Aim of Environmental sustainability policy

Environmental sustainability enables an organization to report on the impacts of their operations on environmental issues. Sustainability issues are reported through the sustainability report. Melbourne airport report on environmental sustainability enlists the actions committed through the 2013 Environmental Strategy and Airport master plan. It enlists further opportunities that reduce the carbon footprints of the airport to meet the Victorian Governments goal of zero emissions by the year 20150. The sustainability issue by the airport supports the Australian government to the Paris Agreement signed by a host of countries on climatic changes. The changes have been embedded in the 2018 master plan and environmental strategy draft (Barr, 2016).

1.0 Aim of Environmental sustainability policy

The airport is committed to climatic change. The airport through environmental sustainability is to reduce the emission and planning for the future of climatic changes. Sustainability reporting enables Melbourne airport to consider the impact of the wide range sustainability environmental issues while enabling them to be more transparent about the opportunities and risks they face.

Develop workplace sustainability policy

Be firmly aware of strictly complying with the requirements of the Australians air legislation, rules, regulations and procedures for aviation security, general rules for the carriage of passengers, baggage and cargo by air in terms of the implementation of aviation security measures (Bichou, 2015). At the entrance to the inspection point, check the air tickets and check the documents with the passenger’s identity, offer the passengers to present any metal items they may have, as well as dangerous substances that are forbidden to be carried on the aircraft.

• Stakeholders are identified and consulted as a key component of the policy development process 30 words

Who are the stakeholders involved in the Victorian Logistics and Transport Industry?

• Professional bodies
• Government agencies
• VicRoads
• Police
• Port of Melbourne
• Suppliers
• Passengers using the airport
  • Strategies for minimizing resource use

      Minimizing the effects of pollution in the airport is by using fuel free from toxic pollutants like carbon. Using environmentally friendly sources of energy like the solar powered lighting systems and generators other than using bio diesel fuels.  While consumption from aeroplanes may be mainly from fuel, it is good to not that eco-friendly fuel is used today in most parts of the aviation industry (Christopher, 2016).

1.3 Recommendations are made for policy options based on likely effectiveness, timeframes and cost

Thus, the introduction of environmental impact assessment into a legal environmental protection mechanism as an element in a coherent system of other legal preventive measures prevents the emergence of economic and other facilities or economic activities in violation of the laws on nature conservation and the use of natural resources.

• Policy developed reflects the organisation’s commitment to sustainability as an integral part of business planning and as a business opportunity

Develop workplace sustainability policy

proposals for the improvement of work related to the duties provided for in this job description – require all employees of the Melbourne airport and enterprises not belonging to the Melbourne airport, but located on the airport, to strictly comply with the instructions on access control and internal facilities (Coyle, Langley, Novack, and Gibson, 2016); – to offer passengers to present, perhaps, their substances and items prohibited for transportation on civil aircraft – withdraw (with the drawing up of the deed of withdrawal) from passengers the weapons, ammunition, substances and objects that are prohibited for transportation in the salons of civil aircrafts discovered during the inspection – to detain persons violating aviation safety requirements for transfer to police officers

1.5 Appropriate methods of implementation are agreed

The responsibility of the inspector for the inspection of the SAB is for: – non-compliance disagreement or inadequate performance of duties provided for in this job description; – failure to comply with aviation safety requirements, access control and internal facility conditions; – failure to meet deadlines for the implementation of work plans, instructions and orders of the supervisor; collective and labor agreements, internal labor regulations (Durant, 2017)

Section 2 Sustainability Practices

Communicate the policy

2.1 The policy, including its expected outcome, is promoted to key stakeholders

Resource usage

There are three strategies for when identifying suspicious things and objects immediately notify the LOP officer and the head of the inspection team. Comply with the requirements of aviation security, access control and internal mode. know and be able to use a personal computer, electronic systems and software installed at the workplace, printing devices, office equipment and communication facilities, to ensure the safety and operability of the entrusted equipment. Know the requirements of the “Quality Policy and follow them in work.

Timely address issues related to the prevention of failures, violations and other inconsistencies of the technological process (Grant, Wong, and Trautrims, 2017). In full and in a timely manner, perform the tasks of higher-level managers for the production of works, issued within the limits of the duties of the employee under an employment contract defined by this job description;

Time effects

Waiting to get to the loaded and unloaded time is approximately three hours. The time spent in traffic jams makes the workplace inefficient. The queuing requirements or the effects of queuing is that it creates an organized system in which loading and unloading is done. It ensures the required quality of work performed, provided for by international, state, industry or enterprise standards, instructions, rules, norms, technologies for work performance and other regulatory legal documents.

