When focusing upon energy reduction on site, a training programme should be designed to focus mainly upon:
- Making one person on site fully responsible for energy efficiency- this gives it a higher
profile. Consideration here should be given to:
- Responsibility not only for energy efficiency but for monitoring costs and consumption of all
energy used.
- Give this key person full management backing.
- Provision of training to key members of personnel- when implementing any energy efficiency
members, a company should not take it for granted that staff understand techniques and measures
without relevant training being given.
- Key members of staff need to be identified (see below)
- Individual and company training needs should be identified and inserted upon an environmental
skills matrix. and schedule training programmes.
- Undertake preliminary training followed by refresher training when necessary.
- Regularly review the effects of energy training against energy data from monitoring.
- Identification of key personnel that can help conserve energy-
- In a great deal of companies, energy efficiency strategies are held back due to lack of time-
effective improvements in conserving energy derive from identification of those employees that will
be most effective in reducing energy consumption, such as people responsible for buildings, equipment
and buildings. (For example, supervisors, production managers and maintenance). Consideration
should also be given to:
- Other members of staff who are not immediately obvious such as security staff and caretakers.
- Prioritising the involvement of key members of staff in energy efficiency through, for example:
team-building.
- Continuous promotion of the advantages of energy efficiency to all employees-
- In implementing energy efficiency on site, all employees should be involved to some degree.
- Interest amongst all employees will be cemented through regularly reporting on the company s
performance in this area and possibly introducing incentives and rewards.
- All staff should be aware of the benefits energy efficiency.
- General staff meetings should be used to communicate good energy efficiency practices such as improved housekeeping (switching off equipment and lights when not in use; closing doors and windows when the heating is on etc.)
- Post updates on bulletin boards.
- Promote energy efficiency through as many means as possible (including posters, videos best practice booklets etc).
- Staff suggestion schemes should be considered
- All staff should be encouraged to offer energy efficiency suggestions through implementation of a staff suggestion scheme.
- Ideas should always be discussed with individual, key members of staff.
- Incentives could be given to staff for good housekeeping practices- this could include a percentage share of the savings, or an improvement in facilities.
- New members of staff should be trained in company energy policy and improvements:
- All new members of personnel should be made fully aware of the company s commitment to reducing energy and that this is included in all staff inductions.
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