Reference no: EM132599364
Assessment Task 1
Instruction for the student
This is an individual assessment. You are required to demonstrate the skills required to review and develop policies. If you need help understanding any questions, ask your assessor to explain.
To be deemed competent you will need to successfully demonstrate the following:
You must submit:
• three policy option summaries
an interim report that includes:
• an outline of the environmental and sustainability legislation that applies to Tiny Opera Company
• an explanation of how you developed a sustainability policy that reflects Tiny Opera Company's commitment to sustainability
• strategies for promoting awareness of the sustainability policy
• strategies for maximising the impact of the policy (training, marketing, stakeholder engagement)
• final version of the sustainability policy.
You have been hired as the new environment officer at Tiny Opera Company. You will need to review the Tiny Opera Company case study including their sustainability policy. You need to determine the shortfalls between the sustainability approach and the practices required of Tiny Opera Company and develop the sustainability policy to reflect those requirements.
You will need to present draft policy documents to the Business Manager (your assessor) to agree on the final policy document.
Procedure
Review the case study information provided and determine all legislative and regulatory documents that describe compliance requirements for this company.
Research best practice models used by theatres and performance spaces.
Develop three options for the direction and focus of the policy and consider the likely effectiveness, timeframe and cost of implementing the option. Write summaries of each option to present in your consultation with the Business Manager (your assessor).
Meet with the Business Manager (your assessor) to consult on the policy options and decide on the preferred option.
Draft a sustainability policy for Tiny Opera Company based on your research, the company information provided and your consultation session. Ensure that you:
• specify the scope of the policy (who it applies to, relevant standards and legislation)
• outline Tiny Opera Company's commitment to the policy
• address areas of sustainability that Tiny Opera Company specifically wants to focus on.
Meet with Business Manager (your assessor) to discuss:
• typical barriers to sustainability policy implementation and possible strategies to address barriers
• the process you are taking to develop the policy
• the draft policy and gain approval for your draft.
Update your draft policy according to agreements that you made in consultation with the Business Manager.
Collate your research into legislation and best practice models and the sustainability policy you have developed into an interim report that includes:
• an outline of the environmental and sustainability legislation that applies to Tiny Opera Company
• an explanation of how you developed a sustainability policy that reflects Tiny Opera Company's commitment to sustainability
• strategies for promoting awareness of the sustainability policy
• strategies for maximising the impact of the policy (training, marketing, stakeholder engagement).
Submit the report, and the final version of the sustainability policy, to your assessor. Ensure you keep copies for your records.
Case study - Tiny opera Company
Assessment Task 2
This is an individual assessment. Using the Sydney Opera House corporate documents as well as additional information provided, you will develop an implementation plan and monitoring strategy to achieve targets.
For this assessment you will also communicate sustainability requirements to Sydney Opera House employees (other learners acting as employees) by developing a training session.
For this assessment task, you will review corporate information available from the Sydney Opera House and use the targets provided to develop an implementation plan and monitoring strategy to meet those targets.
Then, using your implementation plan, the Sydney Opera House Environmental Sustainability Policy, and other Sydney Opera House documentation, develop a 10-15 minute presentation or training session to deliver to internal employees of the Sydney Opera House. You should outline the sustainability policy and what it means to Opera House staff. As part of this presentation, you must describe how the revised processes will be implemented and managed.
You will need to promote the policy and its expected outcomes and explain how the outcomes affect key stakeholders.
You will also need to assign and outline responsibilities for using recording systems to track sustainability improvements.
If you need help understanding any questions, ask your assessor to explain.
To be deemed competent you will need to successfully demonstrate the following:
You must:
• submit an implementation plan
• submit a monitoring strategy
• submit a short procedure
• deliver a presentation/training session to employees (other learners acting as employees)
• address comments and questions from employees (other learners acting as employees)
• submit notes, PowerPoint presentation slides, handouts and any other materials used to support the presentation
• collect feedback from audience members (other learners acting as employees).
Procedure
Part A
You will develop an implementation plan and monitoring strategy to meet Sydney Opera House targets provided.
Review the Sydney Opera House vision, mission, goals and policies, especially the Environmental Sustainability Policy. These documents are available from the Corporate Information.
Complete a sustainability implementation plan (using the template provided in Appendix 2) to implement the Sydney Opera House sustainability policy and meet the sustainability targets set out in Appendix 1.
