Implement and Monitor Sustainable Work Practices Project: BSBSUS401

This project, based on the BSBSUS401 unit, focuses on implementing and monitoring sustainable work practices within an organization. The assignment assesses the student's understanding of environmental issues, current laws, and the importance of "going green" in the workplace. It covers topics such as waste management (the five R's), energy efficiency, procurement, and IT practices. The project includes analyzing environmental impacts, suggesting improvements in areas like energy consumption, paper usage, and food miles. Students are required to develop surveys, make recommendations, and prepare a report to management outlining a sustainable improvement initiative, including relevant legislation and policies. The assessment emphasizes practical application and the development of strategies to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable operations.

Implement and monitor
sustainable work
practices

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
ASSESSMENT 1.............................................................................................................................3
ASSESSMENT 2.............................................................................................................................6
PART 1............................................................................................................................................6
PART 2............................................................................................................................................8
PART 3............................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERNCES:................................................................................................................................12
Books and Journals:...................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
The operations of organisations is majorly affecting environment which is creating
hazardous impacts on health of human resources. In order to reduce this there is need of
sustainability in working procedures, for which there are many legal laws made by governing
bodies (Lennox, Maher and Reed 2018). The report performed shows how environment is
affected and what measures are taken to reduce the harm by bothy government and organisation.
MAIN BODY
ASSESSMENT 1
1. In general, what environmental / sustainable issues do our current laws focus on?
The environmental issues that current laws focus on in overall manner are conservation of
environment and reducing waste disposal.
2. Visit the EPA website and conduct the following research:
a) What is the name of the environmental legislation that the EPA implements and
regulates.
National Environment Protection Council, 1995
b) Provide an example of when the EPA will accept an enforceable undertaking.
EPA will accept an enforceable undertaking only when there has been a misconduct in following
of any guidelines and legislations given by the act.
3.
a) In your own words, why is it important to go green in your workplace?
The organisations are bound by several laws and regulations which are for health and safety of
its employees. In order to accomplish these organisations are required to go green.
b) Your business can profit from environmental management through: Strike through the
incorrect answer strike out
 spending less on raw materials, energy and water
 recognition for your efforts through environmental awards
 not needing to consider safety in environmental management practices
 achieving a reputation for best practice by following voluntary industry codes of conduct
or the international environmental standard ISO 14000 series
 finding new market opportunities for "green" goods and services

 improving workplace safety through reduced use of industrial chemicals and reduced
waste
 a positive reputation as a business that cares about its impact on the environment.
4. What steps can you take to improve the environmental impact in relation to lighting
within your organisation?
To improve the environmental impact within organisation, it is required to train and create
awareness among the employees and staff so that they use electricity in optimised manner.
5. What steps can you take to improve the environmental impact in relation to IT within
your organisation?
To improve the environmental impact within organisation, it is required to train and create
awareness among the employees and staff so that they use IT services and technology in proper
manner and are bound top any frauds (Adams, Martin and Boom 2018).
6.
a) What steps can you take to improve the environmental impact in procurement within
your organisation?
The organisation can take measures to reduce the waste disposal by reusing and reducing the
waste items in an innovative manner.
b) Visit the business.gov.au website and find and list four environmental risks that may
affect your business.
Four environmental risks that affect business:
 Climatic Changes
 Trends and Fashion
 Inflation
 Change in Level of Income
7. Explain the five R's in terms of waste management.
R's in waste management:
 Refuse: Refusing the purchase of non recyclable materials so that operations are
conducted with sustenance.
 Reuse: Reusing refers to using back the items which were used earlier in order to control
waste.

 Reduce: Reducing refers to limiting the use of non recyclable materials in operational
process.
 Recycle: Recycling items is the most preferred environmental friendly method which can
limit the waste disposal. This can result in reducing the cost of operations.
 Repurpose: When an item or a process is not able to be reduced, reused, refused efforts
are made to repurpose the same. It is achieved using uniqueness and creativity which
makes organisation bring innovation.
8. Provide 4 ways you can "Reduce" in your office?
 Buying in bulk.
 Going digital
 Using recycling bin handy
 Serving Filtered water
9. Provide 4 ways you can "Reuse" in your office?
 Giving back the packaging materials
 Recycling papers
 Disposing dead batteries
 Using back the aluminium cans
10. Provide 4 ways you can "Recycle" in your office?
 Reducing waste by recycling wastes
 Reusing old stuff in a creative way
 Recycling the paper
 Using cans and bottles for decorative purposes.
11. Conduct research into benchmarks using the Energy management guide for tenants in
the assessment resource list.
a) What is the NABERS five-star rating system?
The NABERS Energy for offices rating is a national rating system that measures building
performance on a scale of zero to six stars (Allen, Metternicht and Wiedmann 2018).
b) What is the average rating for an office?
5 star rating
12.

