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Sustainability and Environmental Management E-105
Strategies for Sustainability Management
Robert B. Pojasek, PhDAdjunct Lecturer on Environmental Science,
Harvard School of Public Health
Week 4: Systems Approach to Sustainability
Framework for Sustainability Projects
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Program Projects Not Initiatives
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INITIATIVES
Sustainability Program within the Sustainability Management System
First – Hierarchical Process Mapping
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1 2 3
2.1 2.2 2.3
2.2.1 2.2.2 2.2.3 2.2.4
Top Level
Second Level
Third Level
Resource Accounting
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Determine the Risk of the Projects
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Source: Department for Education and Skills, part of Document 0235/2004
Determine the Operational Risk
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Source: Department for Education and Skills, part of Document 0235/2004
Select the Projects Using Risk
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Define the Project
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Rank-Order with Pareto
80% of the $$$ are spent on 20% of the resources/losses
Oldest tool in the Systems Approach (Vilfredo Pareto, 1897)
Separates the vital few from the trivial many
Can also use Pareto for risks to the business
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Pareto Chart
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Root Cause Analysis
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Brainwriting – Alternative Solutions
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Bubble-up/bubble-down is designed to select an alternative for implementation
It is a forced-pair comparison
It allows for extensive team interaction
No alternatives are eliminated
Additional information may be required in an iterative prioritizing process
Prioritizing Alternative Solutions
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Potential for compliance through prevention
Reduction in hazard and risk
Resource conservation enhanced
Recovery of valuable by-products
Benefits safety of workers
Gains management/worker support
Effectiveness
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Benchmark candidates available
Engineering sophistication of project
Availability of suitable vendors
Availability of equipment
Little disruption to production
Adequate space available
Ability to Implement
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Availability of capital
Positive cost/benefit analysis
Expedient payback potential
Availability of outside funding assistance
Reduction of future risk/liability
Cost
Draft Action Plan
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ActionResponsible
PersonPerformance
StandardCompletion
DeadlineResourcesNeeded
Date:
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Alternative Selected•Purpose•Project•Benefits
Integration of sustainability into core business practices - ‘make the business case’
Make sustainability part of every business decision (management)
Make sustainability part of what every employee does every day (workers)
Drive for continual improvement with prevention as the preferred means
Systems Approach to Sustainability
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ANY QUESTIONS?