CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operations

1 CHC Community ServicesTraining PackageParticipant GuideVersion 1 Training and Education SupportIndustry Skills UnitMeadowbankProduct Code: 5798 CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operations CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operations TAFE NSW (Training & Education Support Industry Skills Unit, Meadowbank) 2014 AcknowledgmentsThe TAFE NSW Training and Education Support Industry Skills Unit, Meadowbank would like to acknowledge the support and assistance of the following people in the production of this learner resource guide:Writer:Sarah Murray ConsultantContributor:Lisa WallmeyerReviewer:Catherine Lee Director The Point Pre-school NSWP roject Manager:Gail Horwood A/Education Programs Manager TAFE NSWD esktop Publishing:Joanna Santos TAFE NSWE nquiriesEnquiries about this and other publications can be made to: T raining and Education Support Industry Skills Unit, Meadowbank Meadowbank TAFE Le vel 3, Building J, See Street, MEADOWBANK NSW 2114 Tel: 02-9942 3200 Fax: 02-9942 3257 Further acknowledgmentsA considerable amount of the material in this learner resource has been developed from the following TAFE NSW resource: CHCPR515A Develop and implement a program to support sustainable practice - participant guide (2009).

2 ISBN: 978 1 74236 506 0 The State of New South Wales, Department of Education and Training, TAFE NSW, Training and Education Support Industry Skills Unit, Meadowbank, of this material is reserved to TAFE NSW Training and Education Support Industry Skills Unit, Meadowbank. Reproduction or transmittal in whole or in part, other than for the purposes of private study or research, and subject to the provisions of the Copyright Act, is prohibited without the written authority of, TAFE NSW. Training and Education Support Industry Skills Unit, Meadowbank CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operations TAFE NSW (Training & Education Support Industry Skills Unit, Meadowbank) 2014 Special Thanks to the following Early Childhood Services for sharing their stories and photos.

3 All Stars Early Learning Centre, Botany, NSW Bonnyrigg Public School Preschool, Bonnyrigg, NSW Brookvale Children s Centre, Warringah Council, NSW Clovelly Child Care Centre, Clovelly, NSW Como West Public School, Como West, NSW Corrimal Children s Centre, Illawarra Children s Services, NSW Gumnut Kidz Kindergarten, Camden, NSW Gymea Bay Care and Leisure Centre, Gynmea Bay, NSW Kenny Street Children s Centre, Illawarra Children s Services, NSW KU Randwick/Coogee Preschool, Randwick, NSW Meadowbank TAFE NSW Playsession, NSW Moverley Children s Centre, Randwick City Council, NSW Playsession@ TAFE NSW - New England Institute Armidale Campus, NSW The Point Preschool, Oyster Bay, NSW CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operations TAFE NSW (Training & Education Support Industry Skills Unit, Meadowbank) 2014 Table of contentsIntroduction.

4 91. General introduction.. 92. Using this participant guide .. 93. Prior knowledge and experience .. 114. Unit of competency overview .. 115. Assessment .. 12 Section 1: What is sustainability?.. 13 Aspects of sustainability .. 16 environmental sustainability ..16 Social sustainability ..16 Economic sustainability ..16 History of sustainability.. 18 The impact of key global issues.. 24 Climate change ..24 Greenhouse effect ..26 Ecological footprint ..29 Earth resources ..31 Waste ..41 Chemicals ..43 Biodiversity ..46 Intergenerational equity and equitable sharing of resources.. 49 Equitable sharing of resources ..49 Intergenerational equity.

5 62 Section summary .. 62 Section 2: Potential aspects for change in children s services.. 65 sustainable building design and associated structural aspects .. 65 sustainable waste management practices .. 72 sustainable water management practices .. 75 sustainable energy management practices .. 76 Safer cleaning practices .. 77 Indoor air quality and VOCs.. 89 Safer personal care and cosmetic products.. 91 The natural environment in outdoor spaces .. 93 CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operations TAFE NSW (Training & Education Support Industry Skills Unit, Meadowbank) 2014 Food and produce .. 107 Biodiversity.. 112 Section summary .. 113 Section 3: Nature education: strategies to increase children s experiences and understanding of animals and the natural environment.

6 115 Gardening and biodiversity .. 122 Frogs and tadpoles.. 124 Appreciating the texture, tones and shapes of nature .. 127 Excursions.. 129 Wildlife .. 131 Waste .. 135 Water.. 139 Aboriginal connections .. 142 Resources .. 146 Ethical dilemmas .. 157 Use of food for play ..157 Water play ..158 Budget constraints ..159 Health concerns related to the reuse of some materials ..162 Parent/carer expectations may conflict with sustainable practices ..162 Section summary .. 163 Section 4: Implementing workplace changes to enhance environmental sustainability .. 165 Drivers for behavioural change.. 167 Change agents and leadership skills ..167 Knowledge and awareness.

7 174 Expressed values and role modelling behaviours ..175 Barriers to behavioural change.. 177 Section summary .. 180 Section 5: Design and implement a program to support sustainability .. 1811. Pr eparation .. 1832. Philosophy and policy review.. 1943. Conduct sustainability audits .. 1964. De velop a sustainability plan .. 1985. Implement the plan.. 2036. E valuate the plan.. 203 Section summary .. 205 CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operations TAFE NSW (Training & Education Support Industry Skills Unit, Meadowbank) 2014 Conclusion.. 207 References.. 209 Resources .. 213 Resource evaluation form .. 259 CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operations TAFE NSW (Training & Education Support Industry Skills Unit, Meadowbank) 2014 TAFE NSW (TES, Industry Skills Unit Meadowbank) 2014 Page 13 of 262 CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operationsSection 1: What is sustainability?

8 Educators are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of sustainability in early childhood and school-aged settings. By ensuring these settings follow sustainability policies and practices educators can actively contribute to conserving the Earth s resources. Of equal importance is the role they can play in developing sustainability knowledge, attitudes and values in the children that attend these settings. In so doing they can ensure a sustainable future for those that follow. Young children are capable and resourceful and able to make decisions that do impact on their own lives and the lives of others . As educators the messages we give children about sustainability will impact on their well being, their play, their thoughts, their relationships, their ability to connect with nature, their desire to explore, discover and curiosity to learn; their sense of wonder in this amazing planet and all its creatures and people and their ability to care and make decisions that have positive Carson (1956) believes if a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and the mystery of the world we live in.

9 We can be that one adult .Catherine Lee, Director The Point Preschool Oyster Bay NSW (2010) Page 14 of 262 TAFE NSW (TES, Industry Skills Unit Meadowbank) 2014 CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operationsThere are a range of available definitions of sustainability . Some of these are recorded definitions To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish .Webster Dictionary (1913) Sustainability is defined as meeting the needs of current and future generations through simultaneous environmental , social and economic improvement . State Sustainability Strategy (Western Australia) sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

10 Brundtland Commission of the United Nations (1987) Using, conserving and enhancing the community s resources so that ecological processes, on which life depends, are maintained, and the total quality of life, now and in the future, can be increased . Ecologically sustainable Development Steering Committee 1992 In my view, sustainable is like pregnant: it s not possible to be a little bit pregnant, and a society is either sustainable or unsustainable . Mr Gordon Hocking Development without destruction Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit TAFE NSW (TES, Industry Skills Unit Meadowbank) 2014 Page 15 of 262 CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operationsActivityChoose the definition of sustainability/ sustainable development that appeals to you the most or research your your own words describe what you think this means.