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Chances are one of the
statements on your right sounds familiar! While Councils across
Australia and around the world are embracing the concept of
sustainability and environmental, social and economic performance
improvement, many are struggling (some unknowingly) to make it all
work in a practical, integrated way.
This is where Omega can help. We are local government
environmental and sustainability specialists.
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Our working
knowledge of environmental management and reporting, and
management systems implementations in local government is
immense. | We have shown through past
projects that any Council can achieve solid financial gains and
environmental, safety and social performance improvement from a well
thought out approach to sustainability.
Our range of services to local government provide all the tools
you need to stop talking about sustainability, and make it work for
you on the ground! All these services are geared around our
philosophy that integration, and a systematic approach to the
building of a sustainable Council, are the keys to success!
Our five key local government services help you achieve this
systematic, integrated outcome:
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS REVIEW
- Our Management
Systems Review service provides you with a thorough
analysis of all aspects of your Council's operations, to identify
what can be integrated, and where environmental, safety, community
and financial programs should be added or existing programs
adjusted to deliver a streamlined and integrated sustainability
management system. The key to the review process is the delivery
of a detailed roadmap at the end of the review that outlines each
step your organisation should follow to build the integrated
system. Click to
find out more...
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS MENTORING
EDUCATION
AND TRAINING
REPORTING
- We have the expertise to help you develop informative and
manageable Triple
Bottom Line Reports to track the outcomes of your
integrated management systems. In particular,
we specialise in the development of practical State of the
Environment Reports that contain information
useful to management and the community, ensuring the document is
referred to regularly as an integral tool in everyday operations.
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to find out more...
CITIES
FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION PROGRAM
Omega is widely regarded as
Australia’s leading provider of CCP™ assistance to Councils, in
terms of experience, knowledge and affordability.
We are local
government CCP™ specialists, having worked with 26 Councils across
Australia on all five CCP™ Program Milestones, as well as the CCP™
Plus Program. Click to
find out more...
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"We have a lot of great ideas in our Council,
and have joined plenty of programs such as the Cities for
Climate Protection Campaign to demonstrate our commitment to
environmental performance improvement and sustainability……but
are we really being strategic in the way we are going about it
all? We seem to spend most of our time reinventing the wheel
and duplicating ourselves across all our initiatives!
Shouldn't initiatives like these, and other things like our
OHS programs, be brought together into a single streamlined
approach?"
"We seem to hook onto anything and everything when it comes
to environmental management and sustainability. For example, a
Councillor went to a water conservation conference last week
and heard all these great things a Victorian Council is doing
in that area, and now he has convinced everyone here that we
should be doing the same thing!"
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worry about, because we have |
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objective way of determining what our priorities are…..we just
seem to follow everyone else!"
"We have been pushed into this sustainability thing by the
community and a few vocal Councillors. I'm sure it is a good
thing, but we don't really have an understanding of what
sustainability really means, and how to implement it. As a
result, we seem to be going around in circles…..we don't even
know where to start!"
"My Council likes to think it's sustainable, but it seems
to take a slow and disorganised approach to implementing its
sustainability-related programs. We have a team of people
working on an environmental management system and a
sustainability framework for the organisation, and they
recently showed us a diagram of how the whole thing will work.
It was so confusing - it might as well have been in
hieroglyphics! Can't we make it simpler?"
"Our environmental guys talk about being on the right track
with our environmental and sustainability programs. They are
focused on building this triple bottom line stuff into our
everyday operations. It sounds good, but has created so much
more work for us. For example, we have to comment on the
associated 'environmental, social and economic' aspects of an
issue in every single business paper that goes to Council.
Isn't that just overkill? Can't we make this whole triple
bottom line thing more practical and workable?"
"We want to do the right thing environmentally, but just
don't have the staff. Our strategic planner has taken on the
role of managing our strategic environmental issues, but she
barely has the time to do anything proactive. We seem to spend
all our time on the back foot, addressing problems after they
occur. Isn't there a way we can get more organised and
proactive, without having to employ more staff or spend more
money?"
"We have developed this State of the Environment Report
that contains a lot of information, but I am not sure how much
of it is actually relevant to us. Shouldn't an SoE Report be a
practical tool we can refer to regularly to track our
performance? Ours seems to be a document that sits on the
shelf and gathers dust!"
"We had this group come and talk to us about
sustainability. Most of what they spoke about was 'pie in the
sky' type of stuff. We are past hearing about the theory…..we
want to know how to become a sustainable organisation in real,
practical terms. What on-the-ground change do we need to be
doing right here, right now?"
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