Developing & Implementing a Sustainability Policy: Sydney Opera House

This report outlines the Sydney Opera House's sustainability policy, vision, mission, and goals, emphasizing environmental and social responsibility. It details corporate policies for knowledge management and environmental sustainability, including a three-year implementation plan focused on reducing energy use and engaging stakeholders. The plan includes specific actions, targets, timelines, and accountabilities for electricity and gas reduction, staff engagement, and audience inspiration. Monitoring strategies involve data collection on energy consumption and employee engagement. The report also addresses waste reduction in the cafe, staff responsibilities for sustainability, and a presentation questionnaire to assess understanding of the policy. The aim is to make the Opera House a benchmark for modern art in Australia while minimizing environmental impact and fostering community involvement. The report concludes with references to support the strategies and policies discussed.

Develop Policy

ABOUT ORGANISATION
 Sydney opera house is the multi venue art centre in the Sydney.
It is the world famous and distinctive buildings.
 They have formally opened on 20th October 1973 and being
designed by the architect Jørn Utzon. They have the building
that change the image of entire country.
 They have fusing both modernist and ancient influences which
is situated at the site sacred to the Gadigal people for thousands
of years.
 Their structural elegance have made them one of the symbol
for twentieth century architecture. .

CONTD..
Vision statement
To be most outstanding and eminent in performing their art centre in the
globe (Price and Tucker, 2011).
Mission
 Their mission is to belong with everyone where they provide barrier
free access, creating the site and building and the experience they offer
are access by every people.
 To be the best host in welcoming and inspiring the visitor with the help
of outstanding experience

CONTD..
Goal:
 Innovation in engaging the individual and
community.
 Having the best Artistic experience
Knowing the different competitors
business (Barr, 2012).
 To access their whole target market

CONTD..
Policies
 To be the most social and environmental sustainable to maintain the
brand name of the Opera House status as the modern Art of Australia.
 To have impact on the larger environmental outcome in making contract
the different stakeholders (LAMBERT and Jiang, 2010).
 To involve employees, community ans their partners in the
sustainability problems and help them to take effective action
collectively as well as individually.

CONTD..
Different corporate polices made by the Sydney opera house
 To be the corporate memory, ensure proper knowledge and information
are collected and used to support the different daily activities and
business strategies with maintaining state, national and international
heritage values (Fisher and Svendsen, 2012).
 All the information and records are managed according to the State
Records Act 1998 and other laws, standards, policies and other needs
issued by NSW government.

CONTD..
Environment sustainability policy
 To set, deliver and communicate environmental sustainability goals and
execute the plan in every three years.
 Maintain clear accountabilities (Price and Tucker, 2011).
 Access and monitor the performance of employees and employer again
the different standard, target and benchmarks.

SUSTAINABILITY
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Implementation plan
Objective • Plan
Reduce Energy use • Reduce electricity use by 2% per annum
• Reduce gas use by 4% per annum
Engage and Inspire • Engage staff in supporting sustainability targets
• Present information and train employees
• Inspire audience to consider sustainability on
everyday choice

CONTD..
Action required Associated target Resources Timeline Accountability
Reduce electricity use
by 2% per annum
The target will be
workers of the
organisation who is
using the electricity as
resource to produce
finished goods.
New technology and
effective skills of
employees
2 years
Employees will be
accountable to reduce
use of electricity
Reduce gas use by 4%
per annum
Same as the above the
workers will be
associated target
Innovative techniques
should be used by
workers
2 years
Workers will be
accountable to reduce
gas use

CONTD..
Engage staff in
supporting
sustainability targets
Employer will be the
target to engage
employee in
maintaining
sustainability
Proper communication
so conference hall will
be required to engage
staff
3 months
Employer will be
accountable for engage
employee to manage
sustainability
Present information and
train employees
Supervisor and top
level management
Professional will be
required to train
employees
4 months
Supervisor will be
accountable to train
employees
Inspire audience to
consider sustainability
on everyday choice
Whole staff of
organisation
Strategies to inspire
audience such as
advertisement
7 months
Members of
organisation

MONITORING STRATEGIES
Description Person responsible Performance
indicator
Baseline Target Data collection
Reduce electricity
use by 2% per
annum
Employees will be
responsible to
reduce use of
electricity
They are now able
to reduce
electricity use by
2%
Last year the
organisation was
able to reduce
electricity use by
1%
Workers It is collected by
analysing the
financial data of
organisation
Reduce gas use by
4% per annum
Workers will be
responsible to
reduce gas use
They are now able
to reduce gas use
by 4%
Last year the
company was able
to reduce gas use
by 3%
Employees Data is gathered by
proper evaluating
the expenses made
on gas use

CONTD…
Engage staff in
supporting
sustainability targets
Employer will be
responsible for
engage employee to
manage
sustainability
All employees are
not motivated to
engage in
maintaining
sustainability
All the staff was
able to engage in
maintaining
sustainability
Employers Data is collected to
surveying
employees
Present information
and train employees
Supervisor will be
responsible to train
employees
Effective training
programs are now
organised by the
supervisor
Organisation was
not providing
training programs
Supervisor Data is gathered by
employees through
personal interview
Inspire audience to
consider
sustainability on
everyday choice
Members of
organisation
Target market are
now inspired to
maintain
sustainability
All the target market
was not using their
product to maintain
sustainability
Whole organisation Survey made on the
target market and
question related to
the organisation
sustainability policy