| PERFORMANCE STANDARD 1
REQUIREMENTS Social and Environmental Management System PLAN Social and Environmental Assessment Management Programme IMPLEMENT Organisational Capacity Training Community Engagement CHECK Monitoring ACT Reporting | | Performance Standard 1. Social and Environmental Management System
Performance Standard 1 aims to
- Identify and assess social and environment impacts, both adverse and beneficial
- Avoid, or where avoidance is not possible, minimize, mitigate, or compensate for adverse impacts on workers, affected communities , and the environment
- Ensure that affected communities are engaged on issues that could potentially affect them
- Promote improved social and environment performance of companies through the effective use of management systems.
Social and environmental performance must be managed throughout the life of a project, process, product or part there of. Social and environmental management systems: - Are dynamic, continuous processes.
- Ensure communication between client/customer, workers, and local communities directly affected.
- Draw on the elements of classic "quality" systems - “plan, implement, check, and act,” CSR Planner helps make your PLAN.
- Involve the assessment of potential social and environmental impacts and risks. This should be a life cycle assessment - from cradle to grave.
- Provide order and consistency for mitigating and managing these risks and impacts on an ongoing basis.
A good system can lead to improved financial, social and environmental outcomes. | |
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