Environmental Policy: Implementation and Continuous Improvement

This report outlines strategies for implementing an environmental sustainability policy within an organization. It covers key areas such as minimizing resource use through sustainable marketing, pollution prevention, energy conservation, and waste reduction. The report also addresses strategies for reducing toxic materials and hazardous chemicals by focusing on chemical substitution, reduction, safety reviews, green cleaners, and pollution prevention in fleet management. A communication plan is included to ensure stakeholder involvement, alongside procedures for policy implementation and methods for measuring outcomes. Furthermore, the report details key responsibilities, processes for collecting and analyzing feedback, and a continuous improvement plan based on Deming's PDCA cycle. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study resources including past papers and solved assignments for students.

Assessment Task - 2
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Contents
1. Purpose....................................................................................................................................4
2. Strategies for minimising resource use.............................................................................4
3. Strategies to reduce toxic material and hazardous chemical use...................................5
4. Communication plan for involving stakeholders in the implementation process.........6
5. Procedures for implementing policy initiatives...............................................................6
6. Measures or benchmark indicators to indentify the outcome achieved........................7
7. Key responsibilities.............................................................................................................7
8. Process to collect and analyse feedback once the policy has been implemented..........7
9. Plan for continuous improvement using Deming’s PDCA cycle...................................7
References.......................................................................................................................................8
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1. Purpose
The purpose is to combine sustainable development of the environmental sustainability policy is
to promote and develop environmental sound practises into the organisations operations
activities.
2. Strategies for minimising resource use
 Sustainable marketing strategies –
Earth friendly products are main path of development of sustainability.
Sustainable alternative are provided by developing services and products that
construct paradigms. Earth friendly products stakeholders that operates facilities
which include its customers, members, suppliers, dealers, media, trading
association, certified organisations and Earth friendly communities. the business
of the products should increase day by day and the practise of using these product
reduce environmental harm .
Encouraging customers, suppliers, dealers and stakeholders to consume
sustainability opportunities and concern about the products.
 Pollution prevention strategies –
Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Earth friendly products conserve natural resources
which are pollution prevention policies which reduces carbon footprints and air
pollution. it reduces direct and indirect emissions .
There are two types of Air pollution strategies –
1. Indoor air pollution strategies
Working environment should be well ventilated and chemical free spacious. And
reduce the emission and toxins impacts from the equipments uses in office.
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2. Outdoor air pollution strategies
Raw materials which are used by manufacturing products and transportation for
delivery of raw material.
It is harmful for services and staff of the travelling business which distribute
products.
Avoid business travel impacts, and to minimize the use maximize walking,
cycling and public transport.
 Energy consumption in production and offices –
Utilizing of 100% renewable energy to increase energy and climate neutral.
Installing of solar panels is way to utilize renewable energy sources. Products
maximizing energy efficiency in heating, cooling, lightening, information
technology, mechanical and water system. The goal of maximum energy use is to
reduce GHG emission.
Use low energy lights and office equipments. (Telesford & Strachan,2017)
 Water use –
Minimize use of water in production, re- use water and rain water should be used.
Use of efficient water equipments should be purchased with similar cost and
performances.
Provide training to employees to use less water and measure the reduce use of
water.
Establish the policy to aggressive water reduction measures.
 Waste Generation –
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Reduce the consumption of and re use of materials and products. When re use and
reduction both are not effective to commitments use of transformation resource of
waste.
Papers used in offices, glass, cans, bottles, toner cartridges, office equipments will
be recycled.
Expand recycle programmes, increase outside recycling by collecting recycle
materials (papers, cardboards, plastics, aluminium, etc.)
Recycling policy should be implemented and weight the trash generated.
Solid waste should be composing to bio degradable and food waste material. And
implement proper procedures.
3. Strategies to reduce toxic material and hazardous chemical use
 Chemical substitution – To find less toxic water or to disinfect effluent of waste
water develop protocol of treatment of waste water plant. Sodium hypochlorite
12%-15%. is used for liquid chlorine to eliminate human hazardous
environmental plan for safety and requirements .
 Chemical reductions – reduce exposure of hazardous products by employees and
establish new chemicals and products for health and safety purchase on
procurement process. Material sheet data should be developed on online for health
safety by maintenance department.
 Chemical safety reviews – chemical product potential impact and handling
techniques with safety specify and evaluate for new products. for employee safety
administrative procedure should be adopted to develop chemical products while
using on workplaces .
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 Green cleaners – green cleaning policies adopted for the procurement of green seal
products in sustainable cleaning. It is used for human health and impacts on environment.
(Boström,et.al, 2015)
 Pollution prevention in fleet –pollution prevention team maintaining significant work to
daily operations of incorporate prevention from pollution .
Benefits of employing life cycle management approaches
Labour energy materials – product designs –emissions to land, air, and water.
Labour energy materials – raw materials extraction and processing – emissions to
land, air and water.
Labour energy materials – product manufacture-emission to land, air and water.
Labour energy materials –packaging / distribution –emission to land, air and
water- recycle.
Labour energy materials –product use /consumption – emission to land, air and
water –reuse.
Labour energy material – end of life / disposal/new life –emission to land, air and
water – remanufacture.
4. Communication plan for involving stakeholders in the implementation process
 Choosing goals or objectives
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Build trust, improve product delivery, increase awareness, and educate customers,
Enhance employee team work.
 Define your audience
Staff, partners, customers, press and media, industry association.
 Know your key message
What are the issues to target audience?
What needs to understand?
Stakeholders asked frequently questions?
 Clarify what needs to be shared
Level 3 – company news, company goals and objective, product /services updates
contact details.
Level 2 –level 3 information plus, employee or partner handbook, how to handle
feedback.
Level 1 –progress towards goals and objectives. (Hillage ,et, .al ,2015)
5. Procedures for implementing policy initiatives
 Sustainability policy and commitments to educate staff.
 Development and expansion promotion for related sustainability research and
curriculum.
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 Sustainability related services and opportunities of learning of manufacturing
sites.
 Sustainability themed opportunities and events programmes should be
encouraged.
6. Measures or benchmark indicators to indentify the outcome achieved
 The importance of measurement and target setting .
 Deciding what to measure
 Measurement of your financial performance
 Measurement and your customers
 Measurement and your employees
 Measurement against other business – benchmarking
 Measurement in the manufacturing sector
 How to set useful target for your business.
7. Key responsibilities
Social and environmental responsibilities to require sustainability operations, valuable
growth and competitiveness contribute to work on sustainability issues. Efforts create
supports and value for customer purchasing behaviour.
8. Process to collect and analyse feedback once the policy has been implemented
 Long form-based surveys
 Short in – apps surveys
 Phone calls
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 Transactional mails
 Net promoter score survey
 Suggestions boards
 Identify product improvement areas
 Feed customers feedback into your product roadmap.( Carroll&
Carroll,2018)
9. Plan for continuous improvement using Deming’s PDCA cycle
A model for continues improvement.
Starting a new improvement project.
When implementing any change
 Plan a change and recognize an opportunity
 Carry out a small scale study and and test the change
 Analyse the result .
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References
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(2015). Workplace policy and management practices to improve the health of employees
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