All your employees can affect the efficient use of resources in day to day operations. Employees ‘at the coal face’ often have good ideas about how to reduce energy, fuel and water use, minimise reject products and wastage and what to recycle or reuse.
Operational resource efficiency focuses on what can be achieved at the operational, shop floor or team level. However any efficiency improvements will be temporary if the new practices are not supported by management and not embedded into daily procedures and workplace culture – “how we do business”. Encouraging employees to take a personal interest in sustainability will help to embed new practices and procedures that might otherwise fall by the wayside. However, a targeted change management approach might be needed to help you address any pockets of resistance.