Cumbria Business Environment Network
1. Environmental Policy (COMPULSORY)
The first thing that you need to do is write an Environmental Policy and adopt it for your organisation. Your CBEN Consultant can provide you with a template that can be modified to suit your own business. Your environmental policy should contain a number of commitments which your business will support through your decisions and actions.
The other important part of this section it to make your Policy publically available.
To comply you need to have written, adopted and displayed your Environmental Policy
2. Aspects and Impacts (COMPULSORY)
Identifying your aspects and impacts is a very important part of addressing your environmental footprint. You need to document all aspects that will have a bearing on the environment. Then rate them in terms of severity and frequency.
To comply you must produce Aspects and Impacts register, rating the severity and frequency of the risks.
3. Objectives and Targets (COMPULSORY)
Now you have complete a register for your aspects and Impacts you can realistically set your business some targets. It might be worthwhile to do this as one of the last things within your Green at Heart award. You will then be able to identify what you are currently doing and what you could do in the future.
You can make a register like you have done with the Aspects and Impacts and enter all the targets that you have identified Select and log a responsible person for the task and the timeframe for completion. Monitor the progress and log the outcomes whether it was achieved or not.
Make sure that the targets you set are realistic and achievable with your timeframe.
To comply create and maintain an objectives and targets register, which clearly show some targets and a timeline for them to be completed by.
4. Staff Awareness and Involvement (COMPULSORY)
There are many ways which you can comply with this section. You can organise training, create an awareness week/day, and arrange for a staff member to take meter readings. Basically anything that involves your staff can be counted here. What you need to be able to show is that your staff are taking an active part in the contribution to the award.
To comply show that staff are involved with the scheme and want to reduce their own carbon footprint