Economic Sustainability 
Economic Sustainability Indicator
An indicator which can be used to help better understand how sustainability can be practiced and evaluated. A range of examples included within this document include:
• Direct Maintenance Costs,
• Indirect (Overhead) Costs,
• Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees or Staff,
• Total Maintenance Input,
• Total Net Service Cost,
Education and Learning: Worker Engagement
A Social Sustainability Indicator which might also be referred to as Employee Quality Rating or included within it. Providing an environment in which regular, continuous education and learning is undertaken by workers can help towards creating a motivated workforce, progression opportunities, new ideas, improving business processes and procedures and helping to provide a more stable and committed workforce, contributing to a more sustainable, viable business. This might be measured by the percentage of workers engaged in education and learning per year, ensuring all workers have some form of
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Embedded Resources
Resources that are hidden, or embedded, within a product or service. The use or consumption of product will often provide the visible aspect of a resource, for example, the amount of energy and related emissions used to power a machine. However, the processes involved in the manufacture and distribution of a product have limited visibility to the end user. The negative impacts processes can have on the environment are often not accounted, unless a life cycle assessment is carried out.
A range of resources might be embedded within a product, especially CO2 emissions from energy production a
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Employee Environmental Concerns
A Social Sustainability Indicator.
• Brief Description: An aggregated, combined qualitative and quantitative measure that looks at how well an organisation supports and responds to the concerns of employees regards the environmental impact of workplace activities.
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Employee Quality Rating
A Social Sustainability Indicator.
• Brief Description: An aggregated qualitative measure of the qualifications, current skills, training, CPD programme, competence of employees or staff involved in the maintenance and management of a service. This indicator can be representative of a skilled and dynamic organisation.
Employee Safety Concerns
A Social Sustainability Indicator.
• Brief Description: An aggregated, combined qualitative and quantitative measure that looks at how empathetic, responsible and effectively an employee thinks their organisation takes their concerns for safety within the workplace. How well are these safety concerns met and addressed?
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Employee Well-being
A Social Sustainability Indicator.
• Brief Description: A mostly qualitative measure that looks at how well an organisation supports the well-being of an employee.
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Employment Benefits
A Sustainability Indicator, especially a socially focused one, but which often includes economic and environmental aspects.
• Brief Description: This might be a quality rating as well as being quantitively based. Encouraging workers into an organisation and then retaining them will often require a range of benefits. Economic benefits might be subsided health care, childcare, gym memberships, contributions towards the purchase or running of a car, provision of a car – especially electric vehicles, discounted travel (for example on trains or buses), regular education and training course fundin
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Environmental Condition
The state of the environment, often represented as a defined characteristic or range of characteristics (along with supporting data), at a stated point in time.