Who are the stakeholders involved in the Victorian Logistics and Transport Industry?

Intersection and traffic management – do we need more traffic lights or roundabouts?

Communication techniques

            Meet the requirements of standards, regulations and other documents of the quality management system related to its activities. By order of the supervisor, to be directly involved in the development and implementation of current, future and other plans. Report to the immediate supervisor of all identified violations and shortcomings in connection with the work performed. Complying with labor protection requirements and correctly apply the means of collective protection. be trained in safe methods and techniques for performing work and providing first aid to injured people at work, briefing on labor protection, on-the-job training, testing knowledge of labor protection requirements.

Environmental standards in the implementation of production activities.4 Occupational safety at the enterprise Protection of labor is a safety system life and health of workers in the course of employment, including legal, socioeconomic, organizational and technical, sanitary and hygienic, treatment-and-prophylactic, real-life and other measures (Fernie, and Sparks, 2014).

As part of the airport there is a labor protection service (OT). are: – organization of work to ensure the fulfillment by workers of labor protection requirements; – information and advice to the employer and workers on labor protection issues; – preparation of materials for the performance of certification working places; – improving preventive work to prevent industrial injuries, occupational diseases caused by production factors, and working to improve working conditions; – measuring the parameters of hazardous and harmful factors of the working environment in order to certify workplaces and production control of compliance with sanitary and hygienic standards, with the formulation of relevant protocols; – the study, analysis and dissemination of positive experience in occupational safety.           

The functions of the labor protection service are: – recording and analyzing the state and causes of occupational injuries and occupational diseases caused by production factors; – organization of the investigation of accidents at work, participation in the commission for the investigation of an accident at work in accordance with the “Regulations on the features of investigations “Accidents at work in selected industries and organizations (Grant, Wong, and Trautrims, 2017).

development, together with the heads of departments, of the Agreement on Labor Protection, plans of measures to mprove working conditions and health, prevent occupational injuries, occupational diseases and diseases caused by production factors; providing organizational and methodological assistance for the implementation of planned activities; – conducting, together with representatives of relevant departments and with the participation of authorized persons for labor protection, the primary trade union organization of inspections, surveys of the state of sanitary facilities, sanitary facilities, collective and individual means.

Recommendations for policy options

2.2  Those involved in implementing the policy are informed of outcomes expected and activities to be undertaken, and responsibilities are assigned

Recommendation

The section on impact assessment (Environmental Impact Policy) is a mandatory component in any environmental project.Subjects of any organizational and legal forms of ownership when planning an economic or other activity that may have both direct and indirect impact on the environment are required to develop a draft environmental impact policy. The purpose of the environmental impact assessment is to determine the degree of danger and the nature of the consequences for the environment, public health, etc. from the planned activity, as well as to prevent and mitigate the negative components of the impact of these effects.

The draft environmental impact policy is carried out at the stage of justifying investments. It is important that the information used on the natural conditions of the territory and the state of its components (air, resources and subsoil, ground and surface waters, etc.) be as complete and reliable as possible.

Objectives of the environmental project environmental impact policy

The tasks that must be solved during the development of the environmental impact policy project include:

– assessment of the state of the environment before the introduction of planned design decisions, that is, the determination of the initial properties and characteristics of the environment in a certain area and the identification of components that can be directly influenced in the process of implementing design decisions.

– identification of the main factors and types of negative impact arising from the implementation of planned solutions: air pollution, acoustic noise, impact on the soil and groundwater, surface water, general environmental impact (Hugos, 2018)

– justification of the indicators of maximum allowable impact on the basis of environmental management rules and limiting factors of the proposed type of activity;

– development of a plan of measures to neutralize or reduce negative impacts on the ecosystem, taking into account all possible achievements in this field, the use of energy and resource saving technologies, environmental protection systems, etc.

In addition, the environmental impact policy project may include determining the potential of territories in terms of availability of useful resources, the background state of the ecosystem, analysis of the impact of negative technological factors (falling within the boundaries of industrial enterprises, the presence of waste dumps, etc.), evaluation of alternative options for implementing project measures , environmental impact assessment during the construction of the facility and its liquidation, monitoring public opinion by organizing hearings and opinion polls (Hugos, 2018).

Appropriate methods of implementation

What threatens the lack of an environmental impact policy project?

The customer of the planned facility and the developer of the pre-project and project documentation are fully responsible for complying with all laws of the Australian government during the preparation and approval of materials, design, construction and operation of the enterprise. If during the operation of the facility there will be a direct or indirect serious environmental damage, this will entail criminal liability. Violations on the part of preparation, coordination and maintenance of documents, including the draft OVOZ, leads to administrative liability in the form of fines – up to five thousand rubles for officials and up to one hundred thousand rubles for legal entities (Jacobs, Chase, and Lummus, 2014).

