Sustainability Policy Development for Tiny Opera Company

This report outlines the development of a sustainability policy and related procedures for 'Tiny Opera', a company providing entertainment experiences. It begins by exploring three potential policy options: water sustainability, sustainable design, and solar panel implementation. Following a consultation, the decision was made to focus on energy sustainability through the use of solar panels. The report details the company's current environmental management practices and proposes a draft sustainability policy centered on solar panel usage, highlighting the environmental and economic benefits. A subsequent consultation revealed challenges related to government approvals and funding. The report concludes by suggesting a short-term loan as a solution and emphasizes the importance of promoting awareness of the sustainability policy among stakeholders to maximize its impact, aligning with environmental legislation like the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act and Regulations.

Develop Workplace
Policy and Procedures
for Sustainability

Table of Contents
Develop three policy options and write summaries of each option. ..........................................3
Meet with the business manager (your trainer) to discuss on the policy options and decide on
the preferred option.....................................................................................................................4
Draft a sustainability policy for the company ‘Tiny Opera’, based on your research, the
company information provided and feedback from the consultation session.............................4
Meet with the business manager (your trainer) to discuss on the policy developed...................5
Update the draft policy based on the feedback received from the business manager (your
trainer).........................................................................................................................................6
Write a report on sustainability policy........................................................................................6
REFERENCES:...............................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals.....................................................................................................................8

Develop three policy options and write summaries of each option.
Sustainable policies are the strategy that are used by the organizations and the businesses
which helps them achieving the goals and the targets of the company without harming the
environment (Kumar and Anbanandam, 2019). Tiny opera can adapt several sustainable policies
in the business in order to save the environment that are as follows:
Water
Sustainability
Tiny opera have the option to use water sustainability policy. This means to
fulfil the need and demand of water without harming the future needs of
water. In this company can make several method to conserve water and can
also do the water management through which they can minimise the
wastage of water in the company. Tiny opera is providing entertainment
experience to their customers and for that large number of people visit their
theatres, so it is necessary for the management to save the water as
sometimes people uses more water than required and also waste the water.
Sustainable
Design
This sustainable can also be used by the Tiny opera company. This means
that reducing all those practices through which an environment is getting
affected. This management is very important in the businesses in order to
do the development without harming the environment (Hussain and et.al.,
2018). Tiny opera is dealing in providing the entertainment experience to
their customers by giving the facility of theatre. For that they uses of lots of
paper to sell tickets . This sustainable policy can be used by the company as
they can shift to online method for selling the tickets which helps them in
saving the environment.
Use of solar
panels
This can comes out to be the most effective sustainable policy for the
company. Company uses so much electricity and energy in running their
operations. It is very important for the company to use the effective ways
through which they can minimise the use of electricity and power in the
company. Company can use one of the most effective method that is solar
panel in the company that will helps them to save the environment from the
greenhouse gas and also helps to save the natural resources. Solar plates can

be installed in the company that uses the converts the energy of sun into
electricity. This will helps the company to reduce the pollution from the
environment and company can achieve its target in a sustainable way.
Meet with the business manager (your trainer) to discuss on the policy options and decide on the
preferred option.
Consultation date 12/05/22
Consultation time 10:00:00
Location Meeting room
Participants
After describing all the possible sustainable policies, trainer has concluded that it is very
important for the company to adapt an sustainable policy in the company that helps to save the
environment as well as also helps in increasing the brand image in the eyes of their customers.
Trainer of the company have decided that the best sustainable policy for the company will be
the effective use of energy in the company (Kumar and Alok, 2020). This will helps the
company to save the environment by using solar panels. Solar plates are the most appropriate
approach to make development as this is a pollution free method to produce electricity.
Draft a sustainability policy for the company ‘Tiny Opera’, based on your research, the company
information provided and feedback from the consultation session.
Tiny opera is currently doing various practices in order to save the environment by doing
sustainable development in the company. Current sustainable policy of the company have been
described below:
Environmental management
Tiny Opera has a commitment to minimising environmental impact by using of the several
factors that are as :
 Tiny opera company have set several goals and objectives through which they ensures
that the regular improvement in the company. They focuses on to decrease the excess

use of resources that affects the environment.
 They encourage the management to do the practices that helps in preventing the
pollution and reducing the waste.
 They continuously focusing on to decrease the environmental impacts and ensures that
the sustainability should be promoted in the company by giving responsibilities to each
department of the company.
Draft sustainability policy
Use of solar panels
For Tiny opera, the most effective sustainable policy comes out to be the solar panels. Company
uses so much energy and electricity in running their operations in the company. This causes lots
of affects on the environment by increasing of the pollution (Liao, 2018). Uses of solar plates
helps the company to save the environment from using the natural resources that are present in
the environment. There are several benefits of the solar panel that are discussed below:
 This helps the company to use minimum natural resources as solar plates directly
generates electricity from sun.
 Solar plates are the effective ways to generate electricity because the company will able
to save the lots of water which is a very important element of the nature.
 Solar panels also helps the company to build a healthy environment as it does not affects
the quality of the air and does not produce dangerous gaseous like methane and carbon
dioxide in the air.
Meet with the business manager (your trainer) to discuss on the policy developed.
Meeting date 20/05/22
Meeting time 12:00:00
Location Meeting room
Participants
After explaining the chosen sustainable policy for the company, trainer of the company has
evaluated that there are some restrictions in setting up of the solar panels in the company

(Macke and Genari, 2019). For the installation of the solar plates, there is a need of the
government approval and without the approval it cannot be installed. This is one of the major
barrier that can come in the way as they need the answer that why you want to install the solar
panels at your place. There will be so much paper work included in order to get the permission
for installation of the solar plates.
Trainer of the company have analysed that there is a major drawback and limitation of this
policy is that it requires lots of funds and resources to be installed in the company. This points
have to be considered first but now it has been come out as a challenge for the company.
Company have not enough resources to meet the expense of the solar plates (Das, Rangarajan
and Dutta, 2020). Company will need a lots of funds in order to install the solar plates in the
company.
Update the draft policy based on the feedback received from the business manager (your trainer).
There is a solution for this problem as the company can take a short-term loan which can
meet the cost of the solar panels in the company. Company can take a loan from the bank and in
return they have to pay a specific interest. This the most appropriate way for raising a fund
because the banks will provide huge amount at a very nominal interest rate.
Write a report on sustainability policy.
Sustainability Report
Legislation
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act and Regulations
This act has been applied on the company to some extent as this act focuses on to make
the effective plan in regards to save the environment. This act was passed in 1979 and mainly
includes that the development should be done before considering the impact on the environment.
Tiny opera is also following this act in their company as their main aim is to do the development
without harming the nature (Naciti, 2019). They use the resources effectively through which the
future generation does not have to compromise in order to fulfil their needs and demands.
Sustainability policy
I have developed this policy after consulting with my manager of the company. There
were so many sustainable policies are present, but solar panels comes out to be the most effective

policy. I have analysed the all aspects of our business and after that I have decided that this is the
most appropriate policy that can helps the business to promote sustainability. This facilitates the
company to save the environment from the various dangerous gaseous that affects the quality of
the air. It also helps the company to save lots of cost as solar plates directly converts the energy
of the sun into electricity.
Strategies for promoting awareness of sustainability policy
 It can be promoted by telling about the advantages of this policies and how this policy
promotes the sustainability. This helps in building the brand image in the market.
 Sustainable policy can be promoted by conducting several meetings with all the
employees of the company in order to explain the goal of the policy.
Strategies to maximise the impact of the policy
 Solar panels are the most effective ways to sustain the environment. This policy can be
explained to each and every stakeholders of the company (Darko and Chan, 2018).
Impact of the policy can be increased by distributing responsibilities in regards to save
the environment.
 This policy can be promoted by giving the training to the employees through which they
can practice and apply this strategy in the company.

REFERENCES:
Books and Journals
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perspective. Journal of Asia Business Studies.
Hussain, M and et.al., 2018. Exploration of social sustainability in healthcare supply chain.
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Kumar, A. and Anbanandam, R., 2019. Development of social sustainability index for freight
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Kumar, R.R. and Alok, K., 2020. Adoption of electric vehicle: A literature review and prospects
for sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production, 253, p.119911.
Liao, Z., 2018. Environmental policy instruments, environmental innovation and the reputation
of enterprises. Journal of Cleaner Production, 171, pp.1111-1117.
Macke, J. and Genari, D., 2019. Systematic literature review on sustainable human resource
management. Journal of cleaner production, 208, pp.806-815.
Naciti, V., 2019. Corporate governance and board of directors: The effect of a board composition
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