You have just been employed as a sustainability manager in ABC Company. As an organisation, ABC Company has embedded sustainability into its charter as is indicated by company mission statement and sustainability policy. The company business plan also mentioned sustainability policy, but neither it nor the current operational plan contain any detail for implementation of the sustainability initiatives in the policy.

Your CEO developed your position description with an emphasis on transforming the mission statement and sustainability policy into a plan for implementation. You need to complete the tasks below.

$1.$ Access the ABC vision, mission and values statement and sustainability environmental policy. Examine the scope of these documents and review them against the criteria listed below:

$$ Minimising resource use

$$ Increasing resource efficiency

$$ Reducing toxic material and hazardous chemical use

$$ Employing life cycle management approaches

$$ Continuous improvement

In examining the scope of these documents, you will also need to review the continuous improvement procedures, supplier policy, purchasing resource acquisition policy, purchasing resources acquisition procedures, risk management policy and risk management procedures. As an outcome of this examination, prepare a table that outlines how the scope of the ABC sustainability policy may need to change. Include a brief supporting justification.

$2.$ Review the ABC sustainability policy against federal and state$/$ territory environmental and sustainability legislation to ensure that the scope of the policy is adequate to accommodate legislative requirements.

a$)$ Make a table of relevant federal and state$/$ territory legislation that should be considered and the key aspects of each law that should be built into the sustainability policy.

b$)$ Prepare a further table that outlines how the scope of the sustainability policy may need to change in order to reflect the legislative requirements that you have determined are relevant. Include a brief supporting justification.

$3.$ Access the organisation charts and examine them to determine the roles of managers in the organisation. Using the current policies and procedures that you have reviewed, prepare a series of questions for each manager that will assist you in determining the current extent of implementation of sustainable practices at ABC. Present these questions in table form with an adjacent column that provides a short explanation of how each question will assist in planning and developing sustainability policy.

$4.$ Given that ABC is a large manufacturing and retail business, prepare a table of external information sources that could assist in planning and developing sustainability policy. List at least $2$ sources with an adjacent column that provides a short explanation of the type of useful information that each source could provide.

$5.$ Prepare a table of stakeholders, internal and external, who should be consulted in planning and developing sustainability policy. List at least $2$ stakeholders with an adjacent column that provides a short explanation of what influence each may have in planning and developing sustainability policy.

$6.$ The CEO has reviewed your scoping and consultation documents and provided feedback. She noted that there is nothing to indicate the positive effects that sustainable practices will have on the business such as cost savings, or increased sales or return on investments. Prepare a short briefing paper that could be presented to senior management, explaining how implementation of a sustainability policy could benefit the organisation financially.

$7.$ The current ABC sustainability policy has a number of sustainability initiatives. Prepare a table that lists each of these initiatives and also includes at least $2$ more initiatives that you feel would be appropriate. For each of these initiatives, outline the steps or phases that would be required to implement them, and prepare some performance indicators that could be used to measure the ongoing outcomes of the initiatives.

$8.$ Revise the ABC sustainability policy based on the research and information collation that you have undertaken. You also need to make sure there are appropriate strategies at all stages of work for minimising resources use, reducing toxic material and hazardous chemical use and employing life cycle management approaches.

$9.$ Prepare a briefing document for ABC senior management that informs them of the reviewed policy and suggested sustainability initiatives. The briefing document should also outline the responsibilities of each senior management in implementing the policy and its initiatives.

$10.$ Prepare a short flyer that promotes the benefits of the sustainability policy to all staff. The flyer should list the policy, key initiatives and the people responsible for implementing the policy.