Workplace Policy And Procedures For Sustainability

Discussion

This report highlights the workplace policy and procedures for sustainability based on the three options for the Tiny Opera Company. The scope of the policy is also discussed in this report along with the Tiny opera company commitment to the sustainability policy. Apart from Tiny Opera Company, the other company that has been discussed in this report is Sydney Opera House.

This report contains three assessments in its discussion part. The first assessment deals with the development of the sustainability policy of the Tiny Opera house along with an interim report. The second assessment contains the Sydney Opera house’s sustainability implementation plan and marketing strategy in the provided templates. The  Assessment 3 section of the discussion contains chart of the data from the assessment 2 as well as provides review and recommendation for the Sydney Opera house sustainability policies (Sanchez, Hampson & Mohamed, 2016).    

Three Options For The Direction And Focus Of The Policy

The three options for the direction and focus of the sustainability policies are as follows:

• Environmental policies: The main purpose of these polices is to identify and reduce the wastes generating from the Tiny Opera Company location. These environmental policies of the Company will help it to reduce the usage of hazardous chemicals and toxic materials as well as minimize and effectively use the available resources. These policies will work best by integrating the various environmental considerations into the decision making process of the company.
• Economical policies: The intention of these policies is to increase the whole economic growth of the Company including all its tickets and sales prices by effectively employing and investing using the proper monetary and fiscal tools. These policies will help the company to effectively balance between its social and economic investments to get better development outcomes for sustainability (Lazar, 2014).
• Cultural policies: Cultural policy plays an important role in majority of the development goals of sustainability including focus on sustainable consumption of resources, patterns of production and quality education (Lorek & Spangenberg, 2014). With the help of this policy, the visitors are encouraged to opt for sustainable methods and the principles of the management.  

The sustainability policy for the Company is centralised around the environmental policies to ensure that the impact of the hazardous chemicals on the company is minimized (Epstein & Buhovac, 2014). The Company also requires certain procedures for safe work that meets the standards   of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 to prevent the employees from getting injured accidently while engaged in hazardous works.

The scope of this policy in the company is to ensure that sustainable business practices are implemented that will help the company to minimize the accidents and also increase the benefits including that on the environment. As the plan is to also decrease the usage of the resources and reduce the use of the toxic material and chemicals, Tiny opera company will act in accordance of the various state, local and federal laws. These laws includes Environment Protection Act 1970, Clean Energy Act 2011, Water and Resource Management Amendment Regulations 2012 and National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (Roberts & Craig, 2014).

Nic Tan, the Business Manager of the Company reviews all the operations and process of the company and he observes that the Company’s resource usage is not in alignment with the sustainable practices. The company has been staging performances since 1970s, thus its business operations now focuses on the health communities as well as smart business. With this in mind, the company has integrated new and effective sustainable practices including automatic programming to reverse cycle air conditioners inside the office by switching off at the mentioned time daily (Dong, 2012).  Apart from this, the company has also sorted the recyclable papers from the rubbish and also using the low VOC paints in order to protect the health of the employees and provide better safety to them (Schieweck & Bock, 2015).

Assessment 1

There are various barriers to the company’s sustainability policies including economic, financial and social barriers as well as poor evaluation and monitoring system. The company in order to implement the sustainability policies needs more finance. The social challenges, that the company has to face in order to achieve sustainable development is the increased population that is paired with consumption level that is unsustainable. The company needs to make the population aware of the company’s sustainable development (Ocetkiewicz, Tomaszewska & Mróz, 2017). The company lacks in specific targets and this effects the progress made by the decision makers.    

First of all, the company needs to understand the sustainability trends and then develop methods to address and solve the issues. Next, the vision of the company’s sustainability goal is developed by focussing on the association of the initiatives of corporate social responsibilities to overcome all the issues to be face in the coming future. Lastly, the company’s educational programs and providing training to its employees helps the company to implement the sustainability policies successfully (Kopnina & Meijers, 2014).   

The strategies to promote the awareness of the sustainability policies are as follows:

• Conducting meeting with the senior management and the CEO of the company annually (Walls & Berrone, 2017)
• Printing the Tiny Opera Company posters that includes all its sustainability goals
• Educating and informing all its employees with the latest sustainability reports of the company via emails.
• Creating a monthly bulletin board that contains all the sustainability information (Van Brakel, & Potgieter, 2014).

In order to maximize the impact of the sustainability policy, the company needs to collaborate itself with the whole industry as well as properly and efficiently work with all its suppliers, vendors and customers. The company should and must engage all its stakeholders in the upcoming implementation plans and the business manager should from time to time conduct proper review of the company’s sustainability policies (Colleoni, 2013).   

