Elements and Performance Criteria
- Investigate social sustainability issues and practices
- Review information about current industry practice in relation to social sustainability issues that may affect the work area.
- Identify legislative/regulatory requirements that relate to social sustainability issues and how they apply to the work area.
- Identify voluntary codes and standards that relate to social sustainability issues.
- Collect information on systems, procedures and work practices that have social sustainability implications.
- Identify how the organisation’s stated values, strategies and goals relate to social sustainability.
- Determine the relevance of the social sustainability issues and practices to the work area or work group.
- Engage stakeholders to identify social sustainability improvements
- Identify stakeholders and their interest in social sustainability in the work area or work group.
- Facilitate activities to review current systems, procedures and work practices, and identify areas for improvement.
- Determine changes that are likely to achieve desired improvements.
- Evaluate the feasibility, benefits and costs of making the changes.
- Prioritise changes for action.
- Report suggestions for improvements that are beyond own area of responsibility to appropriate people.
- Implement/update changes
- Source techniques/tools to assist in implementing the priority changes.
- Plan for budget, personnel, other resources and approvals that will be required.
- Seek approval to make changes, as needed.
- Allocate tasks and responsibilities to team or work group members.
- Implement/update the approved changes.
- Monitor progress and implement strategies to address barriers and/or resistance to changes.
- Analyse and interpret social sustainability data
- Promote engagement with social sustainability
- Encourage equitable participation from all stakeholders.
- Use behaviours and work practices that support social sustainability in own work and communications.
- Encourage proper application of procedures that support engagement.
- Use change management strategies to promote change.
- Present accurate information targeted to stakeholder interests/needs.
- Identify achievements and promote them throughout the organisation.