Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop energy conservation and management philosophies and strategies.
- Factors to be included in the organisational energy conservation and management system are quantified and qualified.
- Strategic factors that impact on the organisational ability to improve energy conservation and management practices and processes are evaluated.
- Range and scope of activities being undertaken by the organisation in regard to energy conservation and management are quantified.
- Previous policy and operational factors contributing to energy conservation and management are evaluated.
- Organisational energy conservation and management policy and strategy are developed, with assessment of savings and benefits to be derived.
- Scope the introduction and management of energy conservation and management principles and processes.
- Board and senior management are consulted concerning the introduction and implementation of the energy conservation and management policy and strategy.
- Organisational policy and management guidelines are developed covering energy conservation and management within and external to the organisation.
- Strategic plan for the introduction of the policy and strategy is developed and documented.
- Staff are briefed on criteria for implementing and maintaining systems concerned with energy conservation and management.
- Methods are developed to gather and monitor energy conservation and management information essential to the management process.
- Methods are developed to translate the policy into practice in the organisation and on site.
- Implement the energy conservation and management system.
- Energy conservation and management instructions are built into organisational operating procedures.
- Staff training program is introduced to ensure that energy conservation and management practices are applied to organisational activities on a daily basis.
- Methods for determining effectiveness of the energy conservation and management system are introduced.
- Routine monitoring of energy benchmarks is established and maintained.
- Manage the organisational energy conservation processes.
- Energy conservation and management issues are added to the process agenda at all levels of the organisation.
- Contractors and employees are advised of and monitored within the framework.
- Policy guidelines and obligations are circulated within the organisation and sign-off by staff, employees and contractors is obtained.
- Staff compliance with energy conservation and management policy is monitored.
- Implement an energy management feedback system.