ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
The Environmental Management System (SGA) is part of the general system
of management of the enterprise; an isolated SGA and not integrated by
the rest of the organization it would not develop a role with effectiveness.
The SGA can be described like the complex of:
- managerial actions planned and coordinated,
operational procedures,
- systems of documentation and recording,
implemented from:
- a specific organizational structure, gifted
of resources and credibility, and with defined responsibility,
and addressed to the:
- prevention of the negative effects
(risks of accidents for the workers, for communities and for the surrounding
environment, losses of production, wastes, etc.), and
- to the promotion of activity that maintains
and/or improves the environmental quality.
Particularly SGA has the purpose to help the enterprise:
- to identify and to appraise probability and
dimension of the risks set to the enterprise from the environmental
problems;
- to appraise like the activities of the enterprise
affect the environment and like these can create problems for the own
businesses;
- to define the principles of base that must
drive the approach of the enterprise to his environmental responsibilities;
- to establish to short, middle, long term objectives
of environmental performance balancing costs and benefits;
- to appraise the necessary resources to achieve
these objectives, assigning for them relative responsibilities and establishing
the consequent resources;
- to elaborate specific procedures to assure that
every employee operates in his activity in way to contribute to minimize
or to eliminate the possible negative impact on the environment of the
enterprise;
- to communicate responsibility and instructions
to the varied levels of the organization and to form the employees for
a great efficiency;
- to measure the performances with reference
to the preset standards and the objectives, and to introduce the necessary
changes;
- to effect the inside and external communication
of the results achieved with the purpose to motivate all the persons
involved toward great results.
The definition and the terms here employees to describe SGA
do reference the existing models applied from the most advanced firms
in environmental field, to the emergent standards, gathering the essential
aspects of it, even if the terms can assume different meanings more or
less from model to model.
The principal sources are traceable in:
- ICC "Business Charter for Sustainable Development"
- BS 7750
- ISO 14001
- Rule CEE/761/2001 on ecomanagement and ecoaudit
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