Elements and Performance Criteria
- Investigate current workplace practices in relation to resource usage.
- Identify environmental regulations applying to the enterprise.
- Evaluate procedures for assessing compliance with environmental regulations.
- Collect information on environmental and resource-efficient systems and procedures, and share information with team members.
- Measure and document current resource usage by members of the work group.
- Analyse and document current purchasing strategies.
- Analyse current work processes to access information and data to assist in identifying areas for improvement.
- Consult with colleagues and other stakeholders regarding issues of environmental sustainability, including environmental responsibilities and environmental impacts.
- Set targets for resource usage improvements to sustainable work practices.
- Seek and integrate input from stakeholders, key personnel and specialists.
- Assess external sources of information and data as required to inform decisions on improvements.
- Evaluate alternative solutions to workplace environmental issues and incorporate outcomes into workplace operations.
- Set efficiency targets for resource usage.
- Develop procedures to minimise or negate potential negative environmental impacts and maximise positive environmental impacts.
- Seek a coordinated effort amongst stakeholders, key personnel and specialists to operate in an environmentally sustainable manner.
- Implement performance improvement strategies.
- Source techniques and tools to assist in achieving performance improvement targets.
- Apply continuous improvement strategies to own work area of responsibility and communicate ideas and possible solutions to the work group and management.
- Integrate and implement environmental and resource efficiency improvement plans for own work group with those from other operational activities.
- Seek, and where appropriate act upon, suggestions and ideas about environmental and resource management from stakeholders.
- Implement costing strategies to determine value of environmental assets.
- Provide a role model for colleagues, customers and stakeholders in relation to environmentally sustainable operations.
- Monitor performance and improvement strategies.
- Document outcomes and communicate reports on performance improvement targets to key personnel and stakeholders.
- Evaluate strategies to identify required modifications and inform further performance improvement strategies.
- Set new targets and investigate and apply new tools and strategies.
- Promote successful strategies and where possible reward participants.
- Monitor and accurately record workplace practices that have been established to improve the environmental sustainability of enterprise operations.