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Sustainable Food Guide
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 Tour 3...

Vocational - Across the top are the headings of a classic quality system. This sets out simple steps to follow to implement a system at work that promotes sustainable food in your organisation.

The steps here are based on a system, similar to' quality' system, familiar to many at work. The fundamental steps are: Plan-Do-Check-Act. More). In more detail, you can follow the top tool bar:

Review: Find out what you are already doing

Policy: Develop the commitment of the organisation into a statement of intent

Involve: Involve and enable people to contribute

Target: Set acheivable targets for people to see and aim for

Implement: Introduce procedures to effect change

Check: Measure and monitor progress & 

Promote: Tell others

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At each of these stages, we identify not just the managers role, but also that for skilled workers and supervised employees. These correspond to the levels used in vocational qualifications.

Click to see how this system enables us to identify learning and skills needed for sustainable food. For morepop up: UK Government action on Sustainable Food & Farming.

Once you have got the hang of working out things to do at work, you will see many more opportunities than we can see, as you are in the best place.

As a starting point, you may like to make a "pledge" as a broad statement of intent.

  

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