Recommendation

Outline recommended strategy(s) for minimizing waste in supply chain activities

Environmental impact assessment of the proposed activity or environmental impact policy originated to protect the environment from the negative effects of humans. The public is involved in the discussion of the materials of the environmental impact policy project. Not only environmental, but also socio-economic changes are considered, ways to minimize negative consequences are being sought.

The following are the strategies for minimizing waste in a supply chain

1. Registration of the technical specifications for the implementation of the environmental impact policy, containing the analysis of the initial data and a preliminary assessment of the proposed activity. Coordination of technical specifications in the State Ecological Expertise. Organization of meetings and discussions with local authorities and representatives of the public.
2. Conduct research and project development. Designation of pollution sources, indication of the levels of the expected effects on the atmosphere, water and soil resources, the degree of acoustic pressure. Search for protective measures to prevent or reduce negative effects.
3. Release of the final version of the environmental impact policy documentation with the minutes of discussions, comments and suggestions, certified by the customer. Transfer of materials for approval to the Public State Environmental Expertise (Lehmann, and Joseph, 2015).
4. Technological analysis of all sections of the environmental impact policy project: economic justification, state of the environment, sources of impacts, anticipated consequences, their severity, carried out by public authorities with public participation. Adjustment of the project, consideration of additional measures for the safety of the environment.
5. Release of the Environmental Impact Statement (EPA), which is the final stage of the environmental impact policy project. In the EPP, the conducted studies, the expected consequences, the customer’s obligations to the public and the guarantee of their implementation are indicated.

What is the timeline and cost of the environmental impact policy?

The whole range of services for the development of environmental impact policy is rather complicated and time consuming, on average, it takes 30 calendar days. Preparation and approval of each specific project of the environmental impact policy depends on many factors, therefore its cost is determined individually.

Environmental Impact assessment.

Under the environmental impact assessment (environmental impact policy) is understood as an activity aimed at determining the nature and extent of the potential impact of the planned activity on the environment, the expected environmental and related social and economic impacts during and after such a project and developing measures to ensure rational use natural resources and environmental protection from harmful effects in accordance with the requirements of current environmental legislation.

OH&S and Environmental Compliance

In the mechanism of environmental law, environmental impact assessment performs the functions associated with identifying potential environmental harm to the planned economic and other activities and developing measures to prevent it. If a state environmental review is a legal means of ensuring that environmental requirements are taken into account and fulfilled at the stage of making an economic, managerial and other decision, then environmental impact policy is the main legal means of ensuring accounting and meeting these requirements at the stage of preparing an appropriate economic decision.

Sustainability Practices

The principal is the question of the objects of the planned economic and other activities subject to environmental impact assessment. In the past 10 years, two approaches have been implemented on this issue in Australia (Mangan, Lalwani, and Lalwani, 2016). The annex to the Regulation on Environmental Impact Assessment in the Australian contained a specific list of activities or objects for which an environmental impact assessment was to be carried out.

The current regulation is based on a different principle: an environmental impact assessment is carried out for planned economic and other activities, the justifying documentation of which is subject to environmental impact assessment in accordance with the Law on Environmental Impact Assessment. This is a wide range of planned activities, including integrated and targeted socio-economic, scientific, technical and other projects, the implementation of which can have an impact on the environment, feasibility studies and construction projects, reconstruction, expansion, technical re-equipment, conservation and liquidation of enterprises and other objects of economic activity, etc. In this section they are considered as objects of environmental impact assessment.

Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance

In employment, the best way to get an employee is by merit. When conducting an employee opportunity compliance in an airport like Melbourne, experience and attitude towards the work matters. In creating equal employment opportunities, the following factors must be looked into before hiring;

• presumption of potential environmental hazard of any planned economic and other activities;
• the obligation to conduct an environmental impact assessment in the planning of economic and other environmentally significant activities; ,
• the obligation to identify and analyze alternative options for achieving the goal of the proposed business and other activities, including the “zero option” (abandonment of the planned activity);
• ensuring public participation in the preparation and discussion of materials on environmental impact assessment of the proposed economic and other activities;
• Include only scientifically based and reliable data in environmental impact assessment materials;
• reflecting in the environmental impact policy materials the results of studies carried out taking into account the interrelationship of various environmental, as well as social and economic factors associated with them (Rushton, Croucher, and Baker, 2014);
• the obligations of the customer to provide all participants in the process of environmental impact assessment with the opportunity to timely receive complete and reliable information;

For various reasons – political and economic – the Kyoto Protocol was not ratified by the United States responsible for emissions of a third of carbon dioxide, and in addition, Australia and China, whose share in such emissions is 13% and 17%, respectively, i.e. about another third.