In the implementation plan, include:
• two or more actions for each target (listed in Appendix 1)
• at least one action that involves staff training
• at least one action that involves communication to staff through a presentation.
Develop a monitoring strategy (using the template provided in Appendix 3) for meeting the targets that includes:
• key outcomes expected for each action and person
• metrics/key performance indicators for each action
• a method of gathering and recording data on sustainability performance.
Arrange a meeting with your assessor to explain the actions you've chosen and gain approval for actions from your assessor. You and your assessor will also need to discuss and agree upon a method of recording audience feedback to your presentation or training delivered in Part B of this task.
Submit the implementation plan and monitoring strategy to your assessor. Ensure you keep copies for your records. You will need to refer to this implementation plan in Part B of this task as well as in Assessment Task 3.
Part B
Using your implementation plan, you will develop a presentation or training session for Sydney Opera House employees. Your aim is to use the presentation or training to improve resource efficiency at the Sydney Opera House.
Using your implementation plan, choose to either design and deliver a presentation (according to the action that involves communication to staff through a presentation) or a training session (according to the action that involves staff training) to Sydney Opera House staff.
Review the organisational structure (see Appendix 4) to determine the appropriate audience for the presentation or training session.
Develop a 10-15 minute presentation or training session in accordance with your implementation plan.
Design the presentation or training to improve resource efficiency in some area (e.g. how to use new waste systems in the cafe) and include a short procedure to help achieve targets in the implementation plan.
During either your presentation or training you will need to include:
• a brief description of the Sydney Opera House Environmental Sustainability Policy and its expected outcomes for stakeholder groups (you can access the Environmental Sustainability Policy from
• an outline of Sydney Opera House systems and procedures that relate to sustainability information for staff as to what their responsibilities are, what activities they are to carry out and what outcomes are expected
• additional time (5-10 minutes) for questions and comments from staff.
Distribute feedback questionnaires (using the template provided in Appendix 5) and collect these at the completion of your presentation/training. Ensure you keep copies of questionnaires or other form of measuring audience feedback for use in Assessment Task 3.
Assessment Task 3
Instruction for the student
This is an individual assessment. For this assessment you are required to demonstrate the skills required to review the success or otherwise of the implementation of actions from your plan in Assessment Task 2. You will need to evaluate records to identify trends and determine the efficacy of policy and procedures. You will need to recommend changes to policy where performance improvement is required.
You are required to complete a review of the implementation of resource efficiency activities developed in Task 2.
As part of the review process you are undertaking, you need to ensure that you:
• monitor and review records of implementation (provided to you by your assessor), and identify trends or apparent areas requiring ongoing action
• document the outcomes of the implementation strategy and evaluate the success or otherwise of the policy and sustainability management
• review audience feedback to your presentation/training from Assessment Task 2
• recommend modifications to the policy and management of sustainability.
To be deemed competent you will need to successfully demonstrate the following:
• You must submita written report.
Procedure
Review the reports that document resource use at the Sydney Opera House (provided by your assessor). Note that there are four spreadsheets available in the document provided. You can navigate between the records by selecting the tabs at the bottom of this Excel document.
Review the Sydney Opera House Environmental Sustainability Policy, Environmental Sustainability Plan, and other Sydney Opera House corporate information and policy documents.
Review the audience feedback from Task 2.
Review the resource efficiency targets provided in Assessment Task 2 and the related actions you created for each target in your implementation plan. For the purposes of this assessment, assume that the actions you developed were implemented in FY 06/07 at the Sydney Opera House.
Using the data provided (in the spreadsheets given to you by your assessor) and the corporate information available to you, develop a written report that includes:
• graphs or charts that could describe or summarise progress towards established targets
• an evaluation of the graphs or charts to identify trends in data and analyse data targets identified in Task 2
• a description of the success and/or shortfalls of the implementation of sustainability and communication targets based on trends in resource use; audience feedback from Task 2; a description of trends that may require remedial action; include a plan that describes how these areas can be continuously improved in the future; a review of Sydney Opera House policies' coverage of measuring and analysing resource consumption to determine how the recording of resource consumption is currently addressed in policy; recommendations for improvements to policy, communication and management of sustainability based on data taken from analysis of records.
Attachment:- Develop Workplace Policy and Procedures for Sustainability.rar