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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Determine sustainability interactions with the community
  2. Engage with the community
  3. Compare issues raised with impacts determined
  4. Negotiate acceptable solutions
  5. Monitor and report progress of agreed solutions

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Sustainability incorporates all of

survival of the ecology/physical environment (to manage the impact of the business to ensure the survival of the physical environment)

economic viability (efficiency, cost and waste reduction and competitiveness to support survival of the business)

social sustainability (to manage the impact of the business to ensure its continued survival within the community and the survival of the community).

Community includes one or more of

residents living in the area of the value chain

people who use amenities in the area of the value chain

people who work near the value chain

employees of the value chain or the organisation

other organisations in the area of the value chain

general community.

Amenities include one or more of

roads and public transport

waterways

parks and gardens

public facilities, such as halls, libraries, shopping centres and other facilities open to the public.

Importance to the community is based on one or more of

significance of impact

importance perceived by a community member or organisation.

Sustainability issues of particular relevance include one or more of

particular sensitivities of the local ecology (e.g. endangered species, sensitive local flora/fauna, material scarcity, water availability)

general ecology issues and regulations (e.g. climate change and carbon footprint, pollution control measures)

particular local social issues (e.g. distortions to the housing market, disruption to local lifestyles)

general social issues (e.g. corporate citizenship, use or/deterioration to infrastructure)

particular local economic issues (e.g. cost of capital, profit margins, competition)

general economic issues (e.g. state of the economy, stage of the business cycle).

Significance of impact includes one or more of

permanent loss or degradation

loss or degradation which inhibits use by the following generation

temporary degradation requiring remediation

temporary degradation which is self remediating

speed of change/degradation/loss.

Sustainability impacts which cannot be prevented require mitigation and amelioration techniques which include one or more of

capture and storage (e.g. scrubbing) and similar ‘end of pipe’ solutions

dilution/dispersion and similar techniques which reduce concentration but not amount

other approaches which meet the sustainability requirements.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include the ability, across an organisation or section/department, to:

identify interactions with the community that are sustainability related

define and analyse impact of the interactions on the organisation and all or part of the value chain

develop and follow through on ways of reducing adverse impacts/improving positive impacts

communicate and negotiate improvements.

Knowledge Evidence

Must provide evidence that demonstrates sufficient knowledge to interact with relevant personnel and be able to identify and improve sustainability interactions with the community including knowledge of:

process and changes which occur at each step in selected value chain

principles of sustainability

causes of adverse ecological, social, economic impacts and methods of controlling/reducing them

root cause analysis

hierarchy of hazard control and its application to sustainability hazards

sustainability hierarchy

relevant legislation, regulation and protocols, government incentives and other initiatives

risk analysis and its application to sustainability risks

community benefits offered by the organisation/its value chain.