System - Commitment

Sustainable Food Guide

PLEDGE

REVIEW

POLICY

INVOLVE

TARGET

IMPLEMENT

CHECK

PROMOTE

Issues

ENVIRONMENT
Climate Change
Energy Efficiency
Organic Produce
Pesticide Use
Fish
Water

SOCIAL
Fair Trade
Social Audit
Local Sourcing

ECONOMIC
BSE Lessons
Hormones
Antibiotics
Additives
Internal Operations

ALL
Hygiene
Health & Nutrition
Animal Welfare
GM Debate

Commitment...

Commitment is more than 'What a good idea, let's do it'. To develop a system that works you will need time, money, resources, responsibility and employee training. The policy is the driver behind what you want to achieve and demonstrates to others, both inside and outside, your organisation that you have the willingness to change.

Task:

Check- What of the following do you have?

Dedicated budget - there may be some costs involved
Time - you will need dedicated time to work on your system
Responsibilities - you wont be able to delegate everything to others
Training - employees will need some training
Responses - senior management will need to respond to your needs and findings
Communication - across the organisation so everyone knows what and why
Participation - actively encourage involvement of others

You will need to work out how commited the organisation is and how much senior management are prepared to invest. This will help you to determine the scale of what you can realistically achieve. It is better to attempt the achievable and build on the successes than to loose incentive through constraints that are out of your control.

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