BSBSUS501: Sustainability Policy and Procedure Development

This report outlines the scope of sustainability in the workplace and the steps involved in developing and implementing effective sustainability policies and procedures. It emphasizes the importance of reducing toxic resource use, minimizing noise pollution, and creating a friendly work environment. The report details how to gather information, tailor business policies to environmental needs, define obligations, and implement realistic policies. It also covers communicating these policies to stakeholders and the impact of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on people, society, and employees, referencing various sources to support its claims. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study resources for students.

Management

Scope of sustainability
 Sustainability refers to the practice that
helps the business to maintain level in
the environmental changes and grow
without harming them. Scope of
sustainability policy is to reduce use of
toxic resources, eliminate noise an
create a friendly environment for people
to work (Barr, 2016).

Workplace sustainability policy
and procedure and its impacts
 All the companies present in the
environment perform actions that affect
the nature in some way or other.
Creation of sustainability management
system using the self development
goals in Australia will allow the
companies to monitor their activities
and achieve environmental objectives
as well (Emas, 2015).

Steps to implement
sustainability policy in business
 Gather information from the market
 Tailoring the current business policies
according to the need of the environment
 Clear definition of the obligation and SDGs
 Implementation of policies that are realistic
and approachable Kivimaa, & Kern, 2016)
 Publication of the policies and procedures
 Survey of information to stakeholders
 Training of employees of the company

Impact of SDG on stakeholders
 People: education of SDG helps the company
to rely on people. All the people attain
information about the activities of the
company that increases their trust.
 Society: the society grows on the positive
scale as the SDG helps in the upliftment of
the environment (Mowforth, & Munt, 2015).
 Employees: they attain training that helps
them to become competent and environment
friendly

Communication of policy to
stakeholders
 The sustainability policy are
communicated to the stakeholders
through different ways. The stakeholders
are free to approach the company in case
of issue. With the unanimous agreement of
the stakeholders the company implement
the procedures to fulfill the Sustainable
development goals in the environment
(Nilsson, Griggs, & Visbeck, 2016).

References
 Barr, S. (2016). Environment and society: Sustainability, policy
and the citizen. UK: Routledge
 Emas, R. (2015). The concept of sustainable development:
Definition and defining principles. Florida International University
 Kivimaa, P., & Kern, F. (2016). Creative destruction or mere niche
support? Innovation policy mixes for sustainability
transitions. Research Policy, 45(1), 205-217.
 Mowforth, M., & Munt, I. (2015). Tourism and sustainability:
Development, globalisation and new tourism in the third world.
UK: Routledge.
 Nilsson, M., Griggs, D., & Visbeck, M. (2016). Policy: map the
interactions between Sustainable Development Goals. Nature
News, 534(7607), 320.