AMPX410 - Facilitate achievement of enterprise environmental policies and goals assessment tool

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AMPX410
Facilitate achievement of enterprise environmental policies and goals

Assessment tool

Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to facilitate the achievement of enterprise environmental goals. It includes developing a workforce understanding of and commitment to environmental responsibility and sustainability and techniques for monitoring and minimising environmental impact and waste.

Management of environmental impact is a high priority for the meat processing industry. All industry members are responsible for environmental management and sustainability.

This unit is applicable to for first line managers, including supervisors and team leaders in all meat industry sectors.

All work should be carried out to comply with workplace and regulatory requirements.

This unit applies to individuals who take responsibility for their own work and for the quality of othersâ€™ work within known parameters. They provide and communicate solutions to a range of predictable and sometimes unpredictable problems.

This unit must be delivered and assessed in the context of Australian meat industry standards and regulations.

No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements are known to apply to this unit at the time of publication.

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Evidence Required

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Element	Performance criteria
Elements describe the essential outcomes.	Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.
1. Clarify enterprise policies and responsibilities for minimising environmental impact	1.1 Locate relevant company documents, policies and legal obligations and clarify requirements for enterprise operations 1.2 Explain responsibilities for minimising environmental impact to individuals and teams 1.3 Develop individual and team commitment to enterprise environmental management strategy
2. Implement environment management procedures	2.1 Plan work practices with colleagues to ensure compliance with workplace and legislative environmental management requirements 2.2 Implement work practices in accordance with legal requirements and standards for environment protection 2.3 Coach and mentor colleagues to support them in managing their responsibilities for environmental protection
3. Monitor, adjust and report performance	3.1 Measure environmental impacts including pollutants, emissions and waste in accordance with enterprise procedures and regulatory requirements 3.2 Identify, rectify and report actual and potential problems promptly and decisively to ensure environmental safety 3.3 Manage environmental hazards to minimise risks 3.4 Carry out waste recycling, reduction and disposal within legislative and enterprise requirements 3.5 Submit recommendations to improve environmental and waste procedures and controls to designated persons and groups 3.6 Inform individuals and teams about results of workplace environmental improvements 3.7 Maintain systems, records and reporting procedures in accordance with legal requirements
4. Investigate and report environmental non-conformance	4.1 Investigate and deal with non-conformance in accordance with legal requirements 4.2 Provide coaching and mentoring to support colleagues to acquire and apply competencies to meet legal requirements and associated standards 4.3 Implement, review and improve workplace environmental and waste minimisation practices to ensure lack of repetitious non-conformance

The candidate must facilitate the achievement of enterprise environmental policies and goals for at least one section or department of the enterprise for a period of at least three months.

The candidate must:

adjust and improve own work practice as a result of self-evaluation, feedback from others or in response to changed work practices or technology

consult with stakeholders, individuals and teams to develop and review environmental procedures

maintain currency of knowledge through independent research or professional development

develop, in conjunction with managers, environmental targets for the section or department

apply consultation, negotiation and mentoring skills in interactions with employees, managers, peers and technical experts

determine and take corrective actions to eliminate or minimise environmental risks

ensure that procedures are followed by all employees in the area of responsibility

explain environmental management requirements, procedures and responsibilities clearly to individuals and teams, in appropriate styles, formats and language

identify and apply relevant communication and mathematical skills

identify environmental hazards and conduct risk analyses

interpret monitoring information and take corrective action

apply relevant workplace health and safety regulatory and workplace requirements

investigate, analyse and report environmental incidents, in accordance with enterprise procedures

measure and monitor pollutants, emission and waste levels for the area of responsibility

prepare reports containing technical and mathematical information for employees, managers and peers

recognise limits of own expertise seeking additional expertise when necessary

utilise informal and formal consultative strategies to build individual and team commitment to environmental goals and procedures

The candidate must demonstrate a broad factual, technical and theoretical knowledge of:

enterprise goals, targets and performance measures

enterprise environmental management policies and legal obligations and responsibilities

legal and regulatory requirements as applicable to enterprise

All evidence must be collected in the context of current Australian meat industry standards and regulations.

A minimum of three different forms of assessment must be used.

Assessors must satisfy current standards for RTOs.

Submission Requirements

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Assessment Tasks

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Element	Performance criteria
Elements describe the essential outcomes.	Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.
1. Clarify enterprise policies and responsibilities for minimising environmental impact	1.1 Locate relevant company documents, policies and legal obligations and clarify requirements for enterprise operations 1.2 Explain responsibilities for minimising environmental impact to individuals and teams 1.3 Develop individual and team commitment to enterprise environmental management strategy
2. Implement environment management procedures	2.1 Plan work practices with colleagues to ensure compliance with workplace and legislative environmental management requirements 2.2 Implement work practices in accordance with legal requirements and standards for environment protection 2.3 Coach and mentor colleagues to support them in managing their responsibilities for environmental protection
3. Monitor, adjust and report performance	3.1 Measure environmental impacts including pollutants, emissions and waste in accordance with enterprise procedures and regulatory requirements 3.2 Identify, rectify and report actual and potential problems promptly and decisively to ensure environmental safety 3.3 Manage environmental hazards to minimise risks 3.4 Carry out waste recycling, reduction and disposal within legislative and enterprise requirements 3.5 Submit recommendations to improve environmental and waste procedures and controls to designated persons and groups 3.6 Inform individuals and teams about results of workplace environmental improvements 3.7 Maintain systems, records and reporting procedures in accordance with legal requirements
4. Investigate and report environmental non-conformance	4.1 Investigate and deal with non-conformance in accordance with legal requirements 4.2 Provide coaching and mentoring to support colleagues to acquire and apply competencies to meet legal requirements and associated standards 4.3 Implement, review and improve workplace environmental and waste minimisation practices to ensure lack of repetitious non-conformance