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WorksheetsModule 5: Planning
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 13mins
When planning the energy management system, what must the organisation take into account?
Only future energy prices
Issues and a review of activities and processes affecting energy performance
Employee satisfaction surveys
Marketing and branding strategies
Planning of the energy management system should primarily be consistent with:
Financial objectives
Environmental permits
Energy policy and continuous improvement of energy performance
Maintenance schedules
One purpose of identifying risks and opportunities is to ensure that the energy management system:
Reduces staffing needs
Meets legal documentation requirements only
Can achieve desired results including energy efficiency improvements
Eliminates all energy costs
Which of the following best describes an objective of addressing risks and opportunities?
Increasing production capacity
Averting or reducing undesired effects
Changing organisational structure
Outsourcing energy activities
What must the organisation plan regarding risks and opportunities?
Only financial mitigation measures
Steps to address them
External consultant involvement
Marketing communication plans
Actions addressing risks and opportunities must be:
Independent of energy management system processes
Integrated and implemented into EnMS and energy performance processes
Managed only by top management
Documented verbally
After implementing actions to address risks and opportunities, the organisation must:
Stop monitoring energy performance
Assess the effectiveness of these actions
Replace energy targets
Eliminate baselines
Energy objectives must be established at:
Top management level only
Appropriate functions and levels
External stakeholder level
Operational staff level only
Energy targets must be:
Optional and informal
Established by the organisation
Defined by regulators
Fixed permanently
Which of the following is a required characteristic of objectives and energy targets?
Confidential
Measurable
Short-term only
Financially focused
Objectives and energy targets must consider:
Office layout
Significant Energy Use (SEU)
Marketing campaigns
Supplier preferences
Which requirement applies to objectives and energy targets?
They must be verbal only
They must be observed, communicated, and updated
They must remain unchanged
They must be externally approved
What documented information must the organisation keep regarding objectives and energy targets?
Informal meeting notes
Documented information on objectives and energy targets
Supplier invoices
Audit schedules
When planning to achieve objectives and energy targets, the organisation must establish:
Emergency procedures
Action plans
Legal compliance matrices
Marketing plans
Which of the following must be included in action plans?
Advertising strategy
What will be done
External benchmarking results
Employee salaries
Action plans must also specify:
Office location
Who will be responsible
Branding guidelines
Supplier marketing plans
How must outcomes of action plans be assessed?
Through financial audits
Using a method to verify improvement in energy performance
Via customer feedback
Through employee surveys
Action plans must be integrated into:
External reporting systems
The organisation’s business processes
Supplier contracts
Human resource policies
What must the organisation keep regarding action plans?
Verbal confirmation
Documented information
Informal emails only
Meeting presentations
What must the organisation develop and conduct?
Financial review
Energy review
Environmental impact assessment
Market analysis
The energy review must analyse energy usage based on:
Estimates only
Measurements and other data
Supplier guarantees
Industry averages
One requirement of the energy review is to identify:
Office equipment suppliers
Current energy types
Training needs
Customer energy use
Significant energy uses are identified based on:
Employee opinions
Analysis of energy usage and consumption
Equipment age
Financial budgets
For each significant energy use, the organisation must determine:
Marketing objectives
Appropriate variables
Supplier contracts
Staff shift patterns
The energy review must identify:
All employees
Individuals whose work affects significant energy use
External consultants
Customers
The energy review must be updated:
Only during certification
At defined intervals and after significant changes
Every month
Only after audits
Energy performance indicators must be:
Financial indicators
Suitable for measuring and monitoring energy performance
Generic across industries
Fixed permanently
EnPIs must allow the organisation to:
Reduce staff workload
Demonstrate improved energy performance
Eliminate energy audits
Predict market trends
What must be kept as documented information regarding EnPIs?
Training records
Methodology for determining and updating EnPIs
Supplier data
Marketing reports
EnPI values must be reviewed and compared to:
Industry benchmarks only
Energy baselines
Financial forecasts
Legal limits
An energy baseline is established using information from:
Financial audits
Energy review
Supplier invoices
Risk registers
When relevant variables significantly affect energy performance, the organisation must:
Ignore them
Normalise EnPI values and energy baseline
Change objectives
Replace indicators
An energy baseline must be revised when:
Employees change roles
Energy performance is no longer reflected in EnPIs
Budgets are updated
New suppliers are selected
Information on energy baselines must be kept as:
Informal notes
Documented information
Verbal agreements
Meeting minutes only
The organisation must identify and monitor:
Marketing activities
Essential operational features impacting energy performance
Employee attendance
Customer preferences
The energy data collection plan must be appropriate to:
Industry competition
Size, complexity, and resources of the organisation
Financial turnover
Marketing strategy
The energy data collection plan must specify:
Staff training needs
What data is required and how often it is collected
Supplier payment terms
Legal risks
Which data must be gathered and kept as documented information?
Employee appraisals
Energy consumption related to significant energy uses
Customer feedback
Marketing KPIs
The energy data collection plan must be:
Static and unchanged
Reviewed and updated at defined intervals
Confidential
Optional
Measurement equipment must provide data that is:
Approximate
Accurate and repeatable
Financially optimised
Industry-standard only
