for improvements

P Identifying waste, problems or conditions within a work area or activity where improvements can be made lease read the toilet-ring as it will help you to answer question 21. Issues that affect efciency and productivity include: defects in products which will need time, money and resources to put right overproduction where resources are used up even though the product isn't required waiting time when work has to stop; this can be due to running out of materials, unbalanced workloads and insufficient staffing under-utilising talent, for example assigning the wrong staff to activities excess movementftransportation of materials which wastes time overprocessing which increases the cost in terms of both employee time and resources waste, in terms of materials and resources and labourftime issues of health and safety such as accidents or workrelated illness problems with machinery and the need for maintenance which could result in downtime