a) Refer to the Energy management guide for tenants list five Energy Management Policy
inclusions, you think must be included.
1. Purpose
2. Scope
3. Policy Statement
4. Policy Objectives
5. Governance and Responsibilities
b) What is great about an Energy Management Policy. List five great things
 Reduced Costs
 Improving staff’s competencies
 Enhancing ROI
 Better Goodwill
 Saves environment
13. What issues relating to sustainability could you include in a company’s employment
policy?
Replacing employees commute from office vehicles rather than personal vehicles.
Making employees well versed with recycling of sources used.
ASSESSMENT 2
PART 1
1. In your words describe all of the environmental impact issues of this office (or your
workplace) environment? Be sure you include the details of any hazards caused by the
current situation.
 Increase in air pollutants causing respiratory diseases.
 Affecting biodiversity by using resources in high quantity.
 Extensively hunting endangered species.
 Increase in Global Warming
2. How would you lessen the environmental impact of this office (or your workplace)? Be
sure you cover energy, utilities, paper, garbage and any other issues you feel are relevant.
To reduce the impact of environmental degradation, it is required to create awareness and form
strict rules and regulation to abide by the measures.

3. Prepare a survey with at least 10 questions relating to the environmental impact of this
business that you could use to gather more information about workers habits in the
building. What recommendations could you make about the heating, cooling and lighting
of the building based on this information?
1. Is the raw material used, legal and authorised?
Yes or No
2. Do you follow environmental management system?
Yes or No
3. Are you certified under environmental protection agency?
Yes or No
4. Have you appointed specific person who is specialised in laws and regulations?
Yes or No
5. Have you ever found guilty of breaching laws and regulations?
Yes or No
6. Do you use waste management technique for waste disposal?
Yes or No
7. Do you track authenticity of raw materials?
Yes or No
8. Do you organise campaigns for social awareness?
Yes or No
9. Do you recycle packaging items?
Yes or No
Recommendations:
When staff is high it is required to perform timely activities like preparing tea and coffee which
requires continued heating and cooling and for this purpose resources are used in bulk. Thus to
reduce this organisation should use renewable sources of energy like solar energy or wind
energy.
4. Suggest other more energy efficient ways in which boiling and chilled water could be
provided? You will need to do some research on the actual cost of boiling water units and
alternatives. Include this information in your answer.

The boiling water can be provided in reusable glass mugs whereas the cold water can be served
in mud or pottery based utensils which can be recycled without harming environment.
5. Suggest at least ways in which paper consumption could be reduced.
 Using digital medium
 Reusing paper
 Recording and sending information
6. Suggest TWO (2) ways you could measure if there was any reduction in paper use?
 Checking cash inflows and outflows
 Managing inventory
PART 2
1. What environmentally friendly practices can you use at work?
Car pooling, in order to reduce petrol usage and save resources.
2. What do you understand by the term “food miles”?
It is referred to as place from where food is transported to the places where it is actually sold.
3. What can you do to minimise the food miles in your current:
 Food purchasing
 Clothing purchasing
4. Suggest at least TWO (2) reasons why public transport (trains, trams and buses) are
more environmentally friendly than motor vehicles?
 They will reduce pressure on depletion of resources namely petrol or diesel.
 Will result in reduction in air pollution.
6. Access information and data and make suggestions to improve current purchasing
and practices, relevant to these usages.
 The current practices and purchasing measures can be improved by purchasing from
recognised sources who are certified in products which they are offering.
 By asking for government certification.
PART 3
Prepare a report to management that sets out a sustainable improvement initiative.

