BSBSUS501: Project on Developing Workplace Policies for Sustainability

This project focuses on the development of a workplace sustainability policy and procedures, specifically addressing BSBSUS501. The student's work encompasses several key areas, including gathering information, defining the scope of the policy, developing detailed policies and procedures, and creating an implementation plan. The assignment highlights the importance of sustainable management practices, emphasizing the reduction of resource use, waste minimization, and the elimination of toxic substances. The student's approach involves analyzing the organization's environmental impact, stakeholder consultation, and the integration of sustainability into daily work practices. The project also considers the financial and operational implications of sustainability initiatives, aiming to create policies that align with the organization's commitment to environmental responsibility and compliance with relevant regulations. The implementation plan includes steps for communicating the policy to stakeholders, training staff, and monitoring progress to ensure the effective execution and continuous improvement of sustainability efforts within the workplace.

ASSESSMENT COVER SHEET
Assessment Details
Unit Code and Title BSBSUS501 Develop Workplace Policy and Procedures for Sustainability
Assessment Type A2 – Simulation/Project Re-assessment YES NO
Due Date
Student Details
Student Name Student ID
Instructions to Students: Please read the following instructions carefully.
 The purpose of this assessment is to assess your knowledge and skills.
 This assessment is to be completed according to the instructions given by your assessor.
 To be deemed satisfactory in this assessment, you must write the answers to all written questions correctly or meet all the
performance criteria for activity based assessments by the due date.
 Submission after the due date will result in a penalty fee.
 Should you not answer the tasks correctly, you will be given feedback on the results and gaps in knowledge. You will be entitled to one
(1) resubmission in showing your competence with this unit.
 If you feel the decision made by your assessor was incorrect please refer to your Student Handbook for information on assessment
appeal for the required steps to appeal the decision.
 If you are not sure about any aspect of this assessment, please ask for clarification from your assessor.
 Please refer to the College re-submission and re-sit policy for more information.
 If you have questions and other concerns that may affect your performance in the Assessment, please inform the assessor
immediately.
 Please read the tasks carefully then complete all tasks.
 To be deemed competent for this unit you must achieve a satisfactory result with tasks of this Assessment along with a satisfactory
result for another Assessment.
 Remember, that it must be your own work and if you use other sources then you must reference these appropriately.
 Submitted document should follow the given criteria. Font should be Times New Roman, Font size need to be 12, line spacing has to
be Single line and Footer of submitted document must include Student ID, Student Name and Page Number. Document should be printed
double sided.
 This is individual Assessment. Once you have completed the assessment, please provide the hard copy of the Assessments to your
Trainer/ Assessor.
 Plagiarism is copying someone else’s work and submitting it as your own. Any plagiarism will result in NYC.
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Assessor’s Name
Assessment Decision: To be accessed as satisfactory in this assessment task, the student must address ALL assessment items/questions
satisfactorily.
All individual assessment tasks of this unit must be completed satisfactorily for a student to achieve an overall grade of competent for this
unit.
The Student’s Performance is SATISFACTORY NOT SATISFACTORY
Student Declaration: I declare that I have read and agreed to
the instructions mentioned above and declare that the work
submitted is my own and has not been copied or plagiarized from
any person or source. I have been assessed in this unit and advised
of my result. I am aware of my appeal rights.
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valid and flexible assessment with this student and I provided
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A S S E S S M E N T I N F O R M A T I O N
Welcome to your Student Assessment Workbook for BSBRSK501 Manage Risk.
This Workbook is where you will write all your responses for the knowledge questions and
simulation tasks. Please refer to the Student Assessment Guide for more information.
This assessment has the following two events:
Assessment Event 2 – Simulation/Project: Smartech
You will complete a number of tasks that will provide us with evidence of your skills with
developing a comprehensive Risk Management Plan, and evaluating and monitoring the outcomes.
These tasks will be based on your role of Risk Officer in a simulation with an information
technology organisation that manufactures electronic devices in China and sells in Australia.
To complete the Simulation, you will need to refer to the following resource:
Risk Management
Policy and Procedures
SmarTech policy and procedures for managing risks. You will follow
these procedures when planning and producing the Risk Management
Plan from the start of Assessment Event 2 to the completion.
Please note that your responses for both assessment events can (where appropriate) use dot point
format. See below an example of a dot point response and a full sentence response.
Dot point format Presentation Plan includes the following:
 outcomes
 needs of the audience
 context.
Full sentence
format
When you are preparing for a presentation, there are a number of tasks
that must be carried out. These are listing the outcomes that you want to
achieve, followed by the identification of the needs of your audience. When
you have completed these two tasks you then check on the room that you
will be conducting the presentation in.
