Run a Real 6S Audit on Your Floor
A guided walk from your phone. Sort through Safety, one section at a time. Tally the problems you see, get a score you can compare, and keep every audit so the trend is visible. Free account, one email, no card.
Start Your First Audit Free →This tool replaced our downloadable 6S audit PDF. Everything the checklist did, plus the part paper could never do.
The clipboard problem
Most 6S programs don't fail on the cleanup. The kickoff goes great. The area gets sorted, straightened, and shined. Somebody prints an audit sheet, walks the floor twice, and then the clipboard goes in a drawer.
That's not a discipline problem. It's a system problem. A paper audit has no memory. Nobody schedules the next one, nobody compares this month to last month, and the findings die on the sheet. Six weeks later the area looks the way it did before the kickoff, and everyone quietly agrees 6S "didn't stick here."
The audit isn't the hard part. Keeping the audit alive is. So we built the keeping-alive part.
What the walk looks like
Set up an area (a work cell, a work center, a piece of equipment, or an office), pick the question set that matches your business, and hit start.
Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain, Safety, in order, with a one-line reminder of what each S is actually for.
See a problem, tap it. Zero problems is a clean question. The score derives itself, so two auditors walking the same area get comparable numbers.
Big buttons, phone-first, and every answer saves as you go. Shop wifi dies in the corner by the compressor? Keep walking. It catches up when the signal does.
Generic, Print, General Manufacturing, and Service. A pressroom and a front office should not be graded on the same questions.
What paper can never do
Overall percentage plus a breakdown across all six sections, so the weakest S is obvious at a glance.
Every score lands in a band, from Sustaining down to Firefighting, with a plain-English read on what to do about it.
Every audit is compared to the last one, section by section. Up 7 overall but down 10 on Safety is a very different conversation than "we got an 82."
Every problem you tally is a finding. One tap turns it into a task with an owner. The audit is how you find it, the task is how you fix it, and the next audit proves whether it worked.
What free gets you
The free account covers two areas with a full guided audit experience and your last three audits per area. That's a real 6S program for a small operation, not a demo. If it works and you want more areas, more history, and scheduling, that's what the paid tiers are for. No card to start, no sales call.
Start Your First Audit Free →6S audit questions, answered
What is a 6S audit?
A 6S audit is a structured walk of a work area scored against the six S's: Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain, and Safety. It checks whether the area has what it needs and nothing else, whether everything has a home, whether the area is clean enough to spot problems, and whether the systems that keep it that way are actually being followed. Safety is the sixth S, and it gets its own section rather than being sprinkled through the others.
How is 6S different from 5S?
6S is 5S plus Safety. The original five S's cover organization and standardization. Adding Safety as its own discipline forces the audit to look for hazards directly: blocked exits, trip hazards, missing machine guards, improper chemical storage. Plenty of areas score well on tidy and poorly on safe.
How often should you run a 6S audit?
Weekly is the standard I teach. The audit itself takes 15 to 30 minutes once the area is set up. The cadence matters more than the duration, because the audit is the mechanism that keeps the first four S's from decaying. If weekly is genuinely impossible, pick a cadence you will actually keep and defend it.
What's a good 6S audit score?
Above 90 percent means the area is sustaining its standard. 70 to 89 means it's slipping and the findings need owners this week. 50 to 69 means the standard exists on paper but not on the floor. Below 50 means nobody is maintaining the area, and the answer isn't a cleanup blitz, it's rebuilding one S at a time. The number matters less than the direction it's moving across audits.