IMPSF119 – Contribute to sustainable practice in a food environment
Overview
This standard covers the skills and knowledge needed to work in a sustainable way in food manufacture or supply. You will need to work effectively to ensure the efficient use of resources and to minimise waste. In addition, you need to assess your own performance and identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency.
This standard is for you, if you work in a food environment.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
assess own performance to identify possible efficiency improvements
report any opportunities to improve efficiency of resource usage
report variations in resource usage and any actions you have taken in response
implement actions to improve efficiency of resource usage
minimise waste
Knowledge and understanding
You need to know and understand
what is meant by sustainable food manufacture
why it is important to work to organisational production specifications
how to assess your own performance for opportunities to improve efficiency
the importance of reporting incidences of inefficient resource usage
how not working to organisational production specifications can impact on resource usage and sustainability
energy as a resource and opportunities available for reducing energy usage
how efficient energy usage supports sustainable food manufacture
water as a resource and the opportunities available for reducing water usage
how the efficient use of water supports sustainable food manufacture
how minimising waste supports sustainable food manufacture
transport as a resource and the opportunities available for reducing transport usage
how efficient use of transport as a resource supports sustainable food manufacture
how efficient use of resources supports the economic sustainability of the organisation
social benefits of sustainable food manufacturing
your own responsibilities relevant to sustainable food manufacture
IMPSF119 – Contribute to sustainable practice in a food environment
Overview
This standard covers the skills and knowledge needed to work in a sustainable way in food manufacture or supply. You will need to work effectively to ensure the efficient use of resources and to minimise waste. In addition, you need to assess your own performance and identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency.
This standard is for you, if you work in a food environment.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
You need to know and understand
Keywords: Food; manufacture; sustainable; environmental; production; waste; energy; water; transport; efficiency; drink