BSBSUS501 Advanced Diploma: Workplace Sustainability Policy Report

This report provides a personal reflection on sustainability strategies and policies, covering the scope of the policy, key stakeholders and their roles, relevant laws and standards, expected outcomes, and methods for implementation. It further details an implementation strategy document, focusing on ...Read More

Personal reflection
Sustainability strategies

Sustainable policy
• Scope of the policy
 I have leaned that the scope of the policy define
various activities that are carried out that aim to
reduce impact of the company process in the
environment.
 The policy gives the features of sustainability
practice carried out by the organization.

Key stakeholders and their roles
and responsibilities
• I have learned various stakeholders that include
customers, management, government, community and
business community.
• Customers for the company play an important role of
evaluating activities of the company.
• The company management has role and responsibility of
implementing the policy after its adoption.
• The government and all regulatory bodies form important
aspect of approval and regulation of business activities of
the company.
• The community is another important stakeholder of the
company and forms partnership with the company to
enhance sustainability.

Relevant laws and standards
• Personally I have learned various laws and
standards
• Some of the laws I have learn are environmental
regulations, reduce pollutions, labour laws and
business ethical codes are some standards
• Industry best practice
• I have learned that industry best practice involves
increase sustainability practices that ensure low
emission of pollutants into the environment,
effective human resource management and
community involvement in the sustainability
practices.

Expected outcomes
• I think some of the expected outcomes
include
• Reduced environmental impact of
company’s activities
• Effective human resources management
and sustainability
• Sustainable environmental practices
• Community partnership in sustainability
practices

Methods for implementation
• The company needs to recover more land that
has been under mining activities.
• The company needs to involve community in
the application of sustainability practices.
• The company should evaluate the amount of
pollutant released and reduce the amount of
greenhouse gases produced.
• The company needs to develop sustainability
team that will spear head the implementation
of the policy hence progress reporting.

Assessment Task 2:
Implementation strategy document
• I have learn various aspects of strategy implementation
• The purpose of this document is to highlight the
implementation strategy for the sustainability policy.
• Strategies for minimizing resource use
• The strategies for minimizing resource use is embedded on
efficient resource use and continuous evaluation of the
resource use to ensure that only intended resources are
used.
• Strategies for reducing toxic material and hazardous
chemical use
• The company develops toxic monitoring and detection
systems within its waste output point to detect the amount of
toxic released into the environment.

Benefits of employing life cycle
management approaches
• I have learn benefits of employing life cycle management
and this include evaluation of the extent of emission into
the environment, evaluation of the environmental impact
of the company and management of the energy
consumption and efficiencies of a company.
• Communication plan for involving all stakeholders
• The communication plan involves reaching various
stakeholders through social media, broadcast media,
print media and other communication methods.
• Social media communication of the policy to customers
and other stakeholders is important for implementation
of policy.

Procedures and measurement or
indicators
• Procedures for implementing policy initiatives I have
learned
• The procedure of implementing policy include formation of
the implementation team to spearhead the implementation,
planning, resource mobilization, launching of the policy
implementation, actual implementation, evaluation and
reporting of the progress or achievement.
• Measures or benchmark indicators to identify outcomes
• Some of the indicators for measuring or identification of
outcome include customer rating, amount of carbon gases
released into the environment, energy expenditure in
production, nature of the input used in production and overall
company performance.

Responsibilities and feedback analysis
• Key responsibilities
• Implementation team is tasked to implementing policy and
reporting on the progress.
• Management evaluate the progress of the policy implementation.
• Customers evaluate the sustainability of the company and its
products thus giving feedback.
• Policy makers and regulators regulate the business activities to
ensure that the business remain sustainable.
• Processes to collect and analyze feedback once the policy has
been implemented
• Feedback will be collected using customer rating and feedback,
analysis of carbon samples to ensure that the amount of carbon
released into the environment is known.
• Customers view are collected to ensure sustainability strategies are
properly implemented.

Plan for continuous improvement
using Deming’s PDCA cycle
• The policy implementation team will use Deming’s PDCA
cycle for analysis of the production to ensure that the
company life cycle.
• In addition, the Deming’s PDCA cycle is an important tool
used in evaluate of various stages of production in the life
cycle of the company.
• Conclusion
• In conclusion, sustainability policies play an important role
in the company or organization’s operations.
• Development of sustainable practice policy is therefore
critical for future operation of companies and organizations.
• Various companies has sustainable policies that ensure that
the company remain up to date with environmental issues.

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