Section 3 Policy Implementation 

3.1 Procedures to help implement the policy are developed and communicated toStakeholders

The stakeholders in this policies are the airport itself, the management and the employees, the government and the general public. Basically it is whoever uses the airport whether frequently of otherwise.

In the process of personal inspection, it is qualitative and skillful to carry out operations to identify dangerous substances and objects from passengers and in their carry-on baggage by opening and manually searching it. The workplace policy requires a worker to;

– be attentive and polite towards the passengers and not allow actions degrading their dignity;

– Not to allow passengers to fly, who evade inspection, and transfer them to police officers;

– periodically change places every 20 minutes of continuous work at the Introscope monitor with other inspectors located at the inspection point and return to the original functions no earlier than 40 minutes;

Communicate the policy

– to be vigilant, to strictly comply with the requirements of admission and intra-object regime, not to allow access (passage) to the sterile area through the inspection point of unattended passengers, crew members of aircraft and personnel of the enterprise;

– know the list of dangerous substances and items prohibited to passengers and crew members for transportation in the salons of civilian aircraft (McKinnon, Browne, Whiteing, and Piecyk, 2015);

– know the basic characteristics and rules of operation of technical equipment used during the inspection, to be able to use them;

– be able to act in extreme situations during the inspection, identifying weapons, ammunition, explosive devices and explosives;

Aim of the Policy

– to ensure, in the process of inspection, together with the LOP employees, the high-quality and skillful operation to identify and seize passengers and in their carry-on baggage, baggage of hazardous substances and objects prohibited for carriage by civil aircraft;

Objectives

Ensure compliance with environmental protection requirements in accordance with the “List compulsory requirements for the duties and responsibilities of officials related to compliance with environmental standards in the implementation of production activities; – monitor compliance with fire safety, metrological support, environmental safety and other functional activities in the inspection department. Rights of the aviation safety inspection officer: – to make proposals for improving the production process and working conditions, to eliminate deficiencies – to give explanations on issues that are within the competence of the inspection service .

for professional training, retraining in the manner prescribed by the code of the Australian government, other federal laws; – to participate in the competition for the filling of vacant positions. – disclosure of confidential information, commercial and secret secrets; non-use of the rights granted; untimely and poor quality provision of initial information on the tasks to be solved; non-compliance with labor protection requirements in accordance with the legislation; non-compliance with environmental protection requirements in accordance with the list of mandatory requirements for the duties and responsibilities of officials related to compliance (Severo., Guimarães, Dorion, and Nodari, 2015).

4.0 Review policy implementation

4.1 Documented outcomes to the stakeholders

Thus, trade in atmospheric pollution quotas is still “stalling” on a global scale. At the same time, Australia is faced with the issue of comparing the possibilities of obtaining income from the allocated quotas with the consequences of increasing production capacity, which under certain conditions can transform the country from a seller into a buyer of carbon dioxide emissions (while maintaining the raw material orientation of our economy, it is quite possible). Allocation of quotas for radiation exceeding safe levels for life and, moreover, trade in them are absurd in nature. Thus, a full-fledged mechanism for sustainable development of environmental management has not yet been developed and its justification requires fundamental research in the field of evolution of the biosphere with human participation.

Resource usage

4.2 Success or otherwise of the policy implemented

in the field of environmental economics proper, the main paradigm of which should be resource and environmental conservation. Among the promising practical tasks, in our opinion, can be considered battening census and certification of individual landscapes (specific natural complexes). In addition to traditional physiographic information, they should contain calculated data on the biosphere assimilation potential, including those disturbed by economic activity and urban planning.

At the same time, countries that are concerned about maintaining such potential should have certain advantages in international rating environmental-economic assessments (Wang, Gunasekaran, Ngai, and Papadopoulos, 2016). Expedient The periodically updated international certification of landscapes on the grounds of their ecological well-being or adverse.

4.3 policies or procedures needed to be documented

The lack of an environmental impact policy project is a violation of environmental legislation. The perpetrators of this offense bear administrative, criminal and other responsibility in accordance with the provisions of the legislation of the Australian.

Environmental impact policy should be prepared for all planned industrial and business enterprises at each design stage. The regulatory documents of the environmental and sanitary-epidemiological legislation of the Australian, as well as the Town Planning Code, should be used as guidelines. The draft environmental impact policy at the final stage is submitted to the Public State Environmental Review.

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