Elements and Performance Criteria
- Investigate current practices in relation to resource usage
- Identify environmental regulations applying to the enterprise
- Analyse procedures for assessing compliance with environmental/sustainability regulations
- Collect information on environmental and resource efficiency systems and procedures, and provide to the work group where appropriate
- Collect, analyse and organise information from a range of sources to provide information/advice and tools/resources for improvement opportunities
- Measure and document current resource usage of members of the work group
- Analyse and document current purchasing strategies
- Analyse current work processes to access information and data to assist in identifying areas for improvement
- Set targets for improvements
- Implement performance improvement strategies
- Source and use appropriate techniques and tools to assist in achieving efficiency targets
- Apply continuous improvement strategies to own work area of responsibility, including ideas and possible solutions to communicate to the work group and management
- Implement and integrate environmental and resource efficiency improvement plans for own work group with other operational activities
- Supervise and support team members to identify possible areas for improved practices and resource efficiency in work area
- Seek suggestions and ideas about environmental and resource efficiency management from stakeholders and act upon where appropriate
- Implement costing strategies to fully utilise environmental assets
- Monitor performance
- Use and/or develop evaluation and monitoring, tools and technology
- Document and communicate outcomes to report on efficiency targets to key personnel and stakeholders
- Evaluate strategies and improvement plans
- Set new efficiency targets, and investigate and apply new tools and strategies
- Promote successful strategies and reward participants where possible