ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Environmental management is a set of activities, means and techniques aimed at conserving the elements of ecosystems and the ecological relationships between them, especially when changes occur due to the impact of man. Environmental management translates into the allocation of the material, economic and human resources necessary and concrete for the achievement of environmental quality standards or levels.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN THE COMPANY
- An environmental management system is the work that an organization follows in order to achieve, in the first phase, and to subsequently maintain, a certain behavior in accordance with the goals that have been set and in response to standards, some environmental risks, and pressures, both social and financial, economic, competitive and constantly changing. Environmental management in the company must be developed based on its principles and philosophies, which allows it to carry and achieve established environmental objectives, prior to be set the corporate environmental policy.
ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES
- Use of resources, attending to rates that are acceptable to the environment. Locate activities in territories and ecosystems with a high capacity to host them. Avoid that the emission of effluents in an activity exceeds the capacity of reception or assimilation of the environment.
IMPORTANT ASPECTS IN THE EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
- Evaluation, control and prevention of the repercussions of the company's activity on the various components of the environment. Management, saving and choice of energy. Management, saving and transportation of raw materials; water management and saving. Reduction, recycling, reuse, transport and elimination of waste. Evaluation, noise control inside and outside the activity. Selection of new production processes and changes in them. Product planning. Results of environmental practices contractors, subcontractors and suppliers. Prevention and reduction of discharges into the environment. Urgent procedures in case of environmental accidents. Information and training of staff on environmental issues. External information on issues related to the environment.
MAIN FUNCTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
- PLANNING: It leads to the establishment of goals and objectives and the setting of strategies to achieve them. Planning sets the course for the organization's environmental protection programs. ORGANIZATION: pursues the establishment of an organizational structure, definition of roles, responsibilities and authority. The organization provides the basis for effectively directing the resources allocated to the environmental management system. APPLICATION:determines the results that the organization will obtain based on its environmental behavior, that is, the established environmental management system. The management application facilitates the initial mechanisms, creates the necessary work environment, including motivation, delegation and priority setting. CONTROL: constitutes the necessary framework to evaluate the results obtained, identify the actions carried out, diagnose problems and initiate corrective measures and improve the established management system. Control is an essential requirement to prevent the business organization from separating itself from its goals and deviating from its environmental objectives.
INSTRUMENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
- Preventive: They are put into practice when new plans, projects or activities are approached. Corrective: they are applied to activities in operation. Auxiliary: They play the role of tool or technical resources so that the first two can be developed effectively.
