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A list of downloadable resources, from information for participants, to workshop slides, facilitator notes and activities to use with your team.

SAP resource efficiency tool 1: Euphemisms for Waste

In all walks of life we have euphemisms for waste and wasting, preferring to call it almost anything else.  See if the team can add to our list of euphemisms.

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SAP resource efficiency tool 2: Inputs-outputs

Each area of activity must be analysed so its impacts on the planet can be seen.  The illustration below shows an operating theatre.  The first step is to identify what goes in and what comes out.

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SAP resource efficiency tool 3: Lean questionnaire for staff

Gather ideas from other staff on how the unit can improve its use of natural resources.

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SAP resource efficiency tool 4: Developing a process flow

A major hospital may have 360+ budget-holding departments, many of which are interlinked to produce a process.  For example if we follow a patient through an operation it may involve the ward, porters, reception area, anaesthetics, theatre, recovery, and return to ward.  Our purpose in doing a process flow is to highlight the activity as a carbon-using, carbon-wasting machine, to see

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SAP resource efficiency tool 5: Opportunity spotting

Ask the team to imagine going walk-about in their workplace and tick the boxes for all the items of possible carbon waste they can identify.

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SAP resource efficiency tool 6: Collecting data

You need to record measurables in a way that will enable you to make use of the data in the next stages.  This table is to be copied if you wish, or you may find it easier to make a spreadsheet with these headings – see Tool 7.

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SAP resource efficiency tool 7: Progress spreadsheet

A single spreadsheet to record progress on resource efficiency all in one place.

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SAP resource efficiency tool 8: Initial options and simple prioritising

Group and list possible actions for each issue before deciding which are most important.

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Prioritisation tool
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SAP resource efficiency tool 9: The 5 Whys

A classic "lean engineering" tool to get to the root causes of an issue.

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SAP resource efficiency tool 10: Where are we going?

Once you're team is up and running and the action plan is producing results, you can plot your progress on the climate change and carbon reduction matrix to see where you are on your sustainability journey.
 

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