Review Environmental Performance in Support of Sustainable Business Practice
Overview
This standard describes the skill and knowledge required to review and identify changes to organisation targets and objectives against environmental performance. The standard looks at the identification of changes and the development of a plan to implement these.
This standard would be appropriate for:
1 A manager with responsibility for environmental management and or sustainability
2 An owner manager of a business seeking to improve the environmental performance of the organisation
3 An individual with a specific brief to review environmental performance
4 An environmental management systems co-ordinator or equivalent
5 A consultant providing environmental advice
This standard covers the setting and implementation of objectives and targets using good practice.
It includes the identification, measurement and communication of current practice and the identification of improvements, the communication to interested parties and the development of a plan for change.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
P1 liaise with interested parties to establish objectives and targets
P2 establish objectives and targets associated with the significant environmental aspects of the organisation
P3 confirm that objectives and targets are consistent with environmental legal and other regulatory requirements
P4 ensure that objectives and targets are consistent with the environmental policy
P5 confirm that objectives and targets are specific, measurable, achievable, responsibility assigned and time bound
P6 identify current organisational objectives and targets for environmental performance
P7 establish measures to evaluate the achievement of objectives and targets for environmental performance
P8 identify variations and reasons for these
P9 review the achievement of objectives and targets of environmental performance
P10 identify good practice and areas of improvement in relation to environmental performance
P11 communicate and record the perceptions and views of interested parties to recommend changes to objectives and targets for environmental performance improvement
P12 communicate recommendations for change to colleagues and interested
parties
P13 establish and agree a plan of change that identifies and measures the impact on objectives and targets and the resources required
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
K1 benefits to the organisation and to the environment of improved environmental performance
K2 resources required to implement potential improvements to environmental performance
K3 relevant environmental, legal and other non-regulatory environmental requirements applicable to the organisation
K4 current industry best practice associated with the environmental aspects of the organisation
K5 methods for benchmarking organisational environmental performance
K6 how to record findings in a suitable format
K7 how to identify the relevant interested parties and access their views
K8 how to predict the environmental, social and economic benefits of potential improvements
K9 how to reach valid, accurate and reliable findings
K10 the reasons for and benefits of continual improvement of environmental performance
K11 how to formulate and present recommendations for improvements to environmental performance
K12 key performance indicators associated with improvement to environmental performance