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Written Questions: Issues Q1. Briefly describe one current global environmental issue: Q2. Briefly describe one current national environmental issue: Q3. Briefly describe one current loc... al environmental issue: Q4. What are the three tiers of the Australian government that may be involved in environmental laws, regulations and bylaws? Q5. Name one Act of Environmental legislation: Q6. Briefly describe two environmental issues that a business would need to have professional advice to manage in the workplace: Q7. Use of electricity is calculated in what unit of measurement? Q8. What are the advantages of a Smart Meter in measuring electric use? Q9. Name two sources of electricity, which would be considered to be ‘Sustainable’: Q10. Name one source of electricity that would NOT be considered Sustainable: Q11. Briefly describe the concept of ‘Product Stewardship’: Q12. If the cost of electricity is $ 0.31 per KWh and the total cost of the electricity bill for a 60 day period is $1,979.00. Q13. What is a ‘Waste Audit’? Q14. Briefly describe two environmental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for a truck transport business: Q15. What is an ‘ISO 14001? Q16. There is a four-step model that can be utilised to carry out change and continuous improvement. What are the four steps? Q17. Briefly describe two ways to monitor the use of water within a business: Q18. Describe one way to reward staff in the business, for success on environmental outcomes of the business: Task - Quiz 1. What is an environmental regulation that applies to your enterprise? 2. How can you monitor resource use? 3. When may you need to seek specialist advice? 4. How can you reward staff when they follow successful strategies? 5. What environmental issues do you need to consider? 6. What information do you need to collect to assess compliance and environmental standards of the business? 7. How do you measure water flow? 8. What does the term ‘benchmarking’ mean? 9. Describe your businesses purchasing strategy? Project BSBSUS401 IMPLEMENT AND MONITOR ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE WORK PRACTICES Assignment activity 1 Research and show two Acts or Regulations that apply to a business and give details of those Acts or Regulations. Explain how they apply and what impact they have in your workplace. If you are not currently employed, then you will need to choose a local business as your case study. Assignment activity 2 Identify an environmental area of your current workplace where the business would need to seek professional advice from a suitable qualified and experienced environmental consultant. Find a suitable consultant or business that could perform this consultancy and give their details If you are not currently employed, then you will need to choose a local business as your case study. Assignment activity 3 To complete this assignment, you will need to access information from a business or your home. Speak to the management at your workplace and seek access to details about your energy use. Show the use of electricity used in your business for a one month period and show what the source of this information. Include any calculations you made to get to the use of the one month. Assignment activity 4: This is the same as activity 6 on the next page, but we want you to include the results in the assignment as a form of assessment. Choose at tap or water source at your business and check the flow rate in liters per minute give the details of the experiment. Assignment activity 6 Look at the system that is used to purchase goods in your business and outline areas you see that could be improved. This could be by purchasing a different product, asking for better packaging, swapping to a product that produces less waste, swapping to a product that is less harmful, swapping to a more environmentally friendly product or many other reasons. Assignment activity 7 Conduct a waste audit of your current workplace or any part or department of your current workplace. Aim for about a one week period if possible. Assignment activity 8 Recommend one performance improvement form the results of the waste audit and set a target for that performance improvement. Explain the reasons for setting that target. Process Monitor is another tool for Windows process performance monitoring that is primarily useful for real-time monitoring of process performance. It provides functionality similar to that of Task Manager but without any control over processes. It simply outputs process performance measurements to the command prompt windows. Process Monitor is not very configurable and only has one update rate: every five seconds. Like Task Manager and Performance Monitor, Process Monitor gets its performance measures via the system counters. The advantage of Process Monitor over Task Manager is more in user preference than anything else. Some users who are more comfortable with command line interfaces or who prefer the simplest view into the state of the processes running on a machine may prefer Process Monitor over Task Manager. However, there is not any data provided by Process Monitor that is not also displayed in Task Manager. Feedback: - Please see example of Environmental action plan on page 49 and create one table for your answer. Assignment activity 9 Detail how you monitor that performance improvement and target that you have set. Waste Management Planning – Designed to guide your corporate practice and policy for efficiency, compliance and achieving optimum waste performance targets. Waste Tracking and Reporting – A proactive approach to tracking and reporting on waste management performance to achieve optimum levels of cost and performance efficiency. Assignment activity 10: Look up the SAI Global and show one ISO or AS standard on environmental practices relevant to your business. [Show More]

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