Assessment 1 – Assignment (Environmental management plan) Develop an Environmental Management Plan Your Environmental Management Plan needs to include the following headings and should address all...

Assessment 1 – Assignment (Environmental management plan) Develop an Environmental Management Plan Your Environmental Management Plan needs to include the following headings and should address all points listed under each heading: Step1: Create a ‘Green Team‘ This needs to include a discussion on how you will select your environmental committee in your organisation and should address the following aspects: • Desirable backgrounds of committee members (state reasons) • Individual roles in your committee • Communication channels • Provisions to meet legislative requirements (refer to the provided links in your text) • Provisions for fostering team understanding and including all employees in environmental processes. Step 2: Identify current consumption In this part you need to discuss how you will ascertain how much water, electricity and gas your organisation is currently consuming and how much waste is being generated. Aspects to be covered include: • Which areas do need to be monitored • How will you do this – provide suggestions for audits in each area • Which techniques will you apply to identify current consumption and the amount of waste being generated • Recycling provisions for all departments within your organisation • Breaches or possible breaches within the organisation and how you would determine these. Step 3: Compare to Best Practices Provide general benchmarks which you need to research as relevant to your specific industry sector. Step 4: Make Green Changes This part deals with the efficiency of resources relating to the consumption of water, energy, gas and the amounts of waste generated. You will need to provide three examples for each category, how water, gas, electricity and waste can be greatly reduced including Actions like do’s and don’ts Building and Renovation Gardens and Landscaping Changes to appliances Purchasing factors Employee awareness Education of guests Step 5: Monitor and Improve Once you have determined all factors of an Environmental Management Plan, made changes and implemented all procedures you will need to monitor whether the conservation practices are productive. Explain the requirements to do this effectively and provide a range of examples which will cover all areas including water, energy, gas and waste. You will need to provide details which address: • Problems • Issues • Recommended Actions • Revision Dates • Person(s) responsible BSBSUS201 Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices RTO No: 21595 | CRICOS Code: 02634E BSBSUS201 Assessment 1 Page 4 of 5 ©Copyright Academia International 2019 Version 3 Approved by: B. Wade Marking Guide Assignment (Environmental Management Plan Not Attempted Not Satisfactory Satisfactory Excellent Comments 0 1 2 3 BSBSUS201 Participate in Environmentally Sustainable Work Practices Suggests realistic roles of individual team members which would contribute to a team that can meet its requirements and tasks Provides acceptable suggestion(s) for communication within the ‘Green Team’ to ensure a team can meet its objectives Provides sources which can be accessed to gain information of legislative requirements correctly Provides clear suggestions of relevant areas in an organisation which should be monitored for the consumption of energy and water, and generating waste Provides realistic suggestions for auditing consumption of energy and water and generating waste. Provides clear suggestions of techniques to measure energy and water consumption and how to measure generation of waste. Provides sound suggestions for investigating recycling practices in an organisation Suggests realistic breaches and possible breaches and how these could be determined Provides suggestions for benchmarks/industry standards for the consumption of energy, water and waste generation and suggests where these can be accessed Provides examples of general good practices to conserve energy, water and reduce waste/incl. recycling practices Suggests realistic energy conservation methods when building and renovating Suggest examples to conserve water/energy relating to gardens and landscaping Suggest examples which address energy efficiency issues with appliances Suggest examples how energy conservation is related to purchasing Suggest examples to increase employee awareness of the need to save energy, water, reduce waste and foster good practice Suggest examples to increase guest awareness of the need to save energy, water, reduce waste and foster good practice Provides clear suggestions for a monitoring plan which includes provisions for problems and issues Provides clear suggestions for a monitoring plan which includes provisions for recommended action, revision dates and person(s) responsible Total Marks out of 54