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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Monitor external environment for sustainability related factors
  2. Develop alternative responses to external factors
  3. Communicate with relevant stakeholders
  4. Prepare response for factor or factors
  5. Communicate required responses

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Sustainability incorporates all of

survival of the ecology/physical environment (to manage the impact of the business to ensure the survival of the physical environment)

economic viability (efficiency, cost and waste reduction and competitiveness to support survival of the business)

social sustainability (to manage the impact of the business to ensure its continued survival within the community and the survival of the community).

Factors external to the organisation include one or more of

government (at any level) legislation or regulation

government (at any level) direct action programs or similar

government (at any level) incentives or similar

customer expectations

community expectations

market trends

competitor actions

other factors.

Sustainability issues of particular relevance include one or more of

particular sensitivities of the local ecology (e.g. endangered species, sensitive local flora/fauna, material scarcity, water availability)

general ecology issues and regulations (e.g. climate change and carbon footprint, pollution control measures)

particular local social issues (e.g. distortions to the housing market, disruption to local lifestyles)

general social issues (e.g. corporate citizenship, use or/deterioration to infrastructure)

particular local economic issues (e.g. cost of capital, profit margins, competition)

general economic issues (e.g. state of the economy, stage of the business cycle).

Significance of impact includes one or more of

permanent loss or degradation

loss or degradation which inhibits use by the following generation

temporary degradation requiring remediation

temporary degradation which is self-remediating

speed of change/degradation/loss.

Sustainability impacts which cannot be prevented require mitigation and amelioration techniques which include one or more of

capture and storage (e.g. scrubbing) and similar ‘end of pipe’ solutions

dilution/dispersion and similar techniques which reduce concentration but not amount

other approaches which meet the sustainability requirements.

Knowledge Evidence

Must provide evidence that demonstrates sufficient knowledge to interact with relevant personnel and be able to identify and respond to external sustainability factors including knowledge of:

process and changes which occur at each step in selected value chain

principles of sustainability

current actual and possible sources of external sustainability factors relevant to the organisation

possible responses for improving sustainability

root cause analysis

hierarchy of hazard control and its application to sustainability hazards

relevant legislation, regulation and protocols, government incentives and other initiatives

risk analysis and its application to sustainability risks.