Blue Healer Resort: Environmental Regulations and Resource Efficiency

This report provides a detailed analysis of Blue Healer Resort's environmental practices and resource usage. It begins by identifying applicable environmental regulations, such as the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act and the Environment Protection Act, and outlines procedures to assess the resort's compliance. The report then explores various environmental and resource efficiency systems, including waste management, energy saving, recycling, transport, and technological solutions. Benchmarks for environmental sustainability, such as UN Sustainable Development Goals and SASB, are discussed. The report also examines common environmental and energy efficiency issues within the hospitality industry. Furthermore, it documents the current resource usage of the resort's team members and proposes ways to reduce their environmental impact through work processes, such as encouraging public transport and using LED lighting. The report analyzes the company’s current purchasing and costing strategies, suggesting improvements to enhance sustainability. Finally, it discusses strategies for ensuring continued resource efficiency, such as productivity increases and waste assessments. The report concludes that organizations should prioritize resource consumption reduction and environmental sustainability.

Assessment Task 2
Resource usage
identification

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY............................................................................................................................3
Identify the environmental regulations that apply to the organisation...................................3
Describe, and analyse, procedures that would assess Blue Healer’s compliance with the
environmental/ sustainability regulations..............................................................................3
Explain at least five environmental and resource efficiency systems and procedures that
could be relevant for the Blue Healer....................................................................................3
Describe at least three benchmarks for environmental and resource sustainability that could
be relevant to the organisation...............................................................................................3
Outline at least three common environmental and energy efficiency issues within the
industry in which Blue Healer operates.................................................................................3
Review the case study information and document the current resource usage of your team
members.................................................................................................................................3
Document your team’s work processes as set out in the case study information and identify
at least three ways of reducing their environmental impact...................................................3
Document the company’s current purchasing strategies as set out in the case study
information. Analyse these and determine at least one way that each could be improved....4
Evaluate the company’s costing strategies and determine whether these can be changed to
ensure that the company take sustainability into consideration.............................................4
Discuss possible strategies for ensuring that resource efficiency continues to occur............4
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Blue Healer is a Resort that also include catering, spa, accommodation and
administration. located in the Blue Mountains close to Sydney, Australia. The following
report is based on the implementation of sustainability policy and procedures by Blue Healer
resort. It will cover the environmental regulations and resource efficiency systems for blue
healer. Further, the report will also explain the benchmarks for environmental sustainability
and purchasing & Costing strategies in relation with Blue Healer Resort.
MAIN BODY
Environmental regulations applicable on blue healer
 Environment protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, 1999 - It is the national
environmental law in Australia. As Blue Healer is a resort offering catering services
as well, it should not send its waste to the landfills to ensure protection of
environment and it should also recycle its equipments used at catering and
accommodation.
 Environment Protection Act, 1994 - This Australian law is also applicable on Blue
healer and it lists the obligations to prevent the environmental harm and
contamination(Farooq, 2021). Blue Healer needs to follow this act and should reduce
its catering and plastic waste.
Procedures to assess Blue Healer’s compliance with sustainability regulations
 Engage with Stakeholders – To comply with sustainability regulations, Blue Healer
must engage its stakeholders i.e. employees and customers to make them adopt
sustainability practices at the resort such as hotel staff, spa staff and kitchen staff.
 Eco friendly office lighting – One of the main issue of Blue Healer is it does not
ensure sustainability lighting. The organization must use eco friendly administration
lighting and ensure less waste of energy at its resort. It is the duty of cleaners at Blue
healer to turn the lights off timely.
Environmental and Resource efficiency system for Blue Healer
 Waste Management – Blue Header must use its extra food for charity. It must identify
zero landfill opportunities.
 Energy Saving – The company must use passive solar heats during cooler months to
save electricity and energy(Zhao and Hou, 2022).

 Recycling – Blue Healer must ensure its single use plastic recycling. The company
must conduct food waste audit.
 Transport – It should also recycle its old vehicles for upgradation. It must ensure less
pollution emissions from its vehicles.
 Technological – Blue Healer must use appropriate technology systems for accessing
solar power, LED light efficiency for energy saving. It must also use cheap energy
storage to ensure sustainability of environment.
Benchmarks for Environment and Resource Sustainability
 UN Sustainable Development Goals – This tool aims at people working in the field of
biodiversity and conservation to make it convenient to be with 169 targets that outline
the 17 UN SDGs.
 Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) – This tool can also be used for
comparing one’s own sustainable performance with standard performance stated by
(SASB).
 Global Reporting Initiative Standards – It promotes economic, environment and social
sustainability. It enables the organizations like Blue Healer to report their sustainable
practices for the purpose of improvement(Tiwari and Thakur, 2021).
Environment and Energy efficiency issues in hospitality industry
 Biodiversity loss – The hotels like Blue Healer in the hospitality industry are
contemplating mass fish extinction that is a great threat to biodiversity.
 Local air and water quality – The food and platic wastage being sent to the landfills is
spoiling the air and water quality.
 Energy efficiency issues – When hotels or accommodations like Blue Healer do not
make required efforts to save energy, it results in increased operating costs for the
company that ultimately impacts its profits.
Current resource use by the team members.
 In relation to the Blue Healer, the resort has human resources such as full time kitchen
staff, additional staff on casual basis, full time manager.
 The financial resources are also required by the resort for which it advances, bank
overdraft and so on.

 Physical resources includes the Plan office with five work stations, equipment for the
treatment, two vehicles, stationary material etc. all these resources are currently used
by the resort team members for providing their services to the guest.
Identify at least three ways of reducing their environmental impact through team’s work
processes.
 With reference to the Blue Healer, it can encourage the employee to use the public
transport instead of using their own vehicle for better environmental sustainability.
 It can change the office lighting with the LED lights which consume less
energy(Gamito, Madureira and Lima Santos, 2021). It should install the solar panel
which assist in reducing the greenhouse gases that occur generally by using the more
energy.
 The resort can switch to the post-consumer waste paper, paper products, and
packaging. This will assist in making the environment more sustainable and reduce
the impact of their work practices.
Determine at least one way of company’s current purchasing strategies that can be improved.
In context to Blue Healer, it can improve its purchasing strategies by building the
healthy relationship with the supplier and choose the optimum mix vendor who can provide
their best prices and terms. The resort require the supplier the quality products in order to
provide their best services to the customers and make the environment more sustainable.
Evaluate the company’s costing strategies to ensure sustainability.
With reference to Blue Healer, it can adopt the value based costing strategies in order
to attract the more customers for providing their best services by having the sustainable
supply chain. This will help in enhancing the trust among the customers.
Discuss possible strategies for ensuring that resource efficiency continues to occur.
In order to ensure the efficiency of the resources, Blue Healer should increase its
productivity and reduce the production cost. It should conduct the waste assessment so that it
can improve purchasing to reduce waste that will help in conserving energy and water.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it has been concluded that an organisation should use
resources which consume less electricity and help in making the environment more
sustainable.

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