Developing a Workplace Sustainability Policy and Procedures Report

This report provides a detailed examination of sustainability policies and procedures, focusing on implementation within Grow Management Consultants. It outlines the objectives of sustainability, emphasizing environmental preservation and resource conservation. The report details the key steps in policy development, including stakeholder consultation, implementation, and monitoring. It also highlights the benefits of sustainability for businesses, such as cost reduction and improved brand image. Furthermore, the report explores how sustainability can be integrated into business planning, using a seven-step approach. Life cycle mapping is discussed as a tool for environmental sustainability, with recommendations for policy effectiveness and potential policy options, including timeframes and costs. The report concludes with an emphasis on key performance indicators and the importance of eco-friendly practices.

SUSTAINABILI
TY POLICY
AND
PROCEDURE
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Introduction- scope and
objective of the sustainability
– To avoid disruption of the natural environment
– To conserve the natural resources
– To refrain from indulging into activities that are harmful for the environment
– To dispose wastes ensuring the advantage for the environment
– To ensure the prevention of the soil and air pollution
– To implement an adequately efficient sustainability policy

Key Steps in a Policy
Development Process
– Identifying the issue
– Identifying the individuals taking the main responsibility
– Gathering of information
– Drafting of policy
– Consultation with appropriate stakeholders
– Approval of the policy
– Considering the procedures that are required to be adopted
– Implementation
– Monitoring, review and revise

Main Components of a Policy
Document
– Purpose of the policy
– Scope of the policy
– Features of the policy
– Critique of the policy
– Recommendations

Policy Development Practices
– To get people posing the resistance to participate.
– Understanding and addressing of the resistance’s true nature.
– To remove the preoccupation of the staffs with the technical aspects that blocks
the acceptance of the new ideas.
– Concrete steps by the management.
– Discussion of the new policy with the staff.

Barriers to Introducing Policies
and Procedures
– The enquiry of the issue for a considerably long time without taking any actions
is a barrier in introducing policies and procedures.
– The attempt to avail everyone’s approval prior to the implementation is a
barrier in introducing policies and procedures.

Benefits of Sustainability for a
Business Enterprise
– Some of the benefits that can be experienced by a business when it adopts a
sustainable approach are reduction in costs and increased productivity, waste
reduction and the ability to make shareholders happy.
– Embracing sustainability measures will also give a business the ability to attract
investors and employees, and experience improvement in brand image as well
as competitive advantage.

How Sustainability can be
built into Business Planning
– Sustainability is something that can be built into business plan by Grow Consultants by
carrying out seven important steps.
– The first step would be to define the problem statement, the second would be to meet
with stakeholders, the third step will involve conducting product lifecycle assessment,
the fourth step will entail creating facilities management checklist, the fifth step will
involve developing a program that will illustrate positive as well as safe treatment of
employees, the sixth step will involve developing a program for the purpose of
community outreach and for building relationships with vendors and supplies.
– The seventh and final step by which sustainability can be built into business planning
would be to develop and implement an ethics policy.

Life cycle Mapping
– Life Cycle mapping is something that Grow Management Consultants is going to engage in with reference to its use of paper and paper
related products.
– The life cycle mapping tool is what the company is going to make use of in order to engage in the practice of environmental sustainability.
– This life cycle mapping tool is one that is characterized by a number of important stages.
– The first stage involves the acquisition of raw materials that are needed for the manufacture of products.
– The second stage refers to the actual production or manufacture of goods, the third stage refers to the sale, distribution and the purchase
of the goods and the services that have been produced, the fourth stage involves the actual use of the goods and services and the fifth
and final stage involves recycling of whatever has been used.
– The end of use is the last and final stage of life cycle mapping and it refers to the constructive transformation of wastage into recycled
products that can again be used over an extensive period of time instead of being generated as wastes into the surrounding environment.
– The lifestyle mapping tool is something that Grow Management Consultants can definitely deploy in order to make sure that the
company does not allow the release of toxic substances into the environment when its products and services reach the end of their life
cycle.
– Rather, such products are then recycled in order to bring about a reduction in waste and ensure the prevention of pollution.

Recommendations for Effectiveness
of Sustainability Policy
– Some of the key performance indicators that Grow Management Consultants is going to take
recourse to in order to determine how well its workplace sustainability policy is working out will
be to determine how much power or energy is being consumed every month, how much the
company’s employees are able to carry out business operations without opting for the use of
printed materials like printed documents for this purpose, whether waste bins are being used
scientifically or not and whether the cleaning materials used to clean up the office space are
having a corrosive impact on the surfaces that these are used on.
– If the company is able to see that power bills at the end of every month are at an all time low, that
its employees are able to carry out all official communication using electronic modes, if the office
space is being successfully cleaned through the use of eco friendly and bio degradable materials
and if the waste bins are being used regularly for the collection as well as the proper disposal of
trash, it will know that its workplace sustainability policy is having the effect that is desired.

Recommendations for Policy Options such
as Likely Effectiveness, Timeframe and
Cost
– The workplace sustainability policy as drawn up and implemented by Grow Management
Consultants is one that will be executed over a time span of twelve months.
– The effectiveness of the policy will be determined on the basis of how much it is that the
company is able to cut down on power consumption, how far it is able to engage in work
and communication without the use of paper, and how far it is able to engage in cleaning
activities without using harsh toxic substances for this purpose.
– The company will invest a substantive amount of money in energy efficient cooling and
heating devices, in fluorescent light bulbs and in the use of internet services to
implement its workplace sustainability policy in the most effective of ways.