Minimise the environmental impact of logistics operations
Overview
This standard is about minimising the environmental impact of
logistics operations. It includes monitoring the environmental impact and identifying ways to minimise that impact. It also includes monitoring energy efficiency and reducing, re-using and recycling materials.
This standard is relevant to all operatives at every level in logistics operations. Operatives could, for example, be working in warehousing and storage, transport, or freight forwarding. The standard could apply to those who look after a number of staff and have line manager responsibility.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
identify the organisational environmental, sustainability and recycling policies and practices relevant to logistics operations
implement the organisation's environmental, sustainability and recycling policy and practices, and confirm that they are promoted to all colleagues in your organisation
- monitor the energy and materials used to deliver logistics operations in your organisation
- assess the potential environmental impact of your organisation's logistics operations before they are undertaken
- monitor the impact that your organisation's current logistics operations have on the environment
- identify and suggest ways to minimise any potential adverse effects of your organisation's logistics operations on the environment
- identify ways to reduce, reuse or recycle materials used in logistics operations to minimise the impact your organisation has on the environment
- identify ways to use energy and materials more efficiently for logistics operations in your organisation to minimise their environmental impact
- dispose of surplus materials from your organisation's logistics operations, according to the relevant legislation and organisational procedures
- brief partners and subcontractors on their environmental responsibilities when working with your organisation
- record work carried out in the relevant information and recording system, in accordance with organisational procedures
- comply with organisational procedures and all the relevant legal, environmental, health and safety, bio-security and operating requirements when monitoring the environmental impact of logistics operations
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
the environmental protection measures used within your organisation and how these relate to logistics operations
how to select and use systems to assess the environmental impact of your organisation's logistics operations
- the environmental issues affecting the logistics industry
- your organisation's environmental and recycling policy and how this impacts on the cost of logistics operations
- the relevant legislation, regulations and organisational procedures applying to the disposal of surplus materials
- how to recycle and dispose of surplus materials to minimise the organisation's impact on the environment
- the ways in which your organisation's material usage can be improved to minimise the environmental impact in logistics operations
- the ways in which your organisation's energy efficiency can be improved to minimise the environmental impact in logistics operations
- the relevant regulatory bodies for logistics operations and their compliance requirements
- the roles, responsibilities, and management systems relevant to logistics operations in your organisation
- the information and recording systems, monitoring systems and communication methods used by your organisation
- the organisational procedures and all the relevant legal, environmental, health and safety, bio-security and operating requirements when monitoring the environmental impact of logistics operations
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
- Environment: the natural environment, i.e. land, air and water
- Environmental impact: any change to the environment resulting from an individual's or organisation's activities, products or services
- Environmental, legal, safety and operating requirements: safety regulations, codes of practice, load restrictions, working-time regulations, transport regulations, working practices, **operating procedures, industry guidelines