Topic 3, Part 1: Monitor Performance Improvement Strategies

Topic 3, Part One: Monitor Performance Improvement Strategies

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Why should performance improvement strategies be monitored and reviewed?

Why should performance improvement strategies be monitored and reviewed?

Evaluation is an important part of the continuous improvement process. This provides the necessary information to design improvements, identify further opportunities and learn from challenges presented during implementation. Evaluation also provides an opportunity to thank and reward participants, and to promote the success to stakeholders.

How can you:

• monitor an organisation’s environmental performance?

• monitor the environmental performance of your work area?

• monitor paper use?

• monitor resource use?

Monitor an organisation’s environmental performance

An organisation or a team within an organisation may want to improve its environmental performance for a variety of reasons, not always primarily to save the environment; for example to improve its image, to save money, or in response to consumer or shareholder demands.

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How can you monitor an an organisation’s environmental performance?

Monitor the environmental performance of your work area

You may not be involved in monitoring or improving the environmental performance of your whole organisation. However, improving the environmental performance of your work area will contribute to the environmental performance of the organisation.

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How can you monitor the environmental performance of your work area?

Monitor Paper Use

Paper includes notebooks, envelopes, manila folders, boxes, toilet and cleaning paper, newspapers, magazines and other paper-based products. You should keep written or electronic records of all the paper that comes into the workplace and how it is used and disposed of.

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How can you monitor paper use?

Monitor Resource Use

There are many tools and technologies available to monitor your work area’s environmental performance. For example, you might keep electronic records, such as spreadsheets with graphical information.

Monitor Resource Use of:

• Waste disposal

• Energy use

• Purchasing