Workplace Policy and Procedures for Sustainability

Develop Workplace
Policy and
Procedures for
Sustainability
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Assessment Task 1
Question 1 List one piece of legislation, one regulation and one code of practice that relate
to environmental issues in this workplace. Explain the compliance requirements of each (50 –
80 words for each).
Answer:
Piece of legislation
Environment protection and biodiversity conservation act 1999: it is that piece of
legislation which is passed by the Australian government centre environment this act was
passed by the government where it provide a legal framework to protect and manage
nationality this act was passed by the government where it provides a legal framework to
protect and manage nationality and international importance of flora, fauna, ecological
community and heritage places in national and international level for national environmental
significance. This have various inner part which are related to conservation of Australian
biodiversity protect biodiversity internationally by controlling the international movements of
wildlife and providing a steam line environment assessment.
Regulation
EPBC act: it is a regulation formed by the Australian nation for protecting the
environment where it includes the eight matters of national environment significance. These
are world heritage properties, national heritage places, wetland of international importance
which are listed under Ramsar convention, migratory species protected under international
agreements, list of threatened species and ecological communities, commonwealth marine
areas, The Great barrier reef marine park and nuclear reaction including uranium mines.
Code of practice
Code of practice for aquifer storage and recovery: the main purpose of this is for
aquifer storage and recovery where only and is not intended for disposal of from water
without pre-treatment monitoring and recovery. ASR is storage of water in well during the
time when water is available and recovery of the same water from the well during the time
when it is needed. This is scheme is covered under the environment protection act which
concerned with the quality of water stored and recovered in section 25 of imposes the journal
environment duty.
Question 2. Read the Pompoms Hotel Waste management policy. Review the policy
identifying areas where Pompoms Hotel can improve their practices (80 – 100 words).
Answer:
Pompoms hotel adopted a proper policy which helps various stakeholders as well as
employees. This also protects the environment and reduces the wastage within the
environment but still there is some scope of improvement within this policy.
Here, organisation can adopt more flexible policy where it can easily manage the
waste as well as increase the contribution of employees within waste management by
facilitating them a proper training and development program.
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Question 3. a) Describe the general procedure you would follow in an organisation for
seeking approval to change current policies (50 – 80 words).
Answer: Stages in policy changes
1. Identifying needs
2. Identify who will take the lead responsibility
3. Gather information
4. Draft new policy
5. Consult with appropriate stakeholders
6. Getting approval for policy
7. Generating the procedure required to follow
8. Implementation
9. Monitoring and review.
b) List five stakeholders you could seek input from when setting objectives and targets. For
each example provide the type of input they may provide (80 – 100 words).
Answer:
S.No. Stakeholder Type of input
1 Management Implementation of different function and motivation in
organization
2 Employees Employee will help in implementation of all these policies
within the organization and facilitate smooth working
3 Government Government will directly help in providing different benefits
related to the policy.
4 Board of
directors
Board of director contributes by providing their concerned as
well as arranging finance for the waste management.
5 Public Public will support the organization as well as help in increasing
the profitability by consuming the product.
Question 4. List three approaches you could apply in the workplace to assess compliance
with sustainability practices (50 – 70 words).
Answer: The three practices for better environment sustainability by the help of organisation.
1. Increase the employees of the organisation to use public transport for reducing the
emission of co2 in environment.
2. Change to ecofriendly office lighting by changing it with solar energy.
3. Switch to post consumer wastage paper, products and packaging by establishing a
proper recycling system within the organisation and use 45% less energy.
Question 5
Describe how you could measure and document current resource usage for the following at
Pompoms Hotel.
 Paper
 Energy such as electricity
 Transportation
 Wastage.
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