Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish an environmental management system.
- Select an appropriate Environmental Management System as a model for the enterprise/plant
- Develop environmental management policies that reflect the organisation's commitment to environmental sustainability as an integral part of business planning and as a business opportunity
- Establish strategies to encourage all stakeholders to meet high standards of environmental performance and support sustainable innovation and continuous improvement
- Establish policies and procedures to incorporate and support triple bottom line principles
- Establish policies/procedures which minimise environmental impacts
- Check policies conform to current regulatory requirements
- Address environmental management at the planning, design and evaluation stages to ensure that any changes in the workplace are identified for ongoing impact and opportunity.
- Manage innovation and improvement.
- Identify, evaluate and take into consideration changing trends and opportunities relevant to the organisation for ongoing improvement programs
- Promote continuous improvement and sustainable innovation as an essential part of doing business and as a context for assessment and planning of environmental performance
- Establish continuous improvement and innovation policies and procedures that include training and professional development to optimise the environmental performance of the organisation
- Establish a system to analyse and communicate the costs and benefits of innovations and improvements and to measure, monitor and record environmental performance
- Establish performance benchmarks and indicators and set targets to maximise continuous improvement.
- Review environmental management system.