Course Title: Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2010
Course Code: OHTH5461C
Course Title: Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
School: 350T Fashion & Textiles
Campus: Brunswick Campus
Program: C6086 - Advanced Diploma of Fashion and Textiles Merchandising
Course Contact : Carmen Pricone
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 9138
Course Contact Email:carmen.pricone@rmit.edu.au@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Patricia Brien: patricia.brien@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 40
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
This unit covers the outcomes required to effectively analyse the workplace in relation to environmentally sustainable work practices and to implement improvements and monitor their effectiveness.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
MSAENV472A Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices |
Element: |
1. Investigate current practices in relation to resource usage. |
Performance Criteria: |
Performance Criteria: 1.1 Identify environmental regulations applying to the enterprise. |
Learning Outcomes
In this unit you will be required to develop the skills and knowledge to address processes and techniques necessary to implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices, including the development of processes and tools.
It includes:
• Indentifying areas for improvement
• Developing plans to make improvements
• Implementing and monitoring improvements in environmental performance
Details of Learning Activities
- Environmental Assessment Audit,
- assessing ethical workplace criteria,
- current sustainability theories in relation to fashion industry and retail environment,
- hands-on workshop in creative design & recycling.
Teaching Schedule
Week 1:
Introduction to unit.
Assessment Requirements.
Film: An Inconvenient Truth
Week 2:
Lecture: Approaches to Sustainability
People, Planet, Profit (Triple Bottom Line)
Cradle to Cradle principles
Life Cycle Assessments
Assignment hand out: Individual Presentations
Week 3:
Fashion & Sustainable possibilities.
Sustainability and the consumer
Marketing sustainability: Green washing & transparency in relation to the Trade Practices Act
(Individual Presentations)
Week 4:
Reduce, reuse and recycle (+ rethink):
Waste management strategies, waste disposal & resource efficiency issues.
The global textile recycling chain.
Precycling, packaging & Design strategies
Reducing the impact of use-phase
Assignment hand out: Workshop – Lifeline & RMIT
(Individual Presentations)
Week 5:
Re-Design: Reduce, reuse, & recycle
Workshop: Creative design possibilities.
Week 6:
Ethics & Fashion Production
Film: China Blue + Discussion
(Individual Presentations)
Week 7:
Ethics & Fashion Production
Human Rights and Workers Rights Issues in the industry
Auditing for Ethics – (Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production - W.R.A.P.)
Fairtrade principles, Corporate Social Responsibility models
Ethical Fashion organizations & crediting organisations
Outworkers and fair wages & conditions
(Individual Presentations)
Week 8:
Ethics & Fashion Production
Film: The dollar a day dress
Guest speaker: Ethical Clothing Australia
Week 9:
Lecture - Fibres & sustainability:
Manufactured fibres, Natural Fibres and Fibre ‘alternatives’.
New textiles and Fabric Technologies.
(Individual Presentations)
Week 10:
Lecture - Innovations in Production
Fashion on Demand & Mass customisation
Principles of Biomimicry in design.
(Individual Presentations)
Environmental Management Systems (Group Research)
Standardising Environmental Factors in Fashion manufacturing
ISO 14001 (+ ISO 19011)
Assignment: Environmental Management Systems Audit Presentation
Week 11:
Environmental Management Systems (Group Research)
ISO 14001 Audit research
(Individual Presentations)
MID-TERM BREAK
Week 12:
Environmental Management Systems
ISO 14001: Presentation of Audit Findings (Group Research).
Week 13:
Retail Environment & Sustainability
Assignment: Bardot (Group Research)
(Individual Presentations)
Week 14:
Assignment Research: Bardot (Group Research)
Week 15:
Rethinking Fast: Slow Fashion/Slow Design
Local and/or Global/ Bioregionalism
Traditional craftsmanship including drapery
User-Creator possibilities
Design-led alternatives, multifunctional clothes
Degrees of Sustainability?
(Individual Presentations)
Due: Bardot Assignment Report
Week 16:
NO CLASS (MAJOR BARDOT PRESENTATIONS)
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Recommended texts: Sustainable Fashion & Textiles Design Journeys, Kate Fletcher |
Other Resources
Recommended reading:
Slow Living, Perkins
Cradle to Cradle, McDonough & Braungart
Sustainable Fashion: Why Now? Janet Hethorn & Connie Ulasewicz
Designers, visionaries & other stories, A collection of sustainable design essays, Jonathan Chapman & Nick Grant
Environmental Management Systems: A Step by Step Guide to Implementation and Maintenance, Christopher Sheldon & Mark Yoxon
Biomimicry, Janine M. Benyus
Bioregional Solutions: For living on one planet, Pooran Desai
Modern Environmentalism: An Intro, David Pepper
Sustainability by Design: A subversive strategy for transforming our consumer culture, John Ehrenfeld
Overview of Assessment
Detailed course and assessment requirements and information will be made available to you first week of class. Specific details will be explained to you during scheduled classes.
This course comprises both practical and theory components. You will be expected to attend and participate in class activities.
As well as class activities you will be required to undertake research and assessment practice outside of regular class times and participate in formal assessment tasks.
PLEASE NOTE: work that has not been authenticated during class as your own work will not be considered for assessment.
Assessment Tasks
- 1. Individual Presentation (40%)
2. EMS audit presentation (Group work) (20%) 3. Participation in Creative Design & Recycling workshop (Lifeline & RMIT Re-Design logo & poster – in pairs) (20%) - 4. Bardot Project Report (Group work) (20%)
Assessment Matrix
Workshop: Creative Design (20%) |
EMS audit presentation (group) (20%) | Bardot project Report (20%) | Individual Presentation (40%) |
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Investigate current practices in relation to resource usage. | X | X | ||
Set targets for improvements | X | X | ||
Implement performance improvement strategies. | X | |||
Monitor performance. | X |
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