Q 24: Explain why it is a good idea to integrate environmental procedures and practices with pre-existing organisation procedures and practices.
Implementing environmental procedures helps assist employees with workplace procedures. It is important to the organisation as it helps to meet its targets. Easing into the new procedures is important as employees might not be accepting to drastic immediate change and also only updating the areas that are wasting resources is needed as it may be a waste of resources to update everything.

Q 25: What needs to be done when existing procedures or work practices are changed or new procedures and work practices are introduced?
When changing workplace procedures it’s important that every member of staff knows what is going to change and to debrief it’s good to have a meeting and explain what is going to happen.  Expressing the changes in emails and manuals on how to conduct work will ensure that everyone remembers what they’re meant to be doing.





Q 26: -Get Noticed Advertising
You are the administrative supervisor at Get Noticed Advertising. A new green purchasing policy has to be implemented in the next month. The purchasing officer Essie has been with the organisation for 10 years and does not see the value in the purchasing policy and refuses to comply.
How would you manage the situation? How would you convince her of the relevance of the policy? Remember that it is crucial that the organisation achieves the targets of the purchasing policy.
I’d explain to Essie what her contribution would mean to the advertising company, that it would reduce costs. By avoiding the use of materials unnecessarily, reducing the amount of material consumption, reusing resources and recycling resources It would help attract new customers to the advertising company by promoting its environmentally friendly business model.

Q27:   Identify the four steps of the continuous improvement cycle.
The four steps in the improvement cycle are:
Plan – Establish the goals and actions necessary to implement the organisational plan and its related performance improvement
Do – implement your planned processes and allocate the appropriate resources
Check – Monitor and measure and report on the effectiveness of your results and processes
Act – incorporate the ideas for improvement into your next plan and maximise areas where there have been success.

Q28:  Identify five things an organisation can do to improve the performance of its employees. Explain what each one means.
Workforce planning – Making sure you have the right skills to carry out your sustainability activities and achieve  your goals. This is analysing the current job roles and changing them , making new ones or removing old ones.

Retention Strategies – This is to minimise the amount of staff that leave as the cost of advertising, interviewing and training new staff is high. Strategies include cutting out workplace bullying and discrimination or establishing a culture of collaboration and providing staff with development opportunities.

Workplace culture – Having a workplace that respects the different views and cultures of the employees and that encourages their participation in the organisation will help social sustainability. Having these values align to your sustainability goals helps participation.

Leadership – Being a manager/business owner you have the most influence as the role model so giving constructive feedback based on the work rather than the person and supplying the support to get it right will help improve the sustainability of a workplace.  Using suggestions help show how you have used their input.

Operational Procedures – This is about updating the areas that the business is falling short, maybe new requirements for purchasing materials or contacting suppliers.  You might focus more on OHS so that the risks are reduced and the associated costs. Even moving equipment to a better location to improve efficiency can fall under this.









Q29: Identify 5 things a business could do to reduce it energy consumption.
Turning off computer monitors, printers, copiers and lights can help save energy.
Installing timers or programmable thermostats can that prevent people from tampering with the temperature or even just closing the blinds for shade angst the hot sun or closing doors to keep in the air conditioning.
Keeping food in as little fridges as possible can help maximise efficiency. You could even implement an automatic door closer to make sure that it’s closed.
Turn off lights when they’re not being used and substitute light globes with more power effective ones.
Investing in a small solar panel to run emergency lights could save money in the long run.