Organisations working under critical conditions will affect market by affecting the
sustainability by harming the environment. For this purpose it is required by the industries to
work under the legal framework which governing bodies have prepared. This will make them
work in a proper manner without high involvement of government bodies or the institutions who
are bound to work in the same direction. In pursuit of this the governing body of the country has
prepared several acts and given detailed guidelines as to what is to be achieved and in what
manner. Along with this the acts also describes what will be the impact if the guidelines and acts
are misused or not followed appropriately (Chams and García-Blandón 2019).
The major act can be seen as: Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Act 1999: The act was framed in 1999 in order to protect the sustainability of
environment. It is administered by Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.
There is restriction on of hunting endangered species and if someone found guilty of the same
will be found punishable. The act focuses on protection of environment by reducing the emission
of harmful gases in air or managing the waste flowing in rivers or drainages will will harm the
water animals. Along with this measures are taken to reduce disposal of waste in air and water so
that species are least harmed. The guidelines given focuses on managing the waste and purifying
the same before it goes out of the organisational premises. The act is focused on aspects that
promotes ecologically sustainable development through the conservation and ecologically
sustainable use of natural resources (Agi and Nishant 2017). The steps for environment
protection is mentioned under this. Along with the external surroundings the respective act also
covers protection of biodiversity. In Biodiversity conservation aspects, flora and fauna is
considered. With time the act is modified and restructured looking to the needs and conditions of
the market and economy.
The measures which will not be harming the plants and animals in the event of
operations. Biodiversity conservation works for using resources in optimised manner so that
everyone can use them and no one is devoid of the same. To protect plants and animals,
guidelines have been given as to how waste will be disposed, what amount of resources will be
used, where will the resources be procured and others. The follow up of the guidelines can be
seen by conducting timely surveys and personal interviews which can be either open ended or
close ended. The interviews will collect data in primary method. Apart from this data can be
collected from secondary method by viewing publications of different organisations. The

measures taken will be working for improvement and development of the existing working
conditions. They will be complete and worked upon after some time of its implementation and
making the industrialists known about the act.
For easy implementation, it is required to make everyone go through rules and develop
thorough understanding of same. For the perspective of implementation there is a procedure
which is required to be adopted and can be seen as:
 Making people develop understanding of the act.
 Teaching the guidelines and process of follow up through programmes and strategies.
 Creating awareness among individuals so that guidelines are appropriately followed and
involvement in legal affairs and penalty is reduced or ignored.
In the event of any misunderstandings regarding the laws it becomes liable for the organisation
and its managers to know where are the lacking areas. For this the person associated with
informing the rules as appointed by the governing body is contacted and help is seek from him.
He supports and guides so that the guidelines and measures as given in the act are appropriately
followed. When a respective officer who is very well known about the acts is approaches and
taken help from there are less chances of deterioration of the act.
Organisational resilience can be seen as the skills of an organisation to prepare, react and
respond on the situations which result in bringing change and dynamism in the environment.
Organisational resilience can be seen as bringing changes in coming times in the environment so
that challenges can be successfully met with sustainability. The suggestions which can be made
in order to have organisational resilience in accordance of future environmental and
sustainability challenges can be studied as:
 Telling advantages which will be procured by institutions and economy when they will
be adhering to the acts framed.
 Spreading awareness amongst individuals so that they feel the need of laws and can
educate others too.
 Organising programmes which will make people know and relate to the issues which can
be faced if sustainability is not worked for.
When individuals get to know about the circumstances which they will be bound to suffer if
environment is not protected and are aware, they will do something or the other to reverse the
same. Individuals or the owners of organisations will be working for development in a better way

thus making their known ones and people in surroundings (Kroenke and Unutzer 2017) aware.
The people who are participating actively are needed to be rewarded and appreciated. When the
workers are appreciated and rewarded in front of others, they feel motivated and their morale is
increased which will result them in working more appropriately and with more focus. This will
also make other individuals motivated and dedicated to work and lead the mission. This will be a
reason that conservatism and measures to work with sustainability will flourish. This will be a
profitable situation for economy and governments.
CONCLUSION
It can be conclude that sustainability can be achieved only when every one works together,
hand in hand. For this every party associated with and working in the interest is required to
remain connected and work continuously.

REFERNCES:
Books and Journals:
Lennox, L., Maher, L. and Reed, J., 2018. Navigating the sustainability landscape: a systematic
review of sustainability approaches in healthcare. Implementation Science, 13(1), pp.1-
17.
Adams, R., Martin, S. and Boom, K., 2018. University culture and sustainability: Designing and
implementing an enabling framework. Journal of Cleaner Production, 171, pp.434-445.
Allen, C., Metternicht, G. and Wiedmann, T., 2018. Initial progress in implementing the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): a review of evidence from
countries. Sustainability Science, 13(5), pp.1453-1467.
Chams, N. and García-Blandón, J., 2019. On the importance of sustainable human resource
management for the adoption of sustainable development goals. Resources,
Conservation and Recycling, 141, pp.109-122.
Agi, M.A. and Nishant, R., 2017. Understanding influential factors on implementing green
supply chain management practices: An interpretive structural modelling
analysis. Journal of environmental management, 188, pp.351-363.
Kroenke, K. and Unutzer, J., 2017. Closing the false divide: sustainable approaches to
integrating mental health services into primary care. Journal of general internal
medicine, 32(4), pp.404-410.