To Achieve Competence
To be deemed competent for this unit, you will need to meet the following requirements:
 complete all of the questions and tasks listed in this Student Assessment Workbook
 meet all the requirements listed in the Student Assessment Guide
 your responses to the questions and tasks must be relevant, accurate and specific
 submit your completed Student Assessment Workbook to your Assessor within the set
timeframes
 your work must be in your own words
 where you use an external source of information, you must provide citation.
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A S S E S S M E N T 2 – S I M U L A T I O N / P R O J E C T
In this assessment, you will undertake a number of tasks associated with planning and implementing
a set of policies and procedures for Go Green. The focus is on recycling, minimising resource use and
reducing toxic substances. To achieve this, you will perform the following actions:
 develop your sustainability policy and procedures
 communicate this to users of the sustainability initiative
 implement the policy and procedures
 review and improve the policy and procedures.
Task 1: Develop Workplace Sustainability Policy
In this task, you will plan the development of your policies and procedures.
1.1 Gather information
Insert your response here:
The organization engage in the different activities that have impact on the environment or culture. It
can be used usage of resources such as water, paper and other natural energy. It provide the
facilities to reduce waste, emission that are generated. The company will mainly focus on the
sustainable management system which allows for enterprises to monitor and control these impact.
In order to achieve its environmental objectives. In another way, it also gathering the information
related the sustainability policy where how they can further processes and contributing to
stakeholders, implementing procedures and conducting regular review to ensure the improvement
and growth.
Risk Officer in a simulation with an information technology organisation which mainly
implement smart tech policy which always support for collecting important information where how
it will reduce the consumption and protecting natural resources. It is mainly focused on the different
element such as economic growth, preservation and protection of environment, improvement of
human as well as social rights Policy making is consider as holistic approach which needs for building
own understanding.
Apart from that when preparing to develop workplace sustainability policy that can be implemented
in the organization in context of sustainability. In order to support for identifying accurate result or
outcome. It must be consider financial implication, time line for implementation. Ultimately, develop
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the sustainability policy that should reflect on the enterprise commitment to the part of planning
process.
1.2 Develop scope
Insert your responses here:
Generally, scope may refers to how policy will apply within organization. It is the most important
thing that needs to understand. When company will develop the policy and procedure after
examining the current environment situation in term of climate change. In this way, sustainable
development polices will cover and apply every day work practices. BHP engage with environment
conscious suppliers, contractors and other reporting system. Sometimes, it inclusion of environment
as well as financial result calculate in proper manner. BHP Billiton operates within dynamic
enterprise environment so that organization will change the policy. In order set up the new direction
which involves bigger commitment towards energy efficiency.
An essential consideration in becoming compliance with relevant to environment rules and
regulation. Sometimes, it is not being compliant attracts with multiple penalties and fines. The
development scope of policy is to provide benefits for organization through regulations.
 In order to minimise the harmful affects on environment or culture.
 It is being perceived as responsible for handling the overall environmental condition.
Sometimes it will be creating the positive impact on other stakeholders. It involves
communist, supplier, customer, investors.
 Potentially, it has increased the profitability while being more attractive and also reduce the
price of energy.
Apart from that scope of development policy is to establish the accurate legislation which are
relevant to the organization. In order to identify the indirect as well as direct environment impact on
the management strategies. Policy will help for reducing the negative aspects of climate change
within enterprise.
1.3 Develop policies and procedures
Inset your response here:
Sustainability is often associated with environment issue such as climate change. However, it will
require to understand interlocking components that associated with sustainability. Nowadays, it will
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be implementing the actions such as ecological, social consequences and economic for future
improvement. When developing the policy, it should be following different steps for development.
 Define the scope of sustainability policy
 Gathering or collecting the information from a wide range of source to plan and develop
sustainability policy.
 Determine and consult with stakeholder as key components of policy development process.
 It must be applying an appropriate strategies in policy making.
 Make accurate recommendations for policy option on the basis of their cost, time and
effectiveness.
As per analysis, the risk officer is mainly focused on the develop a climate change policy which
providing the better direction. Sometimes, it involving the bigger commitment to save energy and
also clean energy research as well as workplace culture. In order to develop the climate change
policy to use improve environment condition. However, it is adapting the change that will be
increasingly identify the competitive advantage. It is important to develop policy and procedure that
reflect on the enterprise commitment to sustainability. This policy should include the sustainable
statement and how it will be achieved.
On the other hand, it is likely to make aware about the policy and addressed as priority.
However, it also implementing the sustainability policy to resolve environment issues. In order to
reduce the environment impact of organization in proper manner.