Implementation Plan

Objectives

1. Reduction in the use of toxic and harmful materials 2. To provide proper training to the employees  in English and on sustainability policies 3. To reduce the usage of water and energy consumption by 2 % yearly 4. Maintain a record of the usage of the resources on monthly basis. 5. Educate and make the audience understand that sustainability is an important factor 6. Recycling and reduction in the gas usage by 4% yearly 7. Reduction in the landfill waste

Action Required	Associated target	Resources	Timeline	Accountability
1. Regularly cleaning the waste storeroom 2. Separating and disposing the wastes properly. 3. Making an agreement with the retailer of the paints to take back along with them the unused paints	Reduction in the use of toxic and harmful materials	Human resources	2 months	1. Maintenance department of the building 2. The janitors
1. Ensuring that the employees do work by volunteering 2. Inform them of the benefits of the sustainability 3. Provide proper on-premise training to the employees	To provide proper training to the employees on sustainability policies	Human resources	5 months to 1 year	Administrative employees
1. Developing energy efficient policies including heaters 2. Reducing the lights in the passages and corridors that are over-lit 3. using automatic water taps 4. Periodically insulating all the water pipes	To reduce the usage of water and energy consumption by 2% yearly	1. Human resources 2. Plumbing tools	1. 2 months 2.  4 months	1. Administrative section 2. Building maintenance employees 3. Electricians and plumbers
Developing information strategy and taking help of relevant software to store the information of the used resources by every department	Maintain a record of the usage of the resources on monthly basis.	1. Employees from the Technical team 2. IT tools and software	9 months	1. Technical staffs including the outsourced team 2. Administrative and Building maintenance staffs
1. Proper usage of the poster with sustainability information at the theatre 2. Informing the audience before the show by speeches	Educate and make the audience understand that sustainability is an important factor	1. Human Resources 2. Posters 3. Training materials	1 year	1. Administrative and building maintenance employees 2. Café and Bar staff
1. Providing the individual production houses with the recyclable wastes 2. Coming up with new ideas and plans on how to make proper use of the unusable products 3. Using Less fuel 4. Making use of solar power	Recycling and reduction in the gas usage by 4% yearly	Solar Panels	3 months	Administrative employees
1. Reducing the food wastes in the cafes and bars 2. Using more products that are recyclable	Reduction in the landfill waste	1. Human Resources 2. Suppliers of recyclable products	2 months	1. Cafeteria and bar staff 2. Retailers

Description of objective/outcome/ activity/task	Person responsible	Metric/key performance indicator	Baseline (previous year’s performance)	Target	Data collection methods
1. Regularly cleaning the waste storeroom 2. Separating and disposing the wastes properly. 3. Making an agreement with the retailer of the paints to take back along with them the unused paints	The Building Maintenance staffs	Tonne	10 Tonne	20 Tonne	Weight analyzer
1. Ensuring that the employees do work by volunteering 2. Inform them of the benefits of the sustainability 3. Provide proper on-premise training to the employees	The Administrative staffs	Review and Rating methods	NA	1000 plus	Review from the management and stakeholders
1. Developing energy efficient policies including heaters 2. Reducing the lights in the passages and corridors that are over-lit 3. using automatic water taps 4. Periodically insulating all the water pipes	Administrative staff and building maintenance staff	MWH and ML	17723 MWH 64 ML	17368 MWH 62 ML	Unit reading from the electric meter Water usage analyzer
Developing information strategy and taking help of relevant software to store the information of the used resources by every department	Administrative staffs and technical team	Quality as well as time	NA	Before 9 months	Proper testing outcomes
1. Proper usage of the poster with sustainability information at the theatre 2. Informing the audience before the show by speeches	All the administrative staffs	Review and Ratings	NA	1000 plus	Review from the management and the stakeholders
1. Providing the individual production houses with the recyclable wastes 2. Coming up with new ideas and plans on how to make proper use of the unusable products 3. Using Less fuel 4. Making use of solar power	Building maintenance staff	Tonne GJ	0 Tonne 1595	0.5 Tonne 1530	Weight Analyzer Combustion and Emission Analyzer
1. Reducing the food wastes in the cafes and bars 2. Using more products that are recyclable	Building maintenance staff	Tonne	1 Tonne	0.3 Tonne	Weight Analyzer

Charts to summarize the trends in data as well as analyze the data targets

An evaluation of the graphs or charts to identify trends in data and analyse the data targets

It can be seen from the above chart that the usage of the electricity, gas and water in the Sydney Opera house is neither high not low, it is medium. The company has already started its sustainable development journey with its target of one year as indicated in the pi-chart (Sanchez, Hampson & Mohamed, 2015). This target will automatically renew its course again after getting fruitful results .

Sydney Opera House is working in the right direction to achieve the sustainability in its environment. The stakeholders are putting their efforts in the right direction and the audience too is supporting the staffs constantly. Most of the Opera House halls are now running successfully on solar energy (Lewandowski, 2017).

Assessment 2

Sydney Opera House’s sustainability policies are flexible and less costly. Apart from this, all the major aspects of sustainability including the less usage of water, electricity and gases are up to the mark (Sanchez, Brooks & Hampson, 2017). Thus, all these factors will positively contribute help to the opera house in order to achieve better returns and profits.   

The Opera house is recommended to consider their options for transportation. They should promote and encourage their audience and employees to either walk to the close-by destination or use bicycles. They should also use the Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) technique in order to collect the data of infrared spectrum of either the absorption or the emission of the wastes and effectively remove their landfill hazards (Baker et al., 2014).

Conclusion

This report discusses the sustainability policies of the Tiny Opera Company and the Sydney Opera House. In the first assessment section, a sustainability policy for the Tiny Opera Company has been developed and also the strategy to promote the awareness of these policies as well as maximize its impact. The second and the third assessment deals with the implementation plan and monitoring strategies of the Sydney Opera house along with the evaluation of the data in the form of Pi-charts. The report concludes by reviewing the Sydney Opera House sustainability policies and providing recommendations to the Sydney Opera House to improve its policies.

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