Develop Workplace Policies And Procedures For Sustainability Assignment
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DEVELOPWORKPLACE POLICIESAND PROCEDURES FORSUSTAINABILITY
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK1: Written Questions .............................................................................................................3TASK 2: Develop Sustainability Processes.....................................................................................7Part A: Identify of sustainability legislation, scope and stakeholders....................................7Part B: Gather Sustainable Data (Covered in PPT)................................................................9Part C: Develop Sustainable Policy........................................................................................9Part D: develop a sustainability plan....................................................................................10TASK3...........................................................................................................................................14Part A: Promote sustainability initiatives and responsibilities (Covered in PPT)................14Part B: Monitoring and record keeping process...................................................................14Part C: Implement strategies and communicate outcomes...................................................15Part D: Undertake continuous improvement .......................................................................16CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................18
INTRODUCTIONSustainable organisation seeks to maintain the balance at the triple bottom line of thepeople, planet and profitability in order to accomplish long term success and viability. Thisimplies that no business organisation can sustain without effective protection regarding thesafety, health and welfare of most of their valuable and useful resources. For this purpose, eachand every company has certain policies and procedures in order to maintain the workingatmosphere (Fien and Winfree, 2014). The organisation which is to be considered for this reportis Complete business solutions Australia which has started its business in the year 1985 whichdeals in rendering resources to the students who are involved in learning courses relating to thebusiness services. This report will contain certain written questions which will be required to beanswered relating to the sustainability. The later part of the report will focus on developingsustainability plan and implement and monitor sustainability processes. TASK1: Written Questions 1. Australian Government’s central piece of environmental legislation and its purpose.The Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conversation Act 1999(EPBC Act), isthe Australian government's central piece of environmental legislations. This act is involved incovering certain assessments and approvals. The act is involved in providing protection to thebio diversity and natural places (Gensby and et. al., 2014). The primary purpose this act is that itidentifies the seven key areas for improvement in the Australia and this includes World Heritageproperties, national heritage places that considers overseas places of historic values, wetlands ofinternational importance, threatened species and ecological communities, migratory species,common wealth marine places and lastly, nuclear actions. One of the primary purpose of this actis to promote the use of Indigenous peoples' knowledge of biodiversity. 2 (a). Appropriate process for developing policy and procedure.The process for developing policy and procedures is concerned with identifying the needsand requirements where policies will be developed in respect of anticipation of need and inresponse to need (Ghosh, 2015). Then delegation will take place where responsibilities will beassigned to different people as per their skills and capabilities and also lead responsible personwill be identified. It will concentrate on collecting information. Then policy will be drafted bytaking into consideration that the length of the policy has been maintained by avoiding the
complexity. Then consultation with the key stakeholders will take place and their views will betaken into consideration for further modification or implementation of the policy. After that thefinal approval of the policy will take place and consideration of procedures will be involvedbecause it is required for supporting internal policies. Further, implementation of the policy andmonitoring actions will be taken into consideration. (b). Type of people with whom consultation regarding the policy can be done.The stakeholders who have interest in the organisations policy and other related matterswill be required to be consulted and those who have the right to finalise the policy (Gualandrisand Kalchschmidt, 2014). Therefore, it involves, supporters, staff or volunteers, managementcommittee members, users of the services, employees, etc. (c). Strategies implemented for monitoring and reviewing policies.The strategies which needs to be implemented for monitoring and reviewing the policiesincludes the adoption of Plan-Do-Check-Action model which helps the developing certain plansfor reviewing the policies, implementing it, checking it and then if any deviation if found thencorrective action will be taken. Apart from this, the another strategy which can be adopted is that management of thecommittee must take into consideration the use of different reports against its annual operationalplans in order to review the success and growth of the company towards the attainment ofbusiness goals and objectives (Kaya Cicerali and Cicerali, 2016). With this, the organisation willbe able to ensure that whoever is performing the actions, is maintaining proper records throughwhich growth can be evaluated. The another strategy that helps in monitoring the policies is the environmental scanningthrough which organisation will be able to assess the internal and external business environmentand their impact on the policy. It will help in modifying and controlling the negative impact ofthe surroundings. 3. Responding the each of the barrier and challenges while implementing policy andprocedures.ChallengeResponseAn employee does not believethe new policy will be a benefitto the workplace. They are tooFor this purpose, the employees will becommunicated regarding the adoption offlexible working environment because business
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