Sustainability Report 2005-2006
Department of the Environment and Water Resources, 2007
Social Performance
Community
SO1, SO4: Community impacts
Goals 2005-06
During 2005-06 promote the use of appropriate leave for volunteer work
Performance 2005-06 and trends
DEH staff participated in a variety of volunteering activities during work hours in 2005-06. Some examples include:
- staff tree planting at sites near Canberra, including some bushfire regeneration plantings
- Red Cross blood donations
- Clean Up Australia Day
- Red Nose Day
- Jeans for Genes Day
- World’s Biggest Morning Tea
- National Families Week activities (Bronze Award recipient)
- Oxfam Trailwalker fundraiser
- Heart Week.
The completion of the new Certified Agreement for 2006-09 included the retention and promotion of appropriate leave for volunteer work. DEH received a Bronze Award during National Families Week for our initiatives on work/life balance.
Where DEH operations take place alongside local communities, such as at remote National Parks sites, consultation takes place with those local communities as standard practice. Co-management of Parks with Indigenous people assists in negotiating the community impacts and contributions of our operations. In our policy development work, such as on fisheries or biodiversity issues, regular consultations are held with local communities likely to be affected by our work. Good consultation is a requirement of the Australian Government system for policy development and regulatory impact assessment.
Commentary
Volunteer leave is a subcategory of personal leave, so while examples of corporate volunteering can be identified, a precise number of work hours or participating staff cannot be produced. DEH does not have a formal policy on corporate volunteering.
Goals 2006-2007
- Continue to provide staff with access to leave to undertake volunteer work.
Contents
- Sustainability Report 05-06
- Executive summary
- Vision and strategy
- Our organisation
- Governance
- Policy and influence
- Environmental performance
- Social performance
- Economic performance
- Report assurance statement
- Case studies
- GRI index
Key
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