1.4 Develop implementation plan for policies and procedures
Inset your response here:
Implementation plan can be defined as necessary aspects to minimise the environmental issue or
problem. the sustainability policies in term of climate change which require to follow the different
steps in proper manner.
Promote workplace sustainability policy including expected result to key stakeholders
According to scenario, The risk officer will always support for considering the responsibility for
environment issue or problem in regards of climate change. During implementation, it is mainly
include liability if any type of breaches occurs. The organization should consider environmental
policy that help for maintaining the position of sufficient authority to create or change policy. In this
phase, it is mainly concerned about the legal compliances, provision training, developing and
monitoring the activities.
Involved in the implementing the policy
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In this process, it is setting the environment management which providing the direction in term of
sustainable development. For Staff members, it is able to understand and implement the policy as
well as procedure. Sometimes, it is considering the communication information and providing
regular update in environment management.
Develop and communicate procedure to implement workplace sustainability policy
It has been implementing the policy in order achieve the understand the area of enterprise. The
Primary aim is to control and improve the climate change impacts. In organization, Staff member
require to collect information and achieve their key performance. This process will help for
developing the coordination with other stakeholder for recording huge amount of data and keep it
up to date through workplace policy.
1.5 Seek approval with policy and procedures plan
Upon the receipt of the feedback from your Manager, make the necessary adjustments to your
implementation plan.
It is an essential part for implementing the policy which require to take an approval from higher
authority. Afterwards, it can move to next level. Senior executive authority will provide the better
leadership of sustainability policy development. It ensure that policy development which give more
priorities and focused on the area of high risk. For seeking the approval with policy and procedure
plan in step by step processes.
 Complete policy requirement form: it is initial phase where identifying the policy
requirement which help for minimising environment impacts. Each and every staff member
are establishing the coordination between manager, executive and other employees. In
order to record the data and fill necessary information.
 Policy analyst will perform the significant role to review policy requirement form. In order to
discuss about the changes within policy authority.
 Other sponsor and SEC give more prioritize policy activities. It also taking an approval
through PRF form.
 Afterwards, Policy authority will perform the necessary task for drafting policy or
procedures. Sometimes, it also assists from policy analyst to gather essential information or
data.
 Senior Executive council review the policy and procedure which mainly depending type of
activities. It also discussed with policy stakeholder and implement the legal processes.
 At last, It will be implementing the policy for communicate with other members, executives.
Furthermore, It also sign the policy on behalf of executive sponsor and president.
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Task 2: Communicate Workplace Sustainability Policy
In this task, you will deliver a session to inform users of the policy, on how to implement the
procedures into their workplace.
Promote policies and procedures to users
You are not required to insert any responses here. You will be observed by your assessor using the
Observation Check Sheet. Please see your Student Assessment Guide for more information.
In this session, it is an important for promoting the policies as well as procedures related to climate
change. It will require for identifying the different process that implement in the workplace. It should
be following the different steps for implementing the sustainability policy in the workplace.
 Identify the requirement of policy: It is important phase which require to create policy for
every unforeseen event as calculating the limits. In some situation, it can be addressed the
individual needs or unique situation. Policy should give a brief idea about the expectation
and continuously reduce the harmful effects on environment.
 Determine policy content: it is another process when describing the guideline what
organization requirement and how staff member handle policies in proper manner. By
implementing policies, it should be carefully avoid language that convey rigid rules. Policy
need to be written in the clear language so that it can easily implemented at workplace.
 Obtain stakeholder support: All often those who are extremely expected to carry out the
sustainability policy. Once it has been drafted which require to communicate with managers,
supervisors in regards of policy. In order to address the impact of policy which has discussed
with stakeholders.
 Update and revise policy: it is important phase before implementing policies in the
workplace. It will require to select well-written content and regularly view the relation with
staff members. In this way, it can easily understanding the role of polices and also
maintaining the employment practices.
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Task 3: Implement Workplace Sustainability Policy
In this task, you will record results in the workplace with your implemented policies and procedures.
Record results with implementation of policies and procedures
Inset your response here:
After implementing the policies which require to identify their positive result or outcome.
Furthermore, keep records helps maintain an effective workplace in term of health or safety
management. The record can provide the brief idea about the control before there is an incident
which directly impact on the overall business environment. All recording related to health and safety
in workplace. It can be identified the certain result or outcome.
 It can easily registered the information or data related the injuries if occurred at workplace.
 It is obtaining standards operating system which automatically give alert message to staff
members.
 Manager will provide the better facilities to staff members in term of compensation and
rehabilitation.
In this way, it will be analysed the improvement where each and every staff member adapt new
thing. In order to review any issues related safety in the workplace. The policy will provide better
result where employee understand the organizational targets, obtaining additional resources for
improving the task management activities. Improvement strategies are implemented and then try to
evaluate the process. It became easier for executive, manager and employee to compare their
performance. It will help to assess the effectiveness of prevention. In some situation, it can easily
identify the requirement to develop an effective workplace environment through policies and
procedures.
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Task 4: Review Workplace Sustainability Policy Implementation
In this task, you will monitor results in the workplace and make changes to your policy and
procedure if required.
4.1 Identify any variance and provide feedback to stakeholders
Upon the receipt of the feedback from your stakeholders, attach the email exchange with these
stakeholders:
The external stakeholders who server on policies implementation which may be selected the general
skills, knowledge and involvement in the policy changes. It may require to expertise that would be
particularly helpful in the implementing system. For instance, Manager and other executives are
communicating with other stakeholder. In order to identify their opinion or view point in regards of
policy changes. Stakeholders are adapting quality improvement process by dividing the multiple
task. It must ensure that formalised communication within certain loops among various groups.
Especially when people acquire the policy division and training unit be strongly established
connection between them.
After implementing the policies and procedures, it will be identifying the certain variances among
staff members, supervisor within different key areas. At that time, stakeholder on timely initial
contact and time to finish their investigation. Managers, executives are changing priorities in regards
of policy management. For Example- it is mainly focused on the staff members and other executives
that should be recorded as priority level.
Sometimes, it become obvious thing that identified variance because trends, demand has
completely changed as per requirement. So as require to maintain the better coordination between
stakeholders where if possible to implement new thing. It became suitable for future growth and
development.
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4.2 Identify and analyse issues with the implementation
Inset your response here:
Policy implementation is mainly involved for translating specific goals and objective. Afterwards, it
will be implementing the policy for maintain workplace environment. Sometimes, policy
implementation is related to new thing in the broader domain of workplace culture or environment.
Furthermore. It can be identifying the problem in the policy implementation.
Conceptual problem: Once implementing the policy which has been required to understand the
nature of complex thing. These kind of policies to address the problem in term design patterns. It is
not properly maintained the resources, sufficient time. So that it has chances to increase conceptual
problem occurs after policy implementation.
Political problem: Sometimes, policies and procedures give a complex because it is based on the
heavily centralised. Although the central government has been enthusiastic adapting innovative
population. However, it is finding the consequence when environment degradation as often lacked
the requisite political will. Staff members are not completely aware about the complex situation
where it has increased the conflict problem among people in the workplace.
Administrative problem: when implementing policies, it has begun the problem where administrator
limits of significant role. In this way, it is not perfectly define the external element resources which
essential for task management.
4.3 Modify policy and procedures
Make modifications to your policy and procedures, then attach the finalised version:
Policy is intended to assists in dispute resolution. However, there are various issue or
problem occurs but an appropriate policy will help for managing their positive aspects in workplace.
As identified the various dispute among staff members. In order to modify policies and procedures
on the basis of requirement. The primary reason is to describe the chances where staff members
wish to make an effective environment. At some point, it is not applicable for every time so as
needed to change or modify policies. Before starting the section of modification that will require to
discuss with different stakeholders. Each and every members should give their own opinion, view
point which become easier for reaching the conclusion.
As modified the policies and procedures, it must require to analyse the result of change in setting
certain dispute. It would be better to examine the affect among staff members. Afterwards, it should
be freely to make changes in policy by introducing as changes in the workplace.
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T A S K O U T C O M E S H E E T
The Feedback Evaluation Sheet below is the assessment questions and tasks for each of the assessment events
that the student is required to complete. Assessors, tick ‘S’ if the student achieved a satisfactory outcome for
an assessment task and ‘NYS’ if the student does not meet these requirements. Also, you are required to write
comments on the quality of this evidence under the ‘Comments’ column. For your judgement on the student’s
overall performance, tick ‘Satisfactory’ if the student achieves a satisfactory outcome for all of the tasks or
‘Not-Yet-Satisfactory’.
Assessment Event 2 S NYS Comments
Task 1:
Gather
information
Sub
Task 1.1
Sub
Task 1.2
Sub
Task 1.3
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Assessment Event 2 S NYS Comments
Sub
Task 1.4
Sub
Task 1.5
Task 2:
Communicate workplace
sustainability policy
Task 3:
Implement workplace
sustainability policy
Task 4:
Review
workplace
sustainability
policy
Sub
Task 4.1
Sub
Task 4.2
Sub
Task 4.3
The student’s overall performance is 
Satisfactory  Not-Yet-Satisfactory
Assessor Signature: Date:
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