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Assessment Task 1 BSBSUS201 Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices

Learner Instructions 1

(Environmental sustainability test)

Submission details

Students Name
Student ID
Group
Assessor’s Name
Assessment Date/s

The assessment task is due on the date specified by your assessor. Any variations to this arrangement must be approved in writing by your assessor.

Submit this document with any required evidence attached. See specifications below for details.

Performance objective

In this task, you need to demonstrate that you know some standards and legislation that relate to workplace sustainability. You will need to read and apply information from organisational policies and plans to ensure that workplace practices comply with standards and legislation.

Assessment description

This is a written test to assess your knowledge in these areas.

Procedure

1. Read the questions carefully and provide short, written answers in the space provided.

2. A copy of various environmental policies and procedures are provided in the appendices at the end of this test as a reference. Ask the assessor for help if any of the questions are unclear.

Specifications

You must submit:

· written answers to questions.

Your assessor will be looking for:

· each question to be answered completely

· knowledge of standards and legislation that relate to workplace sustainability.

Candidate: I declare that this work has been completed by me honestly and with integrity and that I have been assessed in a fair and flexible manner. I understand that the Institute’s Student Assessment, Reassessment and Repeating Units of Competency Guidelines apply to these assessment tasks.

Signature: ___________________

Date: ____/_____/_____

Questions

Question 1: Environmental and health and safety regulation

Laws and agreements are made at several levels of government. Some of them exist between countries, some exist inside countries, some relate to one state in the country only and some to local areas.

In the table below, write examples of different types of environmental regulation. Provide examples for at least four types of regulation. One example has been done for you:

Type of environmental regulation	An example of this kind
International agreements about the environment	Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992.
International agreements about the environment
Australian national law related to the environment
State law related to the environment
Your state agency that ensures compliance with the environmental law
An example of a local council environmental by-law that affects your home or workplace.

Question 2: Complying with new policy

Brad is the general manager for a small family courier company that operates in Melbourne’s CBD and inner suburbs. A new environmental policy has been introduced at Brad’s workplace. He reads through the new policy and notices that there are a lot of things that can be changed to comply with the new policy.

Some facts about the way the company currently runs:

· They have one bicycle courier who works two days a week and delivers in the CBD.

· They have three small cars (Toyota Corolla) that deliver in the CBD and inner suburbs. They were purchased in 1998, 2002 and 2004.

· They have eight vans that deliver in the CBD and inner suburbs.

· They wash their vehicles every week to keep them looking clean to give the company a professional reputation.

· All water used for washing vehicles comes from the town water supply.

· Brad doesn’t know what kind of soap is used to wash the vehicles.

· All employees drive their personal cars to work each day.

· Their central offices are located in an inner suburb of Melbourne.

Read through this policy (see Appendix 1) and answer the following questions.

a. Write four things that Brad can to do to comply with the new policy.

b. Where can Brad find out information about being compliant with current water use regulations?

Question 3: An incident

At Mary’s place of work, large drums containing dangerous chemicals had been stored on a pallet in the new car park extension. After a few days of heavy rain, Mary realised that a stream of water was flowing over the new car park extension into the creek below. During the bad weather, one of the drums had fallen off the pallet and was now leaking into the stream of water.

a. Write down the three things Mary needs to do to complete her ‘Duty of Care’ to the environment at her place of work according to the reporting procedure in Appendix 2.

b. Write down two things managers should do.

c. Write down two things she could do if nothing is done by management.

Question 4: Organisational plans

Jade is a manager of Australian Hardware’s Wollongong store. She regularly checks the store’s water meter to determine their rate of water use. During her regular checks, she notices that the store’s water use has gone up by 30% in the last month. This is 22% higher than last year’s monthly average.

a. Using the Wollongong Australian Hardware operational plan (Appendix 3), write down the operational objectives that relate to water use.

b. If this increase in water use continues, will the Wollongong store be able to meet the performance targets under the environmental operational objective? Why not?

Jade investigates the increase in water use and notices that when one of the employees is watering the plants in the middle of the day, he uses the store’s main town water supply.

c. What can Jade do as a manager to make sure the store decreases their town water use?

d. Wollongong’s water is supplied by Lake Avon and managed by Sydney water. Check the Sydney Water website. Is the employee complying with current water restrictions? If not, what rule is the employee breaking?

e. What should the employee be using instead of the main town water supply (according to the operational plan in Appendix 3)?

END TEST

Appendix 1: Environmental policy statement

We believe that businesses are responsible for achieving good environmental practice and operating in a sustainable manner.

We are committed to reducing our environmental impact and continually improving our environmental performance as an integral and fundamental part of our business strategy and operating methods.

It is our priority to encourage our customers, suppliers and all business associates to do the same. Not only is this sound business sense; it is also a matter of delivering on our duty of care towards future generations.

Our policy is to:

· support and comply with (or exceed) the requirements of current environmental legislation and codes of practice

· minimise our waste and then reuse or recycle as much of it as possible

· minimise energy and water usage in our buildings, vehicles and processes in order to minimise our consumption of natural resources, especially where they are non-renewable

· operate and maintain vehicles with due regard to environmental issues as far as reasonably practical and encourage the use of alternative means of transport and car sharing as appropriate

· apply the principles of continuous improvement in respect of air, water, noise and light pollution from our premises and reduce any impacts from our operations on the environment and local community

· as far as possible purchase products and services that do the least damage to the environment and encourage others to do the same

· assess the environmental impact of any new processes or products we intend to introduce in advance

· ensure that all employees understand our environmental policy and conform to the high standards it required

· address complaints about any breach of our environmental policy promptly and to the satisfaction of all concerned

· update our environmental policy annually in consultation with staff, associates and customers.

Appendix 2: Environmental duty of care and reporting incidents procedure

Duty of care

The state Environmental Protection Act was enacted by the state parliament as a piece of legislation to provide protection for the environment within that state. This Act includes a general ‘Duty of Care’ for the environment. This duty means that a person must not carry out (or fail to carry out) any activity that causes, or is likely to cause, environmental harm, unless the person takes all reasonable and practicable measures to prevent or minimise the harm’.

Breaches of this section have hefty penalties assigned for both individuals and management groups.

For further information, refer to the relevant environmental management guidelines for the state. These are usually kept on the website of the Environment Protection Authority in that state.

Reporting environmental incidents

Duty of notification

You have a duty to notify the administration department, as soon as you become aware of any occurrence/accident that may cause material or serious environmental harm. You should:

· immediately phone the office manager

· fill out the environmental incident report form

· send/give it to the office manager.

Breaches of environmental legislation

Upon your notification, the administration department will:

· verify the extent and degree of the environmental occurrence

· advise you of the findings

· If the occurrence breaches the Environment Protection Act in this state, the office manager will report the occurrence to the state Environmental Protection Agency.

Failure to notify the administering authorities may attract penalties of up to $7,500 under the relevant Environmental Protection Act.

Notification to the Environmental Protection Agency The administration department shall advise the Environmental Protection Agency (EP Agency) in writing of any activity that is in breach of any environmental legislation to which the business is liable.

Corrective actions

· If the breach relates to environmental harm, the activity, if it continues to harm or has potential to continue the harm, should be stopped immediately.

· If the breach is caused by an accident, the activity (upon agreement by the EP Agency) may continue to operate but may be subject to conditions enforced by the EP to minimise impacts on the environment.

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Appendix 3: Australian Hardware Operational Plan for social and environmental responsibility – Wollongong store

Goals

Establish reputation of Australian Hardware as socially and environmentally responsible company

Operational objectives

Performance measures (KPIs)

Targets

Environmental/social objectives (national and Wollongong store):

source and use ethically produced and environmentally sustainable products

operate environmentally sustainable business

reduce water consumption

reduce energy consumption.

Environmental/social KPIs for Wollongong store:

supplier reliability rating

score on spot-check checklist

reduce water usage by 10% per year

reduce power usage by 7% per year.

Sales training objectives (national and Wollongong store):

staff are trained to competently perform all tasks

staff are happy and motivated in their work.

Sales training KPIs for Wollongong store:

individual employee balanced scorecard ratings (These include KPIs for sustainability practices )

100% staff trained

two performance management sessions per year per staff including environmental KPIs.

Action plan

Establish reputation of Australian Hardware as socially and environmentally responsible
Activity/strategy	Approved resources	Responsibility	Timelines
Conduct spot checks on environmental practices at stores.	N/A – national budget	All managerial staff/line managers with responsibility for training and performance management	Twice weekly
Sustainability practices: use of rainwater tanks to collect water from large roofs and grey water usage. Employees must not use town water to water plants. use of skylights use of solar arrays on roof.	N/A – national budget	Store General Manager	Fourth quarter 2013
Complete environmental training: environmental training part of induction environmental targets count towards performance targets for each employee.	N/A – national budget	All managerial staff/line managers with responsibility for training and performance management	On each induction; performance management sessions for each employee held twice annually
Conduct survey of local market environmental concerns via internet and social media: survey conducted as part of market and marketing research undertaken by Action Marketing in course of normal market research local customer complaints data analysed for environmental concerns.	N/A – national budget	Action Marketing	Quarterly 2013

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