What is the Skill Set?
This Skill Set covers analysing the social, environmental and economic sustainability risks caused by different steps in a process and/or links in the value chain, and developing recommendations to reduce those risks. The Skill Set is aimed at organisations where energy use is a sustainability issue of particular relevance.
The unit of competency in the Reduce sustainability risk Skill Set is:
Level and scope
Reducing sustainability risk for a process or organisation includes:
- Applying the principles of sustainability and significant sustainability issues such as climate change
- Identifying social, environmental and economic risks including estimating the aggregate of all non significant impacts
- Analysing and evaluating sustainability risks using root cause analysis
- Developing responses to significant risks
- Selecting and recommending possible responses
- Negotiating and communicating with stakeholders to gain formal approval for the recommendations.
MSS017001 Analyse and determine organisation risk areas in sustainability is a high level unit takes a broad view of sustainability risk, but can be contextualised for organisations where energy use is a sustainability issue of particular relevance.The unit of competency aims to help an organisation determine its sustainability priorities.
The unit covers analysis of an organisation’s interactions with the environment, the specifics of the local situation and determining risks and vulnerabilities (hot spots) for close monitoring or action.
A key part of this unit is selecting the right boundaries for the risk analysis as part of the process mapping.
The unit does not require the recommendations to be implemented as there are too many variables out of the control of the learner, such as obtaining the capital required, possible competing projects and the long timeline required.
Target group
The Skill Set applies to organisations where energy is identified as a significant risk to sustainability. It can apply to an entire process, part of a large organisation or all/part of a value chain.
The Skill Set is targeted at people such as managers, senior technicians and senior technologists. They may work as individuals or as part of a team.
The Skill Set requires that the learner has detailed high level technical knowledge of the process and organisation. Learners will general have existing qualifications such as an Advanced Diploma or Diploma in sustainability or a relevant technical field, a Bachelor degree and/or extensive vocational practice.
Relationship to other Skill Sets
The Reduce sustainability risk Skill Set complements the Recommend energy improvements Skill Set which has a more mathematical approach and could be used to develop data to drive the decision making in the Reduce sustainability risk